Information Assurance-Security Engineer Level 3:

As a Information Assurance-Security Engineer on the TALOS program, you will be expected to:

• Design and implement safety measures and controls. Monitor network activity to identify vulnerable points. Address privacy breaches and malware threats.

• Support the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) processes and Information Assurance documentation for multiple analytic and mission systems across all CLINs

• Generate and maintain the complete security Body of Evidence (BoE) while leading the A&A activities according to the Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes (ICD 503, CNSSI-1253, NIST 800-37, NIST 800-53, etc.) for all multiple information systems

• Author, complete and maintain the System Security Plan (SSP) within XACTA

• Develop the Security Controls Traceability Matrices (SCTM), and the Security Test Plan (STP) procedures within Xacta.

• Analyze existing security systems and make recommendations for changes or improvements Monitor the network and provide early warning of abnormalities or problems RMF, Xacta experience.

• Experience working with software developers and architects to understand security requirements

• Experience guiding the application developers on security policy, identifying security requirements, providing technical guidance for the satisfaction of requirements

• Experience supporting the Continuous Monitoring of operational systems; experience monitoring and auditing operational systems for proper use

• Log Review/Analysis using SIEM tools (Splunk, etc.)

• DISA STIGs and STIG Viewer experience

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years supporting Assessment and Authorization (A&A) and information assurance processes and documentation using RMF.

• BS degree; 7 years of experience with a masters; an additional 4 years of experience required in lieu of a degree (will consider at Staff level with the appropriate years of experience).

• Hands-on experience to validate control implementations and test procedures.

• Knowledge of current security risks and protocols.

• Willingness to work outside of standard hours if circumstances require.

• RMF, Xacta experience.

• Good analytic and problem-solving skills.

• DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certifications (eg, Security+) certifications.

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

• Work 100% onsite in a secure environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with AWS/Google cloud-hosted information systems or applications

• Experience working with Redhat or CentOS Linux operating systems

• Experience working in a DevSecOps environment and tool chain

We are seeking an Expert Level GEOINT Systems Integrator with hands-on experience across the full Systems Engineering and Integration lifecycle, including Architecture, Requirements, CONOPS, Integration, Testing, and Transition activities. This role supports enterprise transformation initiatives across GEOINT mission systems and projects and requires a strategic thinker who can bridge mission needs with technical execution.

The ideal candidate will possess familiarity with the GEOINT Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) Architecture and will contribute to enterprise architecture modernization, technical planning, engineering analyses, and cross-organizational integration efforts that advance GEOINT mission capabilities.

As a member of the Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Division’s Integration Team, you will collaborate with Senior, Mid-Level, and Junior Engineers and Integrators to evaluate enterprise capabilities, identify modernization opportunities, and develop recommendations that inform strategic investment decisions, including system consolidation and divestiture initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture & Engineering Analysis

• Perform architecture gap analyses and support the development of Future State Enterprise Architectures.

• Conduct engineering analyses to inform GEOINT mission and IT capability investment decisions aligned with Enterprise Architecture baselines.

• Perform baseline analyses and support the allocation of requirements to system architecture components.

• Ensure end-to-end traceability across requirements, architecture, interfaces, and program execution activities.

• Capture and translate mission and customer needs into technical requirements, capabilities, and solution recommendations.

• Conduct:

  • Architecture Gap Analyses

  • Enterprise Requirements Analyses

  • Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs)

  • Courses of Action (COAs)

  • Trade Studies

  • Engineering Assessments

Systems Integration & Modernization

• Support enterprise-wide integration activities across NGA Program Executive Offices (PEOs).

• Ensure synchronization of engineering efforts and documentation of Enterprise Baselines, including:

  • Architecture

  • Requirements

  • Interfaces

• Apply Systems Engineering and Integration expertise to modernize GEOINT architectures and mission capabilities.

• Leverage knowledge of the Joint Enterprise Ground and Space Architecture to support mission integration initiatives.

• Lead end-to-end integration projects between NGA and Mission Partners from project planning through Transition to Operations (TTO).

Digital Engineering & Project Planning

• Work within NGA’s Digital Engineering Environment to develop:

  • Integrated Project Plans

  • Requirements

  • Epics

  • Target-State Architectures

  • CONOPS

  • Roadmaps

• Develop schedules, project plans, engineering artifacts, and risk management documentation.

• Lead and participate in cross-functional Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) focused on modernization efforts.

Mission & Capability Delivery

• Support integrated solutions and capability delivery efforts across mission areas including:

  • Analytic Modernization

  • Collection Management

  • Data Services

  • Foundation GEOINT

  • Information Technology Modernization

Leadership & Strategic Contributions

• Provide thought leadership and identify opportunities to expand team scope and mission impact.

• Define project plans, deliverables, execution timelines, and resource requirements.

• Participate in NGA Governance, Configuration Management, and Risk Management processes.

• Help define and improve modern system integration processes.

• Drive adoption of Agile methodologies, Digital Engineering practices, and cross-organizational collaboration across the enterprise.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, or related STEM field 

  • OR equivalent 18+ years' experience as a Systems Integrator can be considered in lieu of a degree

• 18+ years' of Expert-level experience in:

  • Engineering, design, and analysis of IT or related systems

  • All phases of system design, development, analysis, and documentation

  • Development of standards, guidelines, and best practices for engineering activities

• Expert-level experience supporting government or industry programs involving:

  • DoD/IC Acquisition Processes

  • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)

Desired:

• Experience with or working knowledge of the GEOINT TCPED Architecture, including:Data Providers

  • Systems and Services

  • Interfaces

  • Data Flows

• Demonstrated knowledge of:

  • National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG)

  • Allied System for Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG)

  • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Enterprise Environments

• Experience supporting transformational initiatives such as:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Multi-Cloud Architectures

  • Edge Computing / Edge Nodes

• Experience with Agile project management tools including:

  • Jira

  • Confluence

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification(s)

• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including:

  • MBSE methodologies

  • Processes

  • Tools

  • Modeling languages

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Expert Network Systems Engineers will plan and develop telecommunications solutions involving computer and communications equipment. They also analyze network alternatives and develop recommendations for improvements.

Duties may include:

• Analyzes, designs, tests, and evaluates network systems, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), Internet, intranet, satellite, and other data communications systems.

• Performs network modeling, analysis, and planning.

Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Network Systems Engineers.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program OR 18+ years of experience as a Network Systems Engineer may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• 18+ years of experience working in cloud-based systems architecting.

• Network technology course/certification in TCP/IP with applied understanding of the following:

  • Roles of devices in TCP/IP network

  • Details of IP, ARP, TCP, ICMP and UDP

  • Functions of FTP, HTTP, Telnet and other applications of TCP/IP

  • Use of Voice over IP or VoIP, email messaging and multicasting

  • Troubleshooting for TCP/IP issues at each network layer

Desired:

• Network technology course/certification in one or more areas:

  • Configuring TCP/IP on server computers

  • Managing and troubleshooting DNS and DHCP

  • Installing and configuring network and software infrastructure

  • Configuring and managing device routing and remote access

  • Monitoring and maintain network infrastructure

• Completion of a specialized wireless network course and/or certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

All-Source Analyst (Intel Mission Management) Senior:

Conducts analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature. Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.

Senior-level:

• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.

• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information. Demonstrates ability interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.

• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.

• Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.

• Demonstrates proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols

• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.

• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies. Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides requisite expertise and assistance in the creation of collection strategies, postures, and plans in order to meet USCYBERCOM Intelligence and information gaps. 

• Possesses experience, is knowledgeable in all source intelligence collection management systems, databases and processes (e.g. SIGINT, HUMINT, MASINT, CI, OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, TECHINT) and be familiar with USCYBERCOM and subordinate organizations’ structure, role, and command relationship.

• Crosswalks tactical requirements to strategic objectives.

• Assists in validating, coordinating, drafting, submitting, and maintaining formal USCYBERCOM

• Cyber Intelligence requirements and information requests through USSTRATCOM to the Intelligence Community.

• Uses intelligence collection and requirements tools and databases, to include Coliseum, HOTR, NHRTC, and OSCAR-MS.

• Participates in strategic boards, bureaus, committees, centers, and working groups (B2C2WG) in order to effectively assist in the planning of standing and ad hoc collection efforts, de-conflict and coordinate Intelligence and information needs and requirements that cross organizational boundaries, and facilitate joint collection efforts at the strategic and operational levels. 

• Assists in managing requests for collection operations

• Coordinates asset and resource availability

• Develops operational plans to satisfy intelligence requirements.

• De-conflicts time sensitive requirements among mission partners in collaboration with CYBERCOM J2 personnel as needed.

