Ground Enterprise Mission Systems Engineer

SAIC•Chantilly, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Ground Enterprise Mission Systems Engineer to support its Prime Program, Landmark AOS in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program, supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

Requirements

Support end-to-end analysis of mission system outages
Synthesize technical data from multiple sources
Produce accurate, time-sensitive situational reports
Consolidate system telemetry, operator logs, and engineering inputs
Identify root causes, mission impacts, and restoration timelines
Evaluate operational degradations and outages
Determine mission impact, cross-mission dependencies, and risk
Coordinate with subsystem engineers, operations crews, and mission partners
Validate impact assessments
Ensure enterprise-wide awareness
Aggregate and normalize data from disparate monitoring tools, ticketing systems, and mission platforms
Create unified operational views
Produce daily, weekly, and event-driven operational reports
Ensure clarity, accuracy, and alignment with enterprise reporting standards
Deliver concise executive summaries
Highlight trends, risks, and recommended actions
Serve as a central coordination point during mission system incidents
Ensure timely information flow between engineering teams, operations centers, and leadership
Track incident timelines
Document key decisions
Maintain authoritative status of ongoing events
Support configuration management, requirements traceability, and technical baseline updates
Conduct long-term trend analysis on outages, degradations, and system performance
Identify systemic issues and propose corrective actions
Develop process improvements that streamline reporting workflows
Increase accuracy and timeliness
Partner with mission operations, development contractors, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise service providers
Ensure consistent reporting and shared situational awareness
Facilitate technical exchanges
Align operational reporting with evolving mission needs and enterprise architectures
Maintain detailed documentation of reporting processes, outage analyses, and operational procedures

Responsibilities

Support end-to-end analysis of mission system outages across the NRO Ground Enterprise, synthesizing technical data from multiple sources to produce accurate, time-sensitive situational reports for senior leadership.
Consolidate system telemetry, operator logs, and engineering inputs to identify root causes, mission impacts, and restoration timelines.
Evaluate operational degradations and outages to determine mission impact, cross-mission dependencies, and risk to critical intelligence collection.
Coordinate with subsystem engineers, operations crews, and mission partners to validate impact assessments and ensure enterprise-wide awareness.
Aggregate and normalize data from disparate monitoring tools, ticketing systems, and mission platforms to create unified operational views.
Produce daily, weekly, and event-driven operational reports for NRO senior leadership, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with enterprise reporting standards.
Deliver concise executive summaries that highlight trends, risks, and recommended actions.
Serve as a central coordination point during mission system incidents, ensuring timely information flow between engineering teams, operations centers, and leadership.
Track incident timelines, document key decisions, and maintain authoritative status of ongoing events.
Support configuration management, requirements traceability, and technical baseline updates related to operational reporting tools and processes.
Conduct long-term trend analysis on outages, degradations, and system performance to identify systemic issues and propose corrective actions.
Develop process improvements that streamline reporting workflows and increase accuracy and timeliness.
Partner with mission operations, development contractors, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise service providers to ensure consistent reporting and shared situational awareness.
Facilitate technical exchanges that align operational reporting with evolving mission needs and enterprise architectures.
Maintain detailed documentation of reporting processes, outage analyses, and operational procedures to support audits, readiness reviews, and knowledge transfer.