Systems Development Engineer

Responsibilities

The Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) under NESDIS is responsible for advancing space weather observational capabilities to meet NOAA programmatic needs. NOAA's Space Weather Next (SWX) program maintains and extends space weather observations from various vantage points, selected to most efficiently provide comprehensive knowledge of the Sun and the near-Earth space environment needed to protect our technological infrastructure.

The Space Weather Ground Services (SWGS) is responsible for comprehensive ground services for all SWX projects, ensuring successful implementation and operation of observing assets and ensuring the continuity of space weather measurements made by SWFO-L1 and the GOES-R series satellites.

The SWGS Mission Operations Services (MOS) program must provide a full mission satellite command and control solution to support the L1 Series with two new independently launched observatories.

Peraton is seeking to hire a Systems Development Engineer to join this new SWGS-MOS program.

**This position is contingent on contract award.**

Responsibilities:

• Support system level engineering development to include a wide variety of engineering level artifacts to include; Interface Control Documentation, Design Documents and Requirements for the Ground System. Supporting 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 will be developed over time. End-to-end, 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 through all phases of development.
• Support generation of 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.
• Witness verification test events for the delivery of any/all new and updated requirements.
• 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 Life-cycle
• Utilize JIRA in an Agile development environment.
• Support and be familiar with architectural development of the ground system.

Qualifications

• Active Public Trust clearance
• BS/BA and a minimum of 5 years of experience,or MS/MA and a minimum of 3 years of experience. Equivalent years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Background level understanding of Cloud Services such as: EC2, S3, EFS/EBS, SNS/SQS, AmazonMQ, S3/SQS/AmazonMQ, Amazon Aurora or RDS
• Extensive experience with Windows OS and Microsoft Office products.
• 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 CAMEO (or related) architecture Design Tools that support Models Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

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Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.