Systems Engineer

We are seeking an experienced, results-oriented Systems Engineer with experience in Standards or Technical Specifications to join our team in the Bethesda, Maryland area. You will play a critical role in improving and maintaining our client's technical specification repository by applying structured systems engineering approaches.

Responsibilities include:

Technical Specification Management: Engage with stakeholders to understand the intent of technical specifications, analyze how those specifications will affect the IT architecture, and translate them into authoritative machine-readable formats. Perform this work using systems engineering and software development best practices.
• Tech Stack Conversion: Become familiar with the team's existing technical tools, then help implement the team's migration to a new set of technical tools.
• Mentoring: Guide a junior team member, helping them develop their technical skills

Basic Qualifications:
* Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
* Requires BS degree and 8 - 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain with 3+ years of experience.
* Ability to work on-site full-time in the Bethesda, Maryland area.
* Strong knowledge of standard software development processes, such as DevOps, requirements engineering, coding, documentation, configuration management, quality assurance, integration, and testing.
* Experience with structured analytic techniques, XML, DevOps tools, build and automation tools, software development kits (SDK), and common programming languages.
* Demonstrated ability to build code collaboratively in team environments, following agile or other standard methodologies.

Desired Qualifications:
* Experience using or managing standards or technical specifications.
* Master's degree in a relevant field.
* Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
* Familiarity with U.S. Government information sharing frameworks, policies, and interoperability requirements.
* Familiarity with system modeling and Unified Modeling Language (UML).

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.

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.