Air Command & Control (C2) Network SME

Wood River Federal; California (MO); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood River Federal is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to support Marine Corps and affiliated program offices. The role includes leading technical teams, defining engineering activities, mentoring staff, and delivering solutions across Air C2 systems such as CAC2S, CTN, and TBMCS.

Qualifications include five years in systems engineering, a bachelor’s degree in engineering, and hands-on work with Wireshark and network analysis.

Qualifications

• Five years’ experience as a systems engineer.
• Two years’ experience performing engineering, software development, testing, or system administration of Air C2 systems such as CAC2S, CTN, or TBMCS.

Responsibilities

• Leads and provides guidance to teams in the provision of technical support and expertise for test, engineering, and training efforts related to Air C2 systems such as CAC2S, CTN, or TBMCS.
• Defines, organizes, and assigns activities to accomplish engineering and testing efforts.
• Provides technical mentoring to individuals and teams.
• Develops, integrates, and implements solutions to diverse, highly complex technical problems across multiple areas and disciplines.
• Develops and presents briefings as required.
• Documents technical status, progress, and problems encountered during test and engineering events.
• Interacts independently and proactively with customers to identify and define complex problems and to develop and implement strategies or techniques for resolving technical issues.

Skills

Systems engineering

CAC2S

CTN

TBMCS

Wireshark

Network analysis

VMware ESXi

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows Server

Active Directory

Cisco routing and switching

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

N/A

Job description

Position Description

This support is provided to Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) and Program Executive Office Land Systems (PEO LS) Program Managers and extends to other organizations, such as Marine Forces Cyber Command, Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity, Naval Air Warfare Command, Special Operations Command, as well as direct support to the Fleet Marine Forces (FMF). The MCTSSA technical workforce is comprised of civilians and active‑duties Marines, with educational backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and information technology.

This support is provided to Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) and Program Executive Office Land Systems (PEO LS) Program Managers and extends to other organizations, such as Marine Forces Cyber Command, Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity, Naval Air Warfare Command, Special Operations Command, as well as direct support to the Fleet Marine Forces (FMF). The MCTSSA technical workforce is comprised of civilians and active‑duties Marines, with educational backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and information technology.

Minimum Position Requirements

• Five years’ experience as a systems engineer.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or related field.
• Two years’ experience performing engineering, software development, testing, or system administration of Air C2 systems such as CAC2S, CTN, or TBMCS.
• 1-2 years experience with Wireshark and network analysis

Desired Position Qualifications

• Experience administering VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Windows Server Operating Systems.
• Experience in Microsoft Active Directory.
• Working knowledge of network administration and troubleshooting of Cisco routing and switching.
• CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional.

Tasks

• Leads and provides guidance to teams in the provision of technical support and expertise for test, engineering, and training efforts related to Air C2 systems such as CAC2S, CTN, or TBMCS.
• Defines, organizes, and assigns activities to accomplish engineering and testing efforts.
• Provides technical mentoring to individuals and teams.
• Develops, integrates, and implements solutions to diverse, highly complex technical problems across multiple areas and disciplines.
• Develops, reviews, writes, or provides technical input to technical test and engineering documents.
• Develops and presents briefings as required.
• Documents technical status, progress, and problems encountered during test and engineering events.
• Interacts independently and proactively with customers to identify and define complex problems and to develop and implement strategies or techniques for resolving technical issues.
• Works with customers to evaluate and analyze technical requirements and test objectives to develop plans to test these requirements and objectives.
• Identifies, plans, allocates, and optimizes resources to complete multiple project related tasks and goals.
• Manages and maintains equipment and configurations in the test and engineering labs.
• Effectively accomplishes multiple project goals within established guidelines.
• Works with MIL-STDs to perform data analysis and provide input for test reports
• Uses Wireshark for network analysis of bandwidth, data exchanges, and troubleshooting and provides the analysis for test reports.
• Uses simulation tools for MIL-STD message formats (Link 16, VMF etc.)

Security Clearance Requirements

Top Secret

Travel Requirements

Travel is anticipated to be 10% - 15% within the Continental United States and 5%-10% outside the Continental United States