Location
Silver Spring, MD | United States
Job description
Peraton is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to add to our distinguished team to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protects life and property.
LCAT: Systems Engineer Senior Technical Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Support system level engineering development to include software integration and test (I&T) activities for Satellite Ground Station Command and Control applications ensuring system compatibility to meet program technical, schedule and cost objectives. This includes developing and managing requirements supporting the integration of COTS-based systems and custom software, from the system design phase through development, documentation, installation, and commissioning of the completed system
- Generate segment and component level requirements to include verification approaches in all phases of development
- Familiar with Systems Engineering processes
- Generate test procedures for the validation and verification of software components to analyze requirements for integration and/or testability issues
- Support Requirements readiness reviews, formal system verification of the system requirements and final test reports
- Organize, execute, and report on software testing
- Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing and efficient use of resources
- Develop, review and execute component as well as segment level Test Engineering Duties
- Have a detailed understanding of the Requirements Lifecycle
- Utilize JIRA in an Agile development environment
- Support development and maintenance of automated testing
Required Qualifications:
- BS/BA in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Math, or related technical discipline or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 10-12 years of Systems Engineering, Integration and Test Engineering experience with BS/BA, 8-10 with MS and 5-7 with PhD
- Experience with Cloud Services such as:
- EC2
- S3
- EFS/EBS
- SNS/SQS
- AmazonMQ
- S3/SQS/AmazonMQ
- Amazon Aurora or RDS
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Extensive experience with Windows OS and Microsoft Office products
- Willing to learn new things
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Systems Engineering Tools (e.g., Rational DOORS)
- Familiar with the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira, Insight, Confluence, Risk Register, Crucible, Bitbucket, Git, etc.
- Familiar with working within a distributed virtual team environment, with proficiency in remote collaboration tools and practices
- Strong interpersonal skills with a willingness to foster strong relationships with coworkers and vendors
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to dynamically tailor communications effectively to different levels of the organization
- Reside near the Washington, DC area optimal but not required
ABOUT GAMA-1
GAMA-1 is a rapidly growing technology business that is based in Greenbelt, Maryland. GAMA-1 Technologies provides strategic information assurance, information security, and business enterprise and networking solutions to the Federal Government. Our success is based on the utilization of industry and agency standards, establishment of standardized processes, and IT Services expertise. At GAMA-1, we believe employees should grow, achieve, and develop just as the company grows, achieves, and develops. GAMA-1 is committed to providing our employees with opportunities for career advancement throughout their employment. For more information, visit
GAMA-1 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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