• Assists in the planning and management of organic collection assets through the Intelligence,

• Surveillance, and Reconnaissance planning process.

• Coordinates non-organic collection activities supporting USCYBERCOM.

• Validates, de-conflicts, and consolidates Intelligence requirements for operationally controlled (OPCON) service cyber components and Cyber Mission Forces (CMF).

• Develops, revises, and maintains the Command Priority Intelligence Requirements as well as support the collection planning of Intelligence Planning Teams and other operational planning groups within the command.

• Provides subject matter and technical expertise in GEOINT Information Management Services (GIMS) for the development and sustainment of a GEOINT collection requirements portfolio and associated management function within the JIOC.

• Understands J2’s role in executing USCYBERCOM’s collection management authorities as governed by delegated SIGINT authorities and how those authorities are extended to the CMF via tasking and guidance in accordance with mission alignment.

• Develops Collection Management strategies for USCYBERCOM’s JFHQ-Cs and CNMF-HQ and collaborate with NSA for appropriate mission alignment.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and eight (8) years of experience relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last two (2) years.

• No experience substitute for education.

The ideal Candidate will have:

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

Systems Integrator (Senior):

Overall Assignment Description: Systems Integrators to provide direct mission representation and support to IPO projects including AAA, Exploitation Services, Orchestration Services, SOM Services, Analytic Services and Advanced GEOINT Services, as well as supporting all cross-project integration activities and CONOPS activities under the direction of ATT leadership and the mission architect (Position 4). Between these positons, the lead (Position 3) and the expert in (Position 4) there should be expertise in analyst orchestration tools, exploitation tools, SOM tools, and analytics, as well as expertise to help mission make informed decisions on cloud and high performance computing decisions. However, how these skills are distributed among this team is up to the contractor. These positions will report to ATT leadership.

Duties include:

• Provide understanding and help guide the solutions of cloud/hybrid cloud/on-prem implementations for data storage as well as data storage structures (graph datastores, vector datastores, etc.).

• Provide input to implementation options for high performance computing of both computer vision and analytics.

• Support the architect (Position 4) and ATT leadership in the development and updates for the user concept of operations and support Integrated Capabilities Baseline Document (ICBD) and other documentation as necessary.

• Assist ATT Leadership to address cross-project dependencies and ensure all projects have a compatible user vision.

• Evaluate proposed new insertions to the priority list and provide summary slides for management review along with priority recommendations.

• Coordinate with engineers in CIO-T to develop plans and obtain assessments of the impacts and tradeoffs for capability insertions or priority changes.

• Engage with mission customers and users to shape and define future capabilities.

• Participate in customer and program strategic and tactical planning activities.

• Participate in the development of system architectures to evolve mission services.

• Assess new technologies for fit-for-use by mission services, employing quantifiable and traceable criteria to enable future decision making.

• Conduct AoAs and provide data-driven recommendations.

• Identify project key decision points and provide Go/No-Go recommendations.

• Conduct user outreach to communicate planned architecture changes, operational concepts, and project status, and accept user inputs for optimization of delivery plans.

• Produce weekly activity reports for use by government customers and the program.

• Develop and present effective technical presentations to senior management and to technical/non-technical audiences; must possess strong written and verbal communications skills.

• Explain technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences; and conduct issue coordination within and across agencies.

• Work with customers to resolve technical and programmatic issues.

• Assist product managers and product owners in backlog prioritization.

• Help train new analysts on acquisition and general and project details in particular

• Draft documentation as needed to explain both the as-is and to-be state for the project.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• 12+ years of systems engineering, systems integration, or systems development experience

• Experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition  Process,SAFe Agile acquisition product ownership, merging disparate architectures, CONOPS development, defining a vision for future work based on incomplete requirements, conducting imagery and/or geospatial analysis.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Physical Sciences/ Engineering or related technical experience.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more disciplines of GEOINT analytic tradecraft and analysis production system development.

• 2+ years of experience in government acquisition processes.

• 1+ years of experience in agile Systems development.

• Prior experience in NGA Analysis or similar analysis organization.

• Experience with deploying capabilities to either the classified or unclassified amazon cloud services as well as high performance computing.

• Experience with structured observation management, analyst workflow orchestration and reporting, exploitation tools (still and motion), data analytics and modeling, and tools for non-literal phenomenology exploitation

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Physical Sciences/ Engineering or related technical experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Project Engineer Mid-Level:

Position Description:  

Seeking a motivated PROJECT ENGINEER to support planning, scheduling, and documentation tasks for a large organization. Join a skilled, highly respected and long-standing team supporting product quality and functional testing mission. This is a unique opportunity to enhance your career by working with the community subject matter experts, directly with the customer, and with an experience testing team. The successful candidate will be responsible for technical and operational leadership of testing projects within the guidelines set by the program manager and customers. The candidate will define, generate, and review project requirements documentation. The candidate will build testing schedules for the organization based on inputs from program schedules, requests for change (RFCs), and other system level data to allow the organization to develop their staffing, software, and support needs. Monitor project to ensure work scope, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained. Create products to track schedules, project actions, meeting agendas, and other documentation to support government working groups.

Based on the priorities of the office and the active projects, the candidate will be tasked to:

• Support working group to manage project elements. Develop agenda, charts, action items, and status in coordination with government leads. 

• Design and maintain an integrated master schedule of test events, dependencies, capabilities and effectivites to meet evolving customer needs.  

• Evaluate impacts on segment, project and enterprise schedule related to changes in customer and program requirements or schedule performance. Update schedules with new or modified request for service (RFS) and staffing resource allocation data.

• Develop a resource loaded schedule to support office planning, staffing of skill sets, and software tool development needs to support future activities. 

• Provide status to include analysis and reports to management consistent with program and customer requirements.

• Support and improve business processes. Identify areas for efficiencies and provide process improvements.

• Develop and support creation of technical documentation. Support configuration management tasks within the team.

• Track project execution, identify, and mitigate project risk.

• Work independently and within teams where appropriate. 

• Provide briefings to internal team and assist with briefings to senior government customers.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in project management, scheduling, or business processes.

• Experience with Project planning, schedule development, and resource allocation

• Experience with schedule planning and visualization tools, ex. JIRA/Confluence, Microsoft Project.

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

• Knowledge/experience working in the Intelligence Community.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to develop and formulate solutions for problems/issues.

• Strong interpersonal, customer interaction, written, and verbal and briefing skills with ability to work in a fast paced multi-tasking environment.

Desired Skills:

• System Engineering and project planning experience, working medium to large projects.

• Experience working Test Management programs, specifically ALM Octane

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and integrated scheduling programs

• Technical writing expertise

• Experience with the concepts and practice of Digital Engineering Environment, Authoritative Sources of Truth (ASoT)

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

We are seeking a Mid-Level Systems Engineer to apply a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to requirements and solutions engineering, systems integration, testing and evaluation, reliability and resiliency engineering, service development, scheduling, and maintainability analysis. This role supports mission-critical initiatives across the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System for Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and partnering Federal Agencies to ensure the delivery of timely, accurate, and high-quality GEOINT capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability and resiliency assessments, service development, systems integration, testing, evaluation, and maintainability analysis across NSG, ASG, and Federal Agency environments.

• Lead and support planning activities, including requirements analysis and traceability, architecture alignment, and the evaluation of procedures, workflows, cloud services, and system performance constraints.

• Develop solution designs informed by emerging technologies and requirements analysis, while providing mentorship and technical guidance to Junior Engineers.

• Assist Government stakeholders in translating mission objectives and customer needs into clear system and capability requirements.

• Support allocation and traceability of requirements to system architecture components and program execution activities.

• Contribute to systems integration efforts, ensuring seamless alignment across platforms, services, and operational environments.

• Participate in Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (CoAs), trade studies, and comprehensive engineering assessments.

• Assist Government teams with strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk identification and mitigation, and interface design.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or 6 years of experience as a Systems Engineer in lieu of degree.

• 6+ years of working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Associate System Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations:

  • ACSM

  • ASCE

  • ASPRS

  • OGC

  • SAREM

  • USGIF

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Expert-level Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience of 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.

• 18+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Desired:

• Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Software Development Framework certification.

• INCOSE Expert Systems engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:

  • ACSM

  • ASCE

  • ASPRS

  • OGC

  • SAREM

  • USGIF

• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Cyber Security Analyst Level 4:

You will have the opportunity to build strong lines of cyber defense using cutting-edge technologies. Your work in cyber security will have an impact on securing our clients' missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow. As a Cyber Security Analyst you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Cyber Security Analyst joining our team of analysts, stationed in diverse CONUS and OCONUS locations tasked with monitoring and protecting the classified and unclassified systems of a major Intelligence Community Agency for fraud, waste, and abuse, to include inappropriate content, illegal activity, Identity leakage, and Insider threat activity. 

