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Cyber Systems Engineer, Senior Advisor

2025-155248

CAtegory:

Cyber Security

Clearance:

Top Secret/SCI with Poly

Location:

Jessup
,
Maryland

Telecommute:

No remote/telework allowed
About Peraton

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.

Program Overview
Applies advanced computer science methods to create scalable solutions that address customer challenges, offering full life-cycle services from research to sustainment. Provides cyber defense through automated analytics for unique boundary protection using behavior and heuristic techniques.
About The Role

Peraton is seeking a System Engineer to be responsible for architectural design and development, end-to-end engineering of interfaces, both internal and external, and architectural level system engineering activities. Work will also include definition and management of system requirements and verification activities. The preferred candidate should be able to work and function in a dynamic environment where requirements can change according to the customer needs.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required with twenty (20) year’s experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and, complexity. Four (4) years of additional general engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
  • Multi-discipline background including both hardware and software development with experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Ability to objectively assess possible architectural limitations or shortcomings in areas such as scaling, speed, and throughput.
  • Knowledge of SIGINT mission systems.
  • Solid understanding of applicable commercial technologies and commercial best practices, as they relate to the specific demands of SIGINT.
  • Experience supporting system and S/W architecture, development, requirements analysis, design, process execution and evaluation, selections and evaluation of COTS/GOTS tools and test integration.
  • Experience working with networking protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4/6, etc. 
  • Familiarity with code development, test and configuration management tools.
  • Proficiency with Linux and with scripting in Perl.
  • Familiarity with XML/XSD, messaging and schemas. 

 

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $229,000 - $366,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

Employee Benefits

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.