GEOINT Systems Engineer

We're hiring a Mid-Level Systems Engineer with hands-on experience across the full Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) lifecycle-from Architecture and Requirements to Integration, Testing, and Transition. You'll play a key role in driving enterprise transformation initiatives across GEOINT mission systems, with a focus on both mission outcomes and technical modernization.

The ideal candidate has an understanding of IT and cloud-based technologies, and familiarity with the GEOINT TCPED (Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination) architecture. You'll join a high-performing team working to modernize GEOINT enterprise architecture and deliver integrated mission capabilities.

As a member of the Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Division's Lead Integrator Team, you will:

Work alongside Expert and Senior Systems Engineers and Integrators to:

• Perform Architecture Gap Analyses, Enterprise Requirements Analysis, Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (COAs), and Trade Studies

• Develop recommendations to support strategic investment decisions, including system divestitures and consolidation

• Support integration across NGA Program Executive Offices (PEOs) to ensure activity alignment and accurate documentation of the enterprise baseline, including architecture, requirements, and interfaces

• Help define and maintain the Future State Enterprise Architecture

• Drive the allocation of requirements to systems, ensuring end-to-end traceability between requirements and architecture components

• Participate in cross-organizational Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) focused on:

  • Analytic modernization

  • Collection Management

  • Data Services

  • Foundation GEOINT

  • IT modernization

• Leverage NGA's Digital Engineering Environment to develop and maintain:

  • Integrated project plans and schedules

  • Requirements and epics

  • Target state architectures

  • Concepts of Operations (CONOPS)

  • Roadmaps

• Capture and translate mission and customer needs into system and capability requirements and solutions

• Support governance, configuration management, and risk management processes

• Define and improve system integration processes, promoting agile practices, digital engineering, and partnerships across multiple organizations

You'll also support NGA's IT modernization efforts by:

• Working with Expert IT and Cloud Architects to define and refine:

  • Enterprise requirements for IT systems

  • The IT Architecture Layer

  • Multiple Cloud Architecture Patterns

• Helping to advance NGA's multi-cloud acquisition strategy by developing architecture and requirements documentation

• Identifying and documenting associated risks, issues, and opportunities related to enterprise cloud and IT efforts

• Perform architecture gap and baseline analyses to inform future-state planning

• Conduct engineering assessments supporting GEOINT and IT capability investment decisions

• Drive requirements allocation, traceability, and architectural alignment

• Facilitate integration activities across NGA programs and IPTs

• Participate in AoAs, COAs, trade studies, and other decision-making assessments

• Support project planning, roadmaps, and technical documentation (e.g., CONOPS)

• Contribute to governance and change/risk management processes

• Promote agile and digital engineering practices across the enterprise

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.

Education & Clearance

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related STEM field
  - OR - 6 years of experience as a Cloud Architect in lieu of a degree

• TS/SCI clearance adjudication or the ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph

Technical Skills

• Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience with systems engineering processes, including:

  • Architecture

  • Requirements

  • Integration

  • Testing

  • Transition

• Minimum 6 years of experience architecting cloud-based systems

Domain Knowledge

• Experience or working knowledge of the GEOINT TCPED architecture, including:

  • Data Providers

  • Systems / Services

  • Interfaces

  • Data Flows

Tools & Frameworks

• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

• Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Cloud & DevSecOps

• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

• Understanding of multiple cloud environments

• Experience or working knowledge of:

  • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

  • DevSecOps principles and practices

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.