Level 4:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance. 

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

HOW A CYBER SECURITY ANALYST WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Gather and handle forensic evidence in accordance with Rules of Evidence and perform forensic analysis of digital information.

• Monitor, detect and report indicators of misuse, abuse, data spillage, insider threat, and security violations.

• Identify acceptable use policy infractions.

• Review event logs to determine events of interest.

• Monitor for fraud, waste and abuse, including content inappropriate to the workplace, Illegal Activity, Productivity Loss and Non-Compliant Activity, as well as Identity Leakage (PII).

• Prepare case evidence and incident reports.

• Work on special projects as assigned. 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Preferred Skills: Splunk, Proofpoint, Fidelis, Solera, Windows, and Linux Operating Systems

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrsMasters+6yrsPhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience

Training and Certifications:

• IAT Level 3

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Cyber Security Engineer (Expert):

Expert Cyber Security Engineers capture and refine information security requirements and ensure that the requirements are integrated into information technology component products and information systems through purposeful security architecting, design, development, and configuration.

Duties may include: 

• Assists with leading development teams working to design and develop information systems or upgrade legacy systems. 

• Conducts product research and support Analysis of Alternative (AoA) activities that independently identify the most appropriate security solutions. 

• Assists with leading the development of system concepts, contribute to the capability phase of the systems development lifecycle, and translate technology and environmental conditions (e.g., law and regulation) into system security designs and processes.

• Assists with leading the development and documentation of Security Architectures, Roadmaps, and investments.

• Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Cyber Security Engineers. 

Education and Experience

Required: 

• 18+ years' experience.

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Cyber Security Engineer.

• Expert working experience in government or industry within Cyber Security Engineering. 

• DoD 8570 Level II (IASAE) certification compliance

Desired:

• Expert working experience in government or industry leading enterprise-level cyber security efforts involving architecting, designing, development, and configuration of cloud and on premise based systems and software. 

• Experience engineering Cyber Security solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

• Experience engineering Cyber Security solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience engineering Cyber Security solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.  

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Expert):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include: 

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology. 

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises. 

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Expert working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Doctorate in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Software Development Framework certification.

• INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF

• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

Education and Experience:

• 18+ years' experience.

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Systems Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Software Architect (Expert-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Expert-level Software Architects lead the design and development of software solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture.  The Expert-Level Software Architect is a software expert who makes high-level design choices and recommends technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.  The Expert-level Software Architect provides technical and software engineering support towards a model based systems engineering approach to IT requirements engineering and architecture development, targeted at the Enterprise, Segment, and Solution Engineering levels. This consists of developing and transforming the NGA IT EA framework, processes & tools to realize EA vision, and the essential products and supporting products (if needed) that provide conceptual, logical, or physical representations of the enterprise’s IT baseline and target architecture.

Duties may include: 

• Modify, develop, and mature the required EA products to provide a blueprint for organizational IT transformation and modernization in terms of business functions, data necessary to conduct the business functions, applications to manage the data, and technology to support the applications.

• Develop IT prototypes and integration models. Work with product managers, developers, subject matter experts and other stakeholders to define the IT solution roadmaps, develop solution designs, scope technical requirements and solution epics, evaluate new technologies, and develop frameworks in support of mission priorities.  

• Develop current and future state architectures that advance customer experience and organizational excellence. Make recommendations regarding strategic and integrated architectural considerations related to technology direction and standards.

• Develop, define and bound IT solution architecture artifacts, analyzing current trends in technology, recommending ways to integrate latest digital technologies and leverage common services to streamline internal operations, and analyzing and implementing applications for infrastructure issues.

• Develop design artifacts that describe the structure, characteristics, behavior, workflow and other aspects of the solution to project stakeholders.

• Investigate and integrate new solutions using customer software, commercial software and open source software. Develop platform technology roadmaps to include SaaS, PaaS, custom software, third party offerings, open source and other technology components. 

• Ensure a loosely coupled architecture through the use and management of APIs (e.g., REST, OData, AWS API management tools, etc…) as well as microservices. Establish standards and guardrails for internal and external use.

• Provide architectural guidance to support Agile/DevSecOps software development solutions, modern architectures, system integrations, and cloud migration projects.

• Develop and integrate IT solutions architecture artifacts in coordination with IPOs and programs within NGA.

• Develop and assist IPOs and programs within NGA to generate and integrate the following architecture products as a minimum.

• Business Architecture: represents holistic, multidimensional business views of: capabilities, end‐to‐end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders.

• Data Architecture: represents integration of value specifications for qualitative and quantitative variables and their alignment with business architecture and strategy. 

• Application Architecture: represents the specification and structural partitioning of technology‐based automation into business logic, user experience, and data perspectives as an enabler of business architecture and strategy. 

• Technical Architecture: represents the logical and physical interconnection of infrastructure elements to enable the deployment and management of data architecture, application architecture, business architecture, and strategy.

• Develop Sequencing Plan/ Technical Roadmaps – Showing the evolution from NGA’s current, or “as-is”, operational and technological environment, to its target, or “to-be” environment, followed by the development of a plan for transitioning from the as-is to the to-be environment related to the IT EA discussed herein. The changes needed to transition from the current state of the enterprise to the goals and conditions expressed by the target architecture cannot be achieved in a single quantum step. The Sequencing Plan should provide a step-by-step process for moving from the baseline architecture to the target architecture.

• Conduct gap analysis by identifying the differences between the baseline and target architectures in all related architecture products. Consequently, the gap analysis also develops the user requirements, determines political and technical constraints, and assesses migration risks and feasibility.

• Apply data science techniques to implement and enable reportability of Enterprise Requirements using industry best practice for integration and automation of manual/time intensive tasks.

• Implement the delivery of data visualization through the use of COTS/GOTS provided applications for response to oversight RFIs. Document and translate technical/IT requirements and digital engineering modernization / digital system engineering thread into plain English for briefing to decision makers.

• Assist the Government in integrating IT architecture products across NGA

• Develop high level business views and requirements that span the entire agency.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Experience in defining and developing architectures, including current state, future state and enterprise technology roadmaps, working with commercial, open source, and cloud solutions including developing prototypes and integration models.

• Experience with modern architecture (loosely coupled services) - service-oriented architecture/micro-services and DevSecOps practices. .

• Expert knowledge of  various cloud service models to include software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service: 

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Experience performing enterprise architecture modeling using an enterprise architect modeling tool.

• Experience with developing, evaluating and maintaining services-based and cloud-based solutions and services, cloud computing, service orientation, containerization, micro-services, API development and streaming platforms.

• Experience with both DoDAF and commercial architecture frameworks (ie.TOGAF, FEAF).

• Familiarity with NGA missions and systems.

• Working knowledge of NGA’s current and in-development IT solutions (i.e., fielded or planned systems and services).

• Working knowledge of current free and open cluster management software.

• Experience documenting architecture and design best practices and guidelines.

• Experience creating proof-of-concept in new technology areas if needed.

• Demonstrated progression from a solid working technical background to an Enterprise Architecture.

Education and Experience:

• 18+ years' experience.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, System Engineering, or a related STEM Degree Program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Software Architect.

• Skillset with balanced experience in Business, Data, Application and Technology architecture domains.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Systems Engineer (Mid-Level) - This is a high priority position to fill!

We are seeking a Mid-level Systems Engineer with hands-on Systems Engineering and Integration experience and working knowledge of GEOINT, the TCPED cycle, and the NGA and/or NRO architecture to support engineering analysis and implementation planning for Joint Ground Architecture modernization activities. 

Duties may include:

• Lead Joint Agency Integration efforts, establishing workflows, digital dashboards, and collaboration portals (Jira, Confluence, Tableau).

• Provide systems engineering support, assessing enterprise architecture, requirements, and integration impacts and risks while contributing to test and transition activities.

• Participate in cross-organizational Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), to coordinate and implement joint ground architecture modernization projects.

• Participate in internal NGA and Joint Agency Boards, to drive cross organizational / Agency coordination.

• Contribute to the development and enterprise coordination of Requests for Change (RFCs) and Risks associated with Joint Agency ground modernization.

• Develop digital dashboards and collaboration portals (Jira, Confluence, Tableau) to manage and creatively visualize Joint Agency initiatives.

• Build effective relationships across government and contractor teams.

• This role offers a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’ll play a key role in modernizing NGA’s joint ground architecture to deliver GEOINT mission capabilities.

Skills and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program -OR- 6 years of working experience as a Systems Engineer in lieu of degree.

• 6 - 12 years of working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle (e.g., Requirements, Architecture, CONOPS, Integration, Test, Transition, Risk Management, Schedule Management, and/or Engineering Assessments).

• Familiarity / experience in the field of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Systems / services across the GEOINT Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) cycle with NGA and/or its Mission Partners with National, Tactical, Commercial, and/or other Data Providers

Desired:

• Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)SAFe principles, constructs, practices, terms, roles & associated responsibilities, products / deliverables

• Team, Agile Release Train, and Solution Train experiences

• SAFe implementation for Government Customers

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification(s) (Agilist, Scrum Master, Others)

• Hands-on experience facilitating Working Groups, preferably across multiple organizations and with senior leadership participation

• Experience briefing customers/clients and working with them closely on a day-to-day basis

• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence

• Stand-up and facilitation of Jira Kanbans and Backlogs

• Creation of Epics and Features in Jira

• Use of Jira Advanced Roadmaps

• Development and maintenance of Confluence sites for team collaboration and as Customer portals

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

OSINT Analyst Native Language Collector (Farsi):

Job Description:

Conducts all-source analytic production on sources and products of information available from public, private, and U.S. and foreign Government open source materials within established security protocols. Analyzes foreign and domestic-based publicly available information to identify trends, patterns, and relationships that provide unique insights to address defense intelligence requirements

Senior-Level:

• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.

• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.

• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.

• Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.

• Demonstrates proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining,

• evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.

• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies. Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category   activities required to meet mission requirements.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.

Job Duties:

• Leverages native language skills, the Candidate shall conduct OSINT collection activities/taskings and associative/applicable research, processing, exploitation/analysis, and dissemination of OSINT in fulfillment of collection requirements and production requirements, requests for information, and associated activities assigned from the Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) in accordance with applicable Department of Defense and USCYBERCOM practices, standard operating procedures (SOP), instructions and policies.

• Conducts the aforementioned OSINT collection activities with the applicable operations security (OPSEC) mitigation strategy, exercising proper obfuscation and tradecraft while on the internet, and employing USCBERCOM-approved training and tools to mitigate exposure.

• The Candidate shall perform as a language specialist at the native level, providing accurate reading, writing, speaking skills, as well as provide cultural understanding regarding geopolitical, economic and social issues.

• Provides accurate written gists, translations of transcripts, and video and audio sources from the target language to English and vice versa while preserving the original meaning and intent of the original source.

• Devises and advises new methods of target language research and exploitation of publically available information and determine the most effective methods for presenting and disseminating the information.

• Maintains technical proficiency and knowledge in navigating the internet and receptive to on the job training/learning in the performance of applicable tasking, collection (tradecraft), processing, exploitation/analysis (tradecraft), and dissemination of OSINT reports and/or products.

• Possesses a background in formulating OSINT Collection Plans that are in adherence to applicable laws, policies, and regulations and sufficiently mitigates OPSEC risk.

• Evaluates and validates data and information and draw meaningful and insightful conclusions from disparate sets of publically available information.

• Recommends appropriate levels of classification based on how OSINT is collected, processed, and exploited.

Education and Experience:

• Senior-Level Eight (8) years of experience relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last two (2) years and a Bachelor’s degree.

• Desired Experience: Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Desired Education: Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

OSINT Analyst Native Language Collector (Chinese):

Job Description:

Conducts all-source analytic production on sources and products of information available from

public, private, and U.S. and foreign Government open source materials within established

security protocols. Analyzes foreign and domestic-based publicly available information to

identify trends, patterns, and relationships that provide unique insights to address defense

intelligence requirements

Senior-Level:

• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.

• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.

• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.

• Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.

• Demonstrates proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining,

• evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.

• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies. Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category   activities required to meet mission requirements.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.

Job Duties:

• Leverages native language skills, the Candidate shall conduct OSINT collection activities/taskings and associative/applicable research, processing, exploitation/analysis, and dissemination of OSINT in fulfillment of collection requirements and production requirements, requests for information, and associated activities assigned from the Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) in accordance with applicable Department of Defense and USCYBERCOM practices, standard operating procedures (SOP), instructions and policies.

• Conducts the aforementioned OSINT collection activities with the applicable operations security (OPSEC) mitigation strategy, exercising proper obfuscation and tradecraft while on the internet, and employing USCBERCOM-approved training and tools to mitigate exposure.

• The Candidate shall perform as a language specialist at the native level, providing accurate reading, writing, speaking skills, as well as provide cultural understanding regarding geopolitical, economic and social issues.

• Provides accurate written gists, translations of transcripts, and video and audio sources from the target language to English and vice versa while preserving the original meaning and intent of the original source.

• Devises and advises new methods of target language research and exploitation of publically available information and determine the most effective methods for presenting and disseminating the information.

• Maintains technical proficiency and knowledge in navigating the internet and receptive to on the job training/learning in the performance of applicable tasking, collection (tradecraft), processing, exploitation/analysis (tradecraft), and dissemination of OSINT reports and/or products.

• Possesses a background in formulating OSINT Collection Plans that are in adherence to applicable laws, policies, and regulations and sufficiently mitigates OPSEC risk.

• Evaluates and validates data and information and draw meaningful and insightful conclusions from disparate sets of publically available information.

• Recommends appropriate levels of classification based on how OSINT is collected, processed, and exploited.

Education and Experience:

• Senior-Level Eight (8) years of experience relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last two (2) years and a Bachelor’s degree. 

• Desired Experience: Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Desired Education: Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Systems Engineer (Senior):

Overall Assignment Description:

The candidate will provide services to discover, screen and assess new and emerging GEOINT capabilities to satisfy mission needs and user requirements. They will provide services to develop, document, maintain and implement functional profiles for Commercial GEOINT imagery, data, products, and analytic services to support the screening and scoring of vendor solutions. They will provide Cross Organization integration services to ensure commercial solutions flow seamlessly from discovery to assessment, acquisition, integration and operations, appropriately.

Duties include:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in assessing Commercial capabilities by gathering vendor data to populate product profiles, determining performance fit based on functional profiles, and determining risk ranking based on various criteria.

• Assists the Government in developing, maintaining, and updating functional profiles for imagery, data, products and analytic services.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, and risk management.

• Provides senior advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Senior working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Master’s in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF

• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Experience architecting solutions using Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Augmentation technologies.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Senior Level work experience as a Systems Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Expert-level Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience of 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.

• 18+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Desired:

• Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Software Development Framework certification.

• INCOSE Expert Systems engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:

  • ACSM

  • ASCE

  • ASPRS

  • OGC

  • SAREM

  • USGIF

• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Mid-level Systems Engineers employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or 6+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• 6+ years of experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations:

  • ACSM

  • ASCE

  • ASPRS

  • OGC

  • SAREM

  • USGIF

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

We are seeking a Requirements Systems Engineer to support the GEODEV Integrated Product Team (IPT). In this role, you will apply a multi-disciplinary systems engineering approach to define, design, and deliver mission-critical capabilities across CAP/SAP architectures, the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), the Allied System for Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and partner Federal Agencies. This position directly supports the development and integration of GEOINT systems to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable intelligence delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, service development, integration, testing, evaluation, and system analysis across CAP/SAP architectures and NSG/ASG environments.

• Lead and execute planning and traceability of user and system requirements, ensuring architecture alignment, process optimization, and effective workflow automation.

• Develop solution designs based on detailed analysis of mission requirements, system constraints, and emerging technologies.

• Assist Government stakeholders in capturing and translating mission and customer needs into actionable system and capability requirements.

• Support system-level requirements analysis, allocation, and integration across complex architecture components and acquisition programs.

• Contribute to system integration activities and assist in Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (CoAs), trade studies, and technical assessments.

• Support the Government in strategic technical planning, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.

• Collaborate closely with OSP development contractors and security teams, serving as a systems integration SME to help achieve OSP mission objectives.

• Support the integration of new and emerging capabilities into a compartmented enterprise environment.

• Participate actively in architecture and enterprise integration tasks, ensuring technical alignment and mission continuity.

• Follow Government direction and deliver high-quality products on schedule while proactively identifying issues and recommending solutions.

• Communicate effectively with Government leads, working independently while keeping leadership informed of progress and challenges.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Science, Engineering, or related technical experience field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• 6+ years of experience with government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of a large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environment.

• 6+ years of experience with the Systems Engineering Lifecycle. 

• Experience with sensor development, processing algorithms, image science, data optimization, remote sensing or exploitation techniques.

• Experience with Architecture, Requirements or DoDAF.

• Understanding of compartmented security and interfaces with multiple levels of security, compartmented and non-compartmented.

• MUST have experience with Astro-Dynamics (Space).

Desired:

• Experience writing enterprise and segment level requirements, working with end users to derive requirements, and tracing requirements to program level objectives.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

System Architect (Mid-Level)- This is a future position that may come open in the future. We are currently building our pipeline.

Mid-level System Architects design and develop solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture.

Duties May Include: 

• Designs, develops, maintains, and documents solution architectures ensuring traceability to the Enterprise architecture and Enterprise requirements.

• Conducts the analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Develops proposed changes to the solutions architecture design based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

Education and Experience

Required:

• 6 to 12 years of experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related STEM degree program or equivalent Mid level experience as a Systems Architect.

• Mid-level architecture working experience in government or industry. 

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Mid-Level) employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include: 

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Ability to solve complex problems, lead a team(s) and work independently and proactively with minimal supervision.

Education and Experience

Required:

• 6 to 12 years of experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in related STEM degree program, or equivalent Mid level experience as a Systems Engineer.

• Mid-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Mid-level working system engineering experience in government or industry.

• Experience communicating and collaborating both within and external to organization.

• Must have expeirence with NITF, Metadata and Product quality

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Associate System Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

Intelligence Operations Specialist:

The Opportunity:

As an intelligence analyst on our team, you'll help with functional management of intelligence programs. You will leverage your expertise and experience to advance unit concerns, translate them into requirements, and provide recommendations on how to organize, train, equip, and utilize resources in accordance with higher headquarters polices. Additionally, you will assist with the coordination of policy development, guidance, requirements, tactics, and techniques. Finally, you will inform all intelligence training allocation requirements and conduct inspections to provide oversight and visibility of unit operational readiness and unit compliance. You'll share your expertise with other analysts through leadership and mentoring. We focus on growing as a team to deliver the best support to our customers, so you'll have resources to learn new skills and tools. Work with us as we provide the right information at the right time to support critical needs. Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience with military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

• 5+ years of experience working with U.S. military and civilian leadership at a Headquarters level

• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

• Ability to manage, coordinate, and articulate issues for action by leadership

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

• HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with the PPBE processes

• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Bachelor's degree

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Systems Engineer (Junior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Junior-level Systems Engineers employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include: 

• Assists Mid-Level engineers and the Government in requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists in planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Assists in develop solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Junior-level working system engineering experience in government or industry.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering Experience and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• Working knowledge in the field of geospatial intelligence.

Education and Experience:

• 0 to 6+ years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Junior level experience as a Systems Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested.

SME GEOINT Instructor Space Analysis:

• Minimum of bachelor’s and 3 years relevant experience or 6 years’ experience without degree

• GIMS certification strongly preferred.

• Experience with instructing or solving intelligence problems and filling intelligence gaps through collection of airborne and space-borne imagery.

• Experience with creating, submitting requirements, or instructing GIMS or a similar tool.

• Knowledge of geospatial data and imagery analysis, including how to use image science, analytic methods, data science, open-source research, and human geography to characterize events, discover relationships and trends, and produce GEOINT.

• Knowledge of national imagery exploitation processes, policies, and production cycles and the principles and applications of geographic information systems.

Additional criteria for our Space-Counterspace position:

• Understanding of Space/Counterspace policy.

• Knowledge of Space systems and technologies including Space-Based IMINT, Space-Based SIGINT, and orbital mechanics.

Level 1 Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in area of expertise plus three years of experience,

• OR six years of relevant experience. The expertise must align with work role.

• Desired Minimum Instructional Experience: Three years of relevant instructor experience.

Level 2 Experience:

• Master’s degree in area of expertise plus 3 years of relevant experience,

• OR bachelor’s degree in area of expertise plus 5 years of relevant experience,

• OR 20 years of relevant experience.

• Desired Minimum Teaching Experience: Four years of relevant instructor experience.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Special Programs Support Specialist:

The Special Programs Support Specialist applies GEOINT tradecraft expertise to work that is of the most sensitive nature or provide GEOINT support for mission partners with special programmatic requirements. Performs critical services that enable collection, exploitation, production or enhancement of GEOINT for programs that are bound by sensitives such as analytical techniques or sources, emerging tradecraft applications, special partnerships, or special issues.

Roles:

• The following lists potential roles that the Special Programs Support Specialist would fulfill as defined in issuing Task Orders. This list is not exhaustive.

• GEOINT Scientist – performs advanced tradecraft application of a specific sensor, dataset, methodology or technology that supports special program-based objectives.

• GEOINT Collections Specialist - performs and manages collection activities of GEOINT based sources in support of special program operations.

• GEOINT Analyst - exploits, analyzes, and produces GEOINT in support of special program operations.

• Emerging Tradecraft Specialist – performs activities that develop or integrate tradecraft associated products or processes for emerging sensors, data or technologies.

• Mission Partner Specialist - performs GEOINT integration work and acts as a liaison to GEOINT enterprise elements.

• Product Developer - creates, compiles, or designs multi-media products or services that convey GEOINT for identified communication channels that are visual, verbal, written or tactical as required by mission.

Skills:

The Specialist possesses advanced ability to perform GEOINT based activities or manage and communicate the activities necessary to perform such activities in support of a special program or partner.

Skills Required:

• Ability to obtain and maintain special clearance or access.

• Advanced application of GEOINT tradecraft methodologies

• Integration of GEOINT, particularly ABI, into partner all source analysis

• Ability to produce GEOINT products to NGA standards and quality.

• Ability to communicate with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written.

• Proficiency in common geospatial software applications and tools

• Proficiencies in the spectrum of GEOINT from collection, exploitation, analysis, and product delivery capabilities

Skills Desired:

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with self-accountability and foster positive customer relationships.

• Demonstrate familiarity in the functional mission areas and key intelligence issues.

• Previous deployment experience

• Demonstrated ability to perform a variety of data exploitation techniques to include spatial analysis, network analysis and other data analytics as appropriate.

• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as a team-member.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Deployer Analyst:

The Deployer Analyst delivers GEOINT support services from forward deployed locations to forward deployed customers. May serve as the resident GEOINT expert to supply tactical level GEOINT for military or other government customers. May provide in house GEOINT collection functions, exploit and produce GEOINT products and services as needed, or act as a liaison to manage GEOINT requirements between forward and reach back elements. Able to train and prepare for deployment and meet the qualifications for deployment. Able to deliver quality and resilient service while deployed. Able to perform post-deployment and reach back activities supporting teammates preparing or currently deployed. Capable of performing high operational tempo work as part of a team supplying services on a rotating basis 24/7. 

Roles:

• The following lists potential roles the Deployer Analyst would fulfill as defined in issuing Task Orders. This list is not exhaustive:

• Deployable GEOINT Analyst – collects, exploits, analyzes, and produces GEOINT in support of critical operations while deployed.

• Deployable Product Developer – creates, compiles, or designs multi-media products or services that convey GEOINT for identified communication channels that are visual, verbal, written or tactical as required by mission.

• Deployable Team Lead – leads a team of deployable analysts supporting critical operations, could also perform the tasks of the team, manages and responsible for issues and tasks of the team, communicates and reports to management as required.

• Deployable GEOINT Liaison – acts as a conduit for GEOINT support between forward and reach back elements, trains or mentors on applied tradecraft skills, communicates and consults on tradecraft standards, collaborates with stakeholders to maintain and advocate for GEOINT equities, identifies areas for innovation, develops innovative approaches related to GEOINT exploitation for critical operational missions.

• Deployable GEOINT Integrator – applies tradecraft expertise to either integrate GEOINT data into other streams of intelligence or integrate other streams of intelligence into GEOINT for critical operational objectives.

Skills:

The Deployer Analysts must maintain readiness to deploy as well as successfully conduct a full deployment in support of the Mission Partner. This cadre is not only skilled in GEOINT creation and delivery but also adept to dynamic, high-tempo, and often dangerous environments. Critical to success are the creation and delivery of timely, accurate, and relevant GEOINT but also the ability to work within the operational constraints as outlined. The Government also requires a rapid response capability able to deploy in the event of a crisis/contingency/surge situation.

Skills Required:

• Ability to deploy 4-8 months per year with ancillary travel and medical support.

• Ability to produce GEOINT products to NGA standards and quality.

• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as a team-member but also as the resident expert on GEOINT.

• Ability to communicate with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written.

• Experience with common products and services that support tactical and forward deployed critical operations.

• Demonstrated proficiency in common Geospatial software applications.

Skills Desired:

• Understanding of Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and application of ABI methodologies.

• Regional Geographic proficiency in physical, cultural, and social geographies.

• Previous deployed experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested.

Operations Specialist:

The Operations Specialist applies GEOINT tradecraft to operations that revolve around time dominant or first phase GEOINT collection and analysis. The specialist performs services that support the activities that manage GEOINT collection requirements and/or the activities that support the tasks that exploit and produce GEOINT analysis for time dominant issues and topics. The specialist can perform high operational tempo work as part of a team that supplies services on a rotating basis 24/7/365. 

Roles:

• The following lists potential roles that the Operations Specialist would fulfill as defined in issuing Task Orders. This list is not exhaustive:

• Time Dominant GEOINT Analyst –exploits, analyzes, and produces GEOINT in support of time dominant operations.

• Time Dominant Collections Specialist – performs and manages collection activities of GEOINT based sources in support of time dominant operations.

• Watch Specialist – provides support services to enable critical operations activities or tasks.

• Briefer – communicates, conveys, presents GEOINT in support of time dominant operations.

• Product Developer - creates, compiles, or designs multi-media products or services that convey GEOINT for identified communication channels that are visual, verbal, written or tactile as required by mission.

• Operations Team Lead – leads a team of analysts supporting critical operations, could also perform the tasks of the team, manages and responsible for issues and tasks of the team, communicates and reports to management as required.

Skills:

The Operations Specialist possesses skills that focus on GEOINT time-sensitive activities.

Skills Required:

• Ability to produce GEOINT products to NGA standards and quality.

• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as a team-member.

• Ability to communicate with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written.

• Demonstrate familiarity in the functional mission areas and key intelligence issues.

Skills Desired:

• Understanding of Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and application of ABI methodologies.

• Previous experience utilizing GEOINT collection management information systems.

• Previous experience utilizing GEOINT analytical databases and reporting tools.

• Previous experience performing first phase GEOINT work.

• Previous experience with collection capabilities and methods.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Motion GEOINT Specialist:

The Motion GEOINT Specialist applies GEOINT tradecraft to operations that revolve around the exploitation of Motion GEOINT based sensors and production of analytic products that communicate information, activities and intelligence through various NGA and mission partner communication channels and mechanisms. The specialist is capable of exploiting Motion GEOINT in addition to leveraging and integrating imagery and other geospatial-enabled data and sources as appropriate. The specialist can perform high operational tempo work as part of a team that supplies services on a rotating basis 24/7/365. 

Roles: The following lists potential roles that the Motion GEOINT Specialists would fulfill as defined in issuing Task Orders. This list is not exhaustive:

• Motion GEOINT Analyst – utilizes Motion GEOINT and other sources as appropriate to exploit, analyze, and produce GEOINT in support of critical operations.

• Product Developer – creates, compiles, or designs multi-media products or services that convey Motion GEOINT for identified communication channels that are visual, verbal, written or tactical as required by mission.

• Motion GEOINT Team Lead – leads a team of analysts supporting critical operations, could also perform the tasks of the team, manages and responsible for issues and tasks of the team, communicates and reports to management as required.

• Motion GEOINT Tradecraft Specialist – trains or mentors on applied tradecraft skills, communicates and consults on tradecraft standards, collaborates with stakeholders to maintain and advocate for Motion GEOINT equities, identifies areas for innovation, develops innovative approaches related to Motion GEOINT exploitation for critical operational missions.

• Motion GEOINT Integrator – applies tradecraft expertise to either integrate Motion GEOINT into other streams of intelligence or integrate other streams of intelligence into Motion GEOINT for critical operational objectives.

Skills:

This work requires staff qualified to perform Motion GEOINT analysis. Staff will have previous experience in Motion GEOINT analysis, mission familiarity, and demonstrated ability to operate in a high-tempo environment. The Motion GEOINT Specialist must be adaptable and team-oriented, be committed to delivering timely and accurate GEOINT, be committed to maintaining the integrity of mission partner data and operations, and exhibit professionalism.

Skills Required:

• Demonstrated experience with Motion GEOINT tradecraft and analysis.

• Understanding of Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and application of ABI methodologies.

• Ability to produce GEOINT products to NGA standards and quality.

• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as a team-member.

• Ability to communicate with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written.

• Proficiency in common Motion GEOINT software applications

• Proficiency in typing

Skills Desired:

• Regional Geographic proficiency to include physical, cultural, and social geographies.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Mid-Level All-Source Analyst (Production) demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description. Uses logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information. Interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications. Additionally, is able to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments. Creates timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats. Develops structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols. Analyst may lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

Duties may include:

• Conducts analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature.

• Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.

• Provides all-source analysis to include: research, evaluation and deconfliction of single-source classified reporting, technical intrusion information, other agency all-source finished intelligence, open-source information and other relevant data.

• Categorizes and characterizes cyber threats and malware to help identify trends and changes in theactivities of the cyber adversaries.

• Adheres to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) all-source analytic tradecraft and standards.

• Establishes and maintains communications with counterparts in the Intelligence Community, the USCYBERCOM service components, other combatant commands, Cyber National Mission Force, Department of Homeland Security/NCSD, CERTS and Information Assurance Centers to collaborate on analysis and identify changes in the environment (This is done only at the direction of USCYBERCOM leadership and in accordance with the guidance of government sponsors within assigned division).

• Maintains cognizance of events occurring both within the U.S. government systems and internationally as directed to identify possible relationships to established knowledge base.

• Possesses either a certificate of completion /or verified work experience/course work equivalent to the skills identified in DoD Directive 8570.01 for IAT level 1 or IAM level 1.

• Uses intelligence production tools and databases, to include: Tripwire Analytic Capability, Intellipedia, Palantir, MIDB, Cyber Common Operating Picture (CyberCOP), Target Knowledge Base, Cyber Threat Matrix, Automated Message Handling System, WISE Information Management System, Network Knowledge Base, FoxTrail, CENTAUR, ispace, Pathfinder, and Microsoft OneNote

Education and Experience

Required:

• 3 - 8 years of experience relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last two (2) years.

Desired:

• Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment  opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to  race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or  expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information,  marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested.

GEOINT Time Dominant Collection Specialist operates the revolve around time dominant or first phase GEOINT collection and analysis. The specialist performs services that support the activities that manage GEOINT collection requirements and/or the activities that support the tasks that exploit and produce GEOINT analysis for time dominant issues and topics. The specialist is capable of performing high operational tempo work as part of a team that supplies services on a rotating basis 24/7/365. The Candidate possesses skills that focus on GEOINT time-sensitive activities. The Operations Specialist Time Dominant Collections Specialist performs and manages collection activities of GEOINT based sources in support of time dominant operations.

Junior-Level:

Implementing, part of team, executing tasks. These are still developmental labor positions. Services requiring junior level support will require a person to have slightly more experience than a full entry level while performing slightly more advanced skills than per an entry level. Understands and applies more advanced concepts and processes to tasks

Mid-Level:

Implementing/Leading, ushering and executing tasks. These are positions that exhibit technical proficiency in the work and should be expected to work with minimal oversight and often lead smaller teams in their service execution. Should be fully capable of meeting most services without direction. Work products should demonstrate consistent high quality tradecraft application. Expected to assist lower level personnel in developing tradecraft skill in order to meet work objectives. Expected to collaborate with Government and other stakeholders in the performance of services. Such collaboration should provide accurate technical information that contributes to synergized analysis that is better than the sum of the individual parts. 

The Time Dominant Collections Specialist – performs and manages collection activities of GEOINT based sources in support of time dominant operations.  Skills required, but not limited to, include:

• Previous experience utilizing GEOINT collection management information systems

• Previous experience with GEOINT collection capabilities and methods

• Ability to produce GEOINT products to NGA standards and quality

• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic 24/7/365 environment as a team-member

• Ability to communicate with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written

• Demonstrated familiarity in the functional mission areas and key intelligence issues

Skills Required:

• Ability to produce GEOINT products to NGA standards and quality

• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as a team-member

• Ability to communicate with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written

• Demonstrate familiarity in the functional mission areas and key intelligence issues

Skills Desired:

• Understanding of Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and application of ABI methodologies

• Previous experience utilizing GEOINT collection management information systems

• Previous experience utilizing GEOINT analytical databases and reporting tools

• Previous experience performing first phase GEOINT work

• Previous experience with collection capabilities and methods

Junior-Level:

• HS Degree

• Min 3 combined experience

Mid-Level:

• Some college experience

• Min 5 combined experience

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Mid-level Systems Engineers employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include: 

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Performs systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience of 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.

• 6+ years of working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• 6+ years of experience working systems engineering in government or industry.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages. Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Associate Systems engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations:

  • ACSM

  • ASCE

  • ASPRS

  • OGC

  • SAREM

  • USGIF

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Software Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Software Engineer assist in leading the design and development of software solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture.  The Senior-Level Software Engineer understands/performs software development and assists with making high-level design choices and helps identify technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Develop and manage the source code to support of baseline service deployments.  Support the integration of code baselines into the production instance. Add functionality to allow edits of published entities outside the baseline cycle to correct mistakes.

Duties include:

• Guides Mid-Level and Junior-Level software engineers in the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of software requirements ensuring traceability to solution architecture and requirements.

• Assists with the analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing software systems.

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level software engineers in the development of proposed changes to the software solutions architecture design based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assist with high-level software design choices and technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

• Creates prototypes to evaluate new technologies.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Senior-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including:

• Experience in more than one of the following areas: cloud computing, service orientation, containerization, micro-services, API development or DevSecOps.

• Experience building and delivering working products to customers in a modern, cloud-based software environment. Client Servers and managing MySQL database operations in a web environment.

• Experience with:  Java, Java Script, JSP, HIBERNATE, TOMCAT, HTML 5, and CSS

Desired:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information 

• Systems, or related STEM degree program.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Sr. Requirements Engineer are Systems Engineers that apply a structured approach to design and implementation of systems and processes. They capture and translate mission and customer requirements to transform them into capabilities, testing, and validation of services.  Requirements Engineers analyze and allocate requirements to systems architecture components and oversee the development, testing, and validation of systems and services. They also coordinate the integration of systems and services into enterprise architecture and oversee deployment. They are responsible to the program Chief Engineer and the engineering team to achieve desired outcomes for the customer.

Duties may include:

• Decomposing and allocating strategic level requirements/needs from ECDs, SOCs, ICBDs, CDDs, and Agency CONOPS, as appropriate.

• Maintaining consistency with the Agency’s requirements process and CIO-T strategy while developing engineering artifacts, requirements documentation, and business cases.

• Implementing strategic plans and programs in coordination with senior internal and external stakeholders.

• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with NGA Integrated Program Offices, segments, matrixed technical offices, other NGA acquisition offices, and process stakeholders.

• Interfacing with the Agency Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) system.

• Developing and maintaining a Requirements Traceability Verification Matrix (RVTM) for the program to ensure all requirements are allocated and tested as needed.

• Developing and maintaining program performance measures.

• Developing, communicating, and participating in systems engineering projects or boards; applying in-depth knowledge to committees and working groups that plan, collaborate, and execute systems programs and initiatives.

• Ensuring management is informed of all issues, risks and opportunities in a timely manner.

• Use the Joint Architecture Reference Models (JARM) to describe, analyze, and identify potential architectural service gaps, support AOA, leverage existing resources, and assist with invest and divest decisions for the program and the agency.

• Capture strategic Sensor Program requirements from associated Concept of Operations Documents.

• Guiding Mid-, and Junior-level Requirements Engineers.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• 12 to 18 years of experience

• Senior-level or higher experience working in a Requirements Engineering discipline or a closely related field that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the tasks associated with this work.

• Experience tracing program/project requirements to the source requirement such as the Joint Architecture Reference Models (JARM), and JARM Technical Service Types (TSTs) for duplication analysis and gap analysis.

• Ability to coordinate with users and stakeholders to develop Sensor program requirements for new and changing mission needs.

• Working experience with NGA/NRO joint integration activities

• Working knowledge of NGA IPO infrastructure

Desired:

• Master’s degree in a related STEM degree program.

• Knowledge of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.

• Familiarity with NGA’s Request for Change (RFC) process to validate and assign program requirements to NGA segments.

• Familiarity with agile development to include participation in scrums, development of solution epics, lean business cases, program epics, user stories, and features.

• Scrum master experience.

• Experience using DOORS Next Generation (DOORS NG) to manage requirements and interface with Enterprise Requirements Management.

• Experience with tools such as JIRA, CONFLUENCE, and Tableau for tracking requirements, documentation, and backlog progress.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Software Architect (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:

Senior-level Software Architects assist in leading the design and development of software solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture.  The Senior-Level Software Architect understands/performs software development and assists with making high-level design choices and helps identify technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

Duties include:

• Guides Mid-Level and Junior-Level software architects in the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of software solution architectures ensuring traceability to the Enterprise architecture and Enterprise requirements.

• Assists with the analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing software systems.

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level software architects in the development of proposed changes to the software solutions architecture design based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assist with high-level software design choices and technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Experience in more than one of the following areas: cloud computing, service orientation, containerization, micro-services, API development or DevSecOps.

• Experience building and delivering working products to customers in a modern, cloud-based software environment.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

• Experience with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) or Intelligence Community’s (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG).

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, System Engineering, or a related STEM Degree Program, or equivalent Senior level experience as a Software Architect.

• Senior-level or higher experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Software Architecture and Design, or Data Architecture.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Software Architect (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Software Architects assist in leading the design and development of software solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture.  The Senior-Level Software Architect understands/performs software development and assists with making high-level design choices and helps identify technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

Duties include:

• Guides Mid-Level and Junior-Level software architects in the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of software solution architectures ensuring traceability to the Enterprise architecture and Enterprise requirements.

• Assists with the analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing software systems.

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level software architects in the development of proposed changes to the software solutions architecture design based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assist with high-level software design choices and technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

Skills and Experience:

Required Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, System Engineering, or a related STEM Degree Program, or equivalent Senior level experience as a Software Architect.

• Senior-level or higher experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Software Architecture and Design, or Data Architecture.

• Experience in more than one of the following areas: cloud computing, service orientation, containerization, micro-services, API development or DevSecOps.

• Experience building and delivering working products to customers in a modern, cloud-based software environment.

Desired Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program. 

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

• Experience with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) or Intelligence Community’s (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG).

Security Clearance:

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

Junior-level Systems Engineers employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Assists Mid-Level engineers and the Government in requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists in planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Assists in develop solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• Junior-level (3 - 6 yrs) or higher experience working systems engineering in government or industry.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering Experience and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• Working knowledge in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Sr. Systems Integrator support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise.  They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.

Duties may include:

• Assists with leading and performing systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

• Assists with leading and overseeing a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.

• Assists with overseeing the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages.

• Guides the work of Mid and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience of 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.

• 12+ years of systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

Desired:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Sr. Requirements Engineer

Requirements Engineers are System Engineers apply a structured approach to design and implementation of systems and processes.  They capture and translate mission and customer requirements to transform them into capabilities, testing, and validation of services.  Requirements Engineers analyze and allocate requirements to systems architecture components and oversee the development, testing, and validation of systems and services. They also coordinate the integration of systems and services into enterprise architecture and oversee deployment.  They are responsible to the program Chief Engineer and the engineering team to achieve desired outcomes for the customer.

Duties may include:

• Decomposing and allocating strategic level requirements/needs from ECDs, SOCs, ICBDs, CDDs, and Agency CONOPS, as appropriate

• Maintaining consistency with the Agency’s requirements process and CIO-T strategy while developing engineering artifacts, requirements documentation, and business cases

• Implementing strategic plans and programs in coordination with senior internal and external stakeholders

• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with NGA Integrated Program Offices, segments, matrixed technical offices, other NGA acquisition offices, and process stakeholders

• Interfacing with the Agency Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) system

• Developing and maintaining a Requirements Traceability Verification Matrix (RVTM) for the program to ensure all requirements are allocated and tested as needed

• Developing and maintaining program performance measures

• Developing, communicating, and participating in systems engineering projects or boards; applying in-depth knowledge to committees and working groups that plan, collaborate, and execute systems programs and initiatives

• Ensuring management is informed of all issues, risks and opportunities in a timely manner

• Use the Joint Architecture Reference Models (JARM) to describe, analyze, and identify potential architectural service gaps, support AOA, leverage existing resources, and assist with invest and divest decisions for the program and the agency

• Capture strategic Sensor Program requirements from associated Concept of Operations Documents

• Guiding Mid, and Junior-level Requirements Engineers

Education and Experience:

Required:

• 12 to 18 years of experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related STEM degree program, -or- 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree

• Senior-level or higher experience working in a Requirements Engineering discipline or a closely related field that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the tasks associated with this work.

• Experience tracing program/project requirements to the source requirement such as the Joint Architecture Reference Models (JARM), and JARM Technical Service Types (TSTs) for duplication analysis and gap analysis.

• Ability to coordinate with users and stakeholders to develop Sensor program requirements for new and changing mission needs.

• Direct experience supporting NGA/NRO and/or mission partners.

