AOC WS Systems Engineer SME

Description

The company is hiring a Senior SME and Systems Engineer for the Air Operations Center Weapon System (AOC WS) program, based in Hampton, Virginia. The role covers engineering, sustaining and integrating the AOC WS baseline, including its legacy on-premise infrastructure, at CONUS and OCONUS sites.

You will work with system, software and hardware design teams, integrated product teams, chief engineers and program leadership, and use both existing and third-party capabilities built into the AOC WS. The company is a global technology and professional services firm serving U.S. government, defense and intelligence agencies, with over 26,000 staff in more than 50 countries.

Responsibilities

• Handle the day-to-day technical actions within the AOC WS engineering and integration teams.
• Keep government functional area leads informed and in regular contact.
• Work with key stakeholders to refine products and solutions that raise operational readiness and meet contract terms, building open communication and trust.
• Answer government requests quickly, tackling hard technical requirements with a geographically spread team.
• Deploy, implement, tune, design, test and administer hardware and software across the on-premise AOC WS baseline, covering servers, compute, storage and networks at CONUS and OCONUS sites.
• Assess how proposed AOC WS changes will interoperate and function, check requirements and requirement changes against product implementations, and integrate and test components and applications.
• Carry out modification and sustainment engineering, run root cause analysis, and manage problem reports from logging through resolution. Recommend fixes for problems found during integration and testing and work with component vendors to close them quickly.
• Create, track and manage Engineering Change Requests in the CPMR/CNIMT configuration tools, and support Change Review Boards and Configuration Control Boards.
• Support systems security engineering, including keeping the classified AOC WS test and integration suites secure, Information System Security Engineering and security architecture, security configuration using DISA SCAP, HBSS and ACAS, USCYBERCOM TASKORDS, OPORDS and MTOs, and pre and post cyber testing with ACAS credentialed scans.
• Help prepare AOC sites for Commander's Cyber Readiness Inspections and manage POA&M entries for DISA CAT I, II and III findings.
• Support AOC WS fielding and installation, including coordinating baseline releases across CONUS and OCONUS sites, and serve as Permanent On-Site Support Engineer where needed.
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 help desk support for the AOC WS program, respond to Tier 1 escalations, and handle fielding activities and enterprise support requests.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field, plus 10+ years of related experience.
• 5+ years working in an Operations Center or similar C2 environment.
• 7+ years in a DoW weapon system engineering, sustainment or integration role.
• 8+ years in training, engineering, program or project management, in military or civilian settings.
• 5+ years in DoW systems integration, infrastructure sustainment, security engineering or a related technical discipline in a classified environment.
• Active Top Secret clearance required. Able to obtain Top Secret/SCI. TS/SCI eligibility preferred.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Experience using Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, or Risk and Opportunity Management, to spot issues and carry out courses of action.
• Experience with the AOC WS Technology Roadmap and integrating third-party GOTS and COTS components, tracking vendor updates and judging their effect on AOC WS baselines.
• Broad technical background in computer and information systems, with strong engineering fundamentals and steadily growing technical responsibility.
• Familiarity with building Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals and training material in the EAGLE Publishing System.
• Familiarity with Agile Release Events, Out-of-Cycle releases, Critical Security Updates and Fast Track releases in the AOC WS baseline.
• Experience with system functional theory, operations, preventive and corrective maintenance, and technical documentation for a DoW weapon system.
• Familiarity with standards-based XML tagging, designs and applications for data product development and engineering.
• Proven record of running technical efforts and teams to meet weapon system requirements.
• Ability to manage many tasks, requirements and commitments while working well across disciplines.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Solid planning skills, with the ability to analyze technical and financial data and reports.
• Experience supporting DoW competitive proposals, technical solution writing or capture work on large weapon system acquisitions (highly desired).
• Preferred: direct experience working in or supporting the Air Force Combined Air Operations Center or AOC WS program, including working knowledge of CAOC processes for executing the Air Tasking Order and Airspace Control Order (strongly preferred).
• Preferred: graduate-level degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Preferred: familiarity with DISA STIGs, ACAS/Nessus scanning, POA&M management and ATO support in DoW weapon systems.
• Preferred: experience supporting ECR and CCB processes in an AOC or comparable DoW C2 weapon system environment.
• Preferred: experience supporting competitive proposals, technical solution narratives, oral presentations or business development for large DoW programs (highly desired).

Conditions

Based at Langley AFB, VA, with onsite work.

Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week.

Travel of less than 10 percent.

Identity verification is part of hiring and uses biometrics and AI. Interviews are conducted on camera, and the company may take your photo for verification.

Equal opportunity employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• Likely salary range of $147,292 to $199,278. Final pay depends on experience, location and possibly contract requirements, and may fall outside this range.
• Medical plans, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental, vision, and a 401(k) with pre- and post-tax contributions up to IRS limits and a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible, and paid vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel accident coverage, provided or available.
• An AI-powered career tool that suggests career steps and learning, and an internal mobility team to help you reach your goals.
• An award-winning culture of innovation in a military-friendly workplace.