Cryptologic Architecture Systems Engineer

Peraton • Fort Meade, MD

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Cryptologic Architecture Systems Engineer for its Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, Maryland. The role supports a large enterprise-wide engineering contract within the Intelligence Community and requires 1,880 hours of support per year at a customer location.

The engineer provides integrated policy, operational, and executive staff support to the Unified Cryptologic Architecture (UCA) Senior Leadership Team. The position combines policy expertise and operational fluency to advance cross-agency coordination of combat support modernization initiatives, while supporting the organization's imperatives of Speed, Scale, Innovation, and Integration.

The role also supports the Government team with smart data, compliance, and operational skills; investigates data integrity and quality-control aspects of performance and mission-management data; maintains Confluence documentation for Metadata Access Control and Mission Management Data Integrity guidance and requirements; and reviews performance-metrics tools for data integrity and quality concerns. An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. Applicants selected are subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline and at least 20 years of systems engineering experience; a master’s degree or PhD may substitute for two years of experience.
• Alternatively, a high school diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience is acceptable.
• Good project management skills.
• Strong engineering and operations background.
• Good design and process-improvement skills.
• Proven experience serving as an action officer or equivalent staff role within a headquarters, combatant command, Joint Staff, or agency-level environment.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Nice To Haves

• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team to complete assigned tasks on schedule.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic work environment.
• Comfort guiding people without direct influence over them.

Responsibilities

• Provide integrated policy, operational, and executive staff support to the Unified Cryptologic Architecture Senior Leadership Team.
• Support cross-agency coordination of combat support modernization initiatives.
• Assist the Government team using smart data, compliance, and operational skills.
• Identify, document, and investigate data integrity and quality-control aspects of customer performance and mission-management data.
• Maintain a Confluence page documenting Metadata Access Control and Mission Management Data Integrity guidance and requirements for mission-management tools implementation.
• Assist the customer in reviewing performance-metrics tools to identify data integrity and quality concerns.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents.
• 25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
• Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life insurance.
• Health savings account.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).
• Parental leave.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off for vacation.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Depending on the position, eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior