Low Band SIGINT Principal Engineer - Active TS/SCI Clearance - Salt Lake City (ONSITE)

Date Posted:

2024-01-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UT205: 1128 W 2400 South, Salt Lake C 1128 West 2400 South AST - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, 84119 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Low Band SIGINT Principal Engineer to perform Air Force Distributive Common Ground System (AF DCGS) sustainment functions across SIGINT systems. This requisition is open to candidates willing to work with a small team at the DGS facility near the Salt Lake City International Airport for the Utah Air National Guard (UT ANG). Candidate must possess an active DoD TS/SCI w/CI Poly (or willingness to obtain a CI Poly). This position is eligible for relocation assistance.

The position supports Low Band Senior Entry and in these DCGS duties include but are not limited to providing direct mission support and the support of existing and new weapon system infrastructure that is based upon Solaris, Linux and Windows operating systems and associated hardware. Candidates for this position should have a strong understanding of SIGINT operations and the technical expertise to support evolving Virtualized/Cloud based technologies in an Open Architecture (OA) environment. Our new member of the Collins team will initially work closely with more experienced engineers but will eventually be expected to work with limited supervision. Candidates should be self-motivated, organized, possess excellent written and verbal skills, and can work independently. The candidate will be expected to support and respond to customer needs with accuracy and efficiency. Collins Aerospace places an emphasis on work life balance and team spirit while maintaining a favorable relationship with our ANG customer. This position requires the candidate to work various shifts throughout the year in response to customer demands.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support of Full Motion Video, other High Altitude mission assurance/operational effectiveness.

• Use dedicated ground control systems to monitor sensor and ground health and status and quickly resolve issues as they occur.

• Actively monitor and troubleshoot system issues and participate in logistics and incident reporting during problem resolution.

• Participate in integration activities by working closely with the customer, Collins in-plant engineering and other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) when new capabilities are fielded.

• Work as part of a company agnostic team across the AF DCGS enterprise, understand the Collins Aerospace company goals and customer requirements while working well with other team members in the local area.

Qualifications/Experience Needed:

• Security + or higher DoD 8570 certification is required.

• Experience with military SIGINT domains to include U-2, Global Hawk, MQ-1 and MQ-9 sensors and processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) architectures

• UNIX (Solaris or Linux) and Microsoft Windows system administration

• Administration of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) or Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) software solutions used for SIGINT analysis (Socet GXP, GXP Xplorer, Unicorn, mIRC chat, Multi-INT Analysis and Archive System (MAAS), etc.) or other OEM software (APS, GSEG, CICS, etc.)                                                                                        

• Sybase, Oracle, MySQL or MongoDB database system administration

• Experience administering VMware (containers, storage, and resources) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Docker, etc.).

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued DoD TS/SCI clearance is required prior to start date. Must be willing to obtain CI Poly.

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Desired Skills:

• Active DoD TS/SCI w/CI Poly

• Familiar with the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and frameworks (ex. Distributed Data Framework (DDF)).

• Knowledge of web applications and their development (Apache, APS, NET, NodeJS, etc.)