Space System Architecture Subject Matter Expert

RONIN Information Technology Services, LLC; Leesburg (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RONIN Information Technology Services, LLC is seeking a qualified candidate to provide multi-disciplinary engineering support for Air Force systems and procurement activities. Candidates should have 10-12 years of experience and a Top Secret clearance. Responsibilities include reviewing documentation and supporting system design evaluations, ensuring compliance with DoD policies.

Key skills include developing secure communications architectures and contributing to the USAF Airworthiness process.

Qualifications

• Must have 10-12 years of experience with large, complex classified procurements.
• Must maintain Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain SCI access.
• Experience establishing secure processing and communications architectures.

Responsibilities

• Support development and review of documentation required by DoDI 5000.02.
• Assist with execution of USAF Airworthiness process.
• Support requirements development, allocation, and verification.
• Analyze equipment and software performance deficiencies.
• Support development of contract changes and documentation updates.

Skills

10-12 years of progressive experience

Top Secret level clearance

Chief Engineer level engineering skills

Knowledge of DoD acquisition policies

Experience with open systems architecture standards

Job description

The candidate will provide multi-disciplinary engineering support and apply knowledge and experience in engineering principles, criteria, and procedures to Air Force systems, subsystems, and equipment procurement activities, post award project/program management tasks, and acquisition programs throughout their life cycles. The candidate will provide products and services as described below in execution of its engineering support mission. The candidate will apply their knowledge and experience to organize and manage resources and personnel needed to efficiently and effectively accomplish DoD acquisition objectives consistent with DoD 5000.02 policies and procedures.

Specifically, the candidate must have 10-12 years of progressive experience supporting and developing large, major, and complex classified procurement requirements, and maintain a Top Secret level clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access with Counterintelligence Polygraph. The candidate will provide services as described below to support DoD acquisition program management requirements.

The candidate will have Chief Engineer level engineering skills and credentials as well as knowledge and experience establishing, building, fielding, and sustaining secure, trusted, core processing and communications architectures to include: definition and development of open systems architecture standards; identification space system information assurance boundaries and definition and approval of security controls for each boundary consistent with the Intelligence Community Directive 503 Risk Management Framework; and development and coordination of comprehensive Space system interoperability requirements both internal to the system and externally to BMC2 elements.

Required Skills

• The candidate will support development and review of the full range of documentation and products required by DoDI 5000.02.
• The candidate will assist with execution of the USAF Airworthiness process per MILHDBK-516 and the AF Life-Cycle Systems Engineering (LCSE) and Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness (OSS&E) processes as prescribed by AFMCI 63-1201.
• The candidate will support implementation of Air Force Integrity Programs.
• The candidate will support requirements development, allocation, and verification.
• The candidate will support review and evaluation of DoD’s system design, analyses, and verification documentation and reports.
• The candidate will gather and develop technical and business data necessary to build and, as required, present program briefs.
• The candidate will support program meetings, working groups, and technical and business reviews as needed.
• The candidate will analyze equipment and software performance deficiencies and make recommendations for corrective actions.
• The candidate will support development of contract and documentation changes and updates.
• The candidate will support source selections in a technical advisory role as requested.