Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

The CAF DMO 3.0 program, via its Distributed Mission Operations Network (DMON), provides world-class integration training in large force and small team formats to combat units around the globe against cutting-edge threats in a boundless virtual battlespace. The U.S. Air Force can only utilize its full capability against modern threats in a virtual environment. Be a part of that environment and continue to make the USAF the best air force in the world.

Responsibilities

• Support military simulation system and application integration, evaluation, and interoperability test to support DMON and JSE training operations.
• Use industry-standard tools for simulation test and evaluation to include Wireshark, simulation protocol analysis, and GFE and Commercial Computer Generated Forces (CGFs).
• Aid in detailed analysis of network and computational system performance including latency, bandwidth, jitter, and system occupancy measures.
• Develop and maintain test plans and procedures to document and drive test activities.
• Draft comprehensive test reports based on completed integration, test, evaluation, and verification tasks performed.
• Contribute to other areas of the engineering life cycle to include requirements review and assessment, training operations support, and basic system administration functions.
• Support program and team processes by using tools from the Atlassian Suite of products to include JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and X-Ray.
• Participate in peer reviews, test bed maintenance and updates, and programming, testing, and debugging activities.
• Write and maintain scripts and support application (PowerShell, Cygwin, VBasic, etc.) programs, to enable efficiencies in test artifact creation and task execution.
• Help identify production and non-production application issues, assist in developing solutions, and implement necessary changes.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in an applicable STEM curriculum (e.g., Data Analysis, System Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Physics, etc.) or similar.
• 8 years of engineering experience performing test, integration, SW development, or embedded systems engineering activities.
• Experience with military simulation integration test DIS IEEE1278.1 or HLA IEEE 1516 protocols, or similar communications or data protocols (SIP, VOIP, JREAP, etc.).
• The ability to obtain a TS/SCI and SAP/SAR.
• Experience supporting DoD customers and personnel in a technical capacity.
• Familiarity or experience with development, test and evaluation of military simulation training or operational systems.
• Must possess, or obtain within six months, a DoD 8140 IAT Level II or higher (i.e. Security+, CySA+, CISSP).

Qualifications

• To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have A bachelor’s degree in an applicable STEM curriculum (e.g., Data Analysis, System Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Physics, etc.) or similar.
• 8 years of engineering experience performing test, integration, SW development, or embedded systems engineering activities.
• Experience with military simulation integration test DIS IEEE1278.1 or HLA IEEE 1516 protocols, or similar communications or data protocols (SIP, VOIP, JREAP, etc.).
• The ability to obtain a TS/SCI and SAP/SAR.
• Experience supporting DoD customers and personnel in a technical capacity.
• Familiarity or experience with development, test and evaluation of military simulation training or operational systems.
• Must possess, or obtain within six months, a DoD 8140 IAT Level II or higher (i.e. Security+, CySA+, CISSP).

Skills

• Industry-standard tools for simulation test and evaluation (Wireshark, simulation protocol analysis, GFE, CGFs).
• Network and computational system performance analysis (latency, bandwidth, jitter, system occupancy measures).
• Test plan and procedure development.
• Test report drafting.
• CONOPS and COA development.
• Training operations support.
• System administration functions.
• Atlassian Suite tool usage (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, X-Ray).
• Script and application program writing (PowerShell, Cygwin, VBasic).
• Application issue identification, solution development, and change implementation.

Benefits

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have A bachelor’s degree in an applicable STEM curriculum (e.g., Data Analysis, System Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Physics, etc.) or similar. 8 years of engineering experience performing test, integration, SW development, or embedded systems engineering activities. Experience with military simulation integration test DIS IEEE1278.1 or HLA IEEE 1516 protocols, or similar communications or data protocols (SIP, VOIP, JREAP, etc.). The ability to obtain a TS/SCI and SAP/SAR. Experience supporting DoD customers and personnel in a technical capacity. Familiarity or experience with development, test and evaluation of military simulation training or operational systems. Must possess, or obtain within six months, a DoD 8140 IAT Level II or higher (i.e. Security+, CySA+, CISSP).