Network Engineer Principal

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our team in support of the Air Operations Center Weapons System (AOC WS) Falconer Program. The position is located at Langley AFB, Virginia, at the USAF Ryan Center, and reports to the Integration/Production Center Lead.

This position requires technical engineering experience, with a demonstrated understanding and application of systems engineering and configuration management principals and process, mission planning/scheduling along with experience in systems engineering and sustainment of existing baseline. The successful candidate will be effective at face-to-face interaction with customers and other contractors to respond to requests for information, support to technical meetings, technical interchanges and enterprise working groups. The candidate must be able to work independently and represent the program and SAIC at meetings and working groups with government and associate contractors.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Day to day sustainment & support of the installed Air Operations Center (AOC) baseline

• Support major upgrade projects

• Provide technical expertise and support to assist the AOC Tier 1 HD and AOC sites to mitigate risks when transitioning from one fielded baseline to the next

• Provide assistance to site Network Administrators, System Administrators and other site users to increase their proficiency on the fielded baseline

• Provide support at AOC sites while site personnel progress through program office provided training

• Assist in closing action items noted in the Fielding Summary Memorandum (FSM) and Site Specific Engineering Plan (SSEP)

• Assist site personnel with properly configuring, troubleshooting issues, and migrating to new AOC infrastructure components

• Assist site personnel with capturing site variances to incorporate into the CM process, data migration (as required), application tuning, domain policies, applying security patches, submitting/closing trouble tickets (as required) and configuring the AOC baseline to minimize downtime

• Attend technical exchange meetings, AOC PC engineering and integration meetings, post installation follow-up meetings

• Submit recommended changes to AOC configuration management (CM) personnel

• Provide recommendations on performance and security issues and other items of interest relating to AOC baseline(s)

• Completion of all applicable fielding prerequisites and post install releases (Critical System Updates (CSUs), Fast Tracks (FT), Out Of Cycles (OOC), and Agile Release Events (AREs) by applicable deadlines

• Attend site and SPO fielding meetings, as applicable

• Work with key players to identify achievable site specific objectives

• Track lessons learned and metrics and