• Experience integrating spectral data into spectral exploitation tools, Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI)

• NGA system and segment knowledge

• Good EO/IR Sys Eng experience

• Experience across range of system lifecycle work

• Writing and decomposing requirements

• Cloud Computing solution architectures and analysis

• Hyper-Spectral imaging hardware or software integration background

• Image processing experience

• Experience using FSTK Tools

• Experience in certification/ accreditation/ authorization of infrastructure onto the network

• Experience with NGA’s infrastructure organization

• Agile development environment and process familiarity, e.g., JIRA

Desired:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Knowledge of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.

• Familiarity with NGA’s Request for Change (RFC) process to validate and assign program requirements to NGA segments.

• Familiarity with agile development to include participation in scrums, development of solution epics, lean business cases, program epics, user stories, and features.  

• Scrum master experience.

• Experience using DOORS Next Generation (DOORS NG) to manage requirements and interface with Enterprise Requirements Management.

• Experience with tools such as JIRA, CONFLUENCE, and Tableau for tracking requirements, documentation, and backlog progress.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Sr. Systems Engineer guide engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies

• Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations 

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs. 

• Performs systems integration activities

• Conducts Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design 

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries

Education and Experience

Required:

• 12 to 18 years of experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related STEM degree program, or 4 years of equivalent additional experience

• Senior-level or higher experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures

• Experience with and understanding of systems engineering lifecycle

• Working experience with NGA/NRO joint integration activities

• Working knowledge of NGA IPO infrastructure

Desired: 

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related STEM degree program

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages

• Working knowledge of Digital Engineering, processes, and tools. 

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks

• INCOSE Certified Systems engineering Professional (CSEP) certification. 

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence

• Licensure as a professional engineer

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:  ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF 

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience 

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Senior-level Systems Integrators support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise. They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.

Duties may include: 

• Assists with leading and performing systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

• Assists with leading and overseeing a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.  

• Assists with overseeing the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages.

• Guides the work of Mid- and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.  

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.

• 12+ years of experience of systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Expert-level Systems Integrators support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise.  They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools. 

Duties may include:

• Leads and performs systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

• Leads and oversees a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.

• Oversees the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages.

• Guides the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• Expert-level (18+ years) systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

Desired:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Senior-level Systems Engineers guide engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include: 

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Performs systems integration activities.

• Conducts Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures. 

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle. 

Desired:

• Understanding of image metadata and various imaging formats.

• Understanding of compression and packetization of images.

• Understanding of ABI tradecraft.

• Understanding of image handling and dissemination by data systems.

• Understanding of test and evaluation of image products.

• Understanding of contract and funding complexities for government acquisition programs.

Highly Desired Qualifications:

• Degree or education in image science, physics, math or Modeling, Simulation and Analysis.

• Experience in Image Science.

• Experience with Modeling, Simulation and Analysis.

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Sr. Systems Integrator to support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise. They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.

Duties may include:

• Assists with leading and performing systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

• Assists with leading and overseeing a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.

• Assists with overseeing the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages.

• Guides the work of Mid- and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• Senior-level or higher (12 to 18 years of experience) systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

We’re looking for a Mid-Level Systems Engineer to play a key role in delivering mission-critical GEOINT capabilities across the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System for Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and other partner Federal Agencies. In this role, you’ll support the entire systems engineering lifecycle—from requirements analysis and architecture design to testing, integration, and sustainment. Your contributions will ensure GEOINT systems are reliable, resilient, and aligned with evolving mission needs.

Duties may include:

• Perform systems engineering tasks across all phases:

  • Requirements analysis

  • Solution and service architecture

  • Scheduling and integration

  • Reliability and resiliency engineering

  • Testing, evaluation, and maintainability

• Analyze and trace user and system requirements to architecture and design components

• Review and recommend improvements to cloud services, workflows, and scheduling systems

• Design technical solutions based on emerging technologies and mission needs

• Mentor junior engineers and support skills development in systems engineering

• Translate mission and customer needs into capability requirements and solution designs

• Support system integration efforts and ensure seamless implementation

• Contribute to:

  • Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs)

  • Courses of Action (CoAs)

  • Trade studies and engineering assessments

• Assist with strategic planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design

Why Join Us?

• Work at the forefront of national security and intelligence missions

• Collaborate with a high-impact, multidisciplinary team

• Engage with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to real-world solutions

• Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship

Education & Experience

Required:

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG, ASG, and NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) enterprises

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in:

  • Systems Engineering OR a related technical/scientific field such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, or Management Information Systems

  • OR six (6) years of relevant Systems Engineering experience in lieu of a degree

• Minimum of six (6) years of experience in government or industry in one or more of the following areas:

  • DoD or Intelligence Community (IC) Acquisition Processes

  • Requirements development processes

  • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)\Systems engineering of large, complex System of Systems (SoS) or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)/Cloud environments

Desired:

Technical Knowledge & Skills

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including related tools, languages, and methodologies

• Familiarity with Software Development Frameworks

• Working knowledge of one or more of the following domains:

  • Photogrammetry

  • Remote sensing

  • Image science

  • Information sciences

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

  • Geomatics

  • Related geospatial fields

Certifications & Professional Involvement:

• INCOSE Associate Systems Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification

• Documented work experience in the Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) field

• Membership or active participation in professional organizations such as:

  • ACSM (American Congress on Surveying and Mapping)

  • ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)

  • ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)

  • OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)

  • SAREM (Society for American Remote Earth Monitoring)

  • USGIF (United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation)

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Expert):

Overall Assignment Description:

Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Expert working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Doctorate in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Software Development Framework certification.

• INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF.

• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

Education and Experience:

• 18+ years' experience.

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Systems Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Make an impact at the intersection of mission, technology, and intelligence.

As a Mid-Level Systems Engineer, you’ll apply a multi-disciplinary systems engineering approach to deliver timely, accurate Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) across the National System of Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and U.S. Federal Agencies. You’ll help translate complex mission needs into scalable, resilient technical solutions that directly support national security objectives.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and support systems engineering activities across the full lifecycle, including requirements development, solution design, integration, testing, evaluation, reliability, resiliency, and maintainability.

• Analyze and translate user and mission requirements into system and capability requirements, ensuring full traceability from architecture to implementation.

• Design and evaluate system architectures, workflows, and cloud service capabilities, identifying opportunities to automate or improve existing systems.

• Develop technical solutions leveraging emerging technologies, while mentoring junior engineers and helping grow their systems engineering skillsets.

• Support government stakeholders with systems integration, execution planning, and architecture allocation across programs.

• Contribute to Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (CoAs), trade studies, and engineering assessments to inform technical and programmatic decisions.

• Assist with strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.

Why This Role:

• Work on mission-critical systems that support GEOINT at a national and allied level.

• Gain exposure to complex, large-scale systems and cutting-edge technologies.

• Grow as a technical leader while mentoring others and influencing system-level decisions.

• Partner directly with government customers to solve real-world operational challenges.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or a related STEM AND minimum of 6 years' of Mid-level Systems Engineering experience in government or industry -OR- 12 years' of equivalent mid-level Systems Engineering experience may be considered in lieu of a degree with a minimum of 6 years' of Mid-level Systems Engineering experience in government or industry.

• Experience supporting large, complex systems, including System-of-Systems or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or cloud-based environments.

• Working experience with one or more of the following government processes:

  • DoD / Intelligence Community (IC) acquisition processes

  • Requirements development and management processes

  • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)

Core Skills

• Requirements analysis and traceability across the systems engineering lifecycle.

• Systems integration support within complex technical environments.

Desired: 

Technical Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including associated processes, tools, and modeling languages.

• Familiarity with modern software development frameworks.

Certifications & Professional Engagement

• INCOSE Associate Systems Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Membership or active participation in professional organizations such as:

  • ACSM

  • ASCE

  • ASPRS

  • OGC

  • SAREM

  • USGIF

Domain Expertise

• Documented experience supporting geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) missions or programs.

• Working knowledge of GEOINT-related disciplines, including photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems (GIS), geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated familiarity with the National System of Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and/or NRO enterprise environments.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Mid Level Systems Engineer employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties May include: 

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Education and Experience

Required:

• 6 to 12 years of experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related STEM degree program, or equivalent Mid level experience as a Systems Engineer.

• Mid-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Mid-level working system engineering experience in government or industry.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Associate System Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF.

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Expert):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include: 

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology. 

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises. 

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Expert working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Doctorate in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Software Development Framework certification.

• INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF.

• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

Education and Experience:

• 18+ years' experience.

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Systems Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Systems Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Systems Engineers guide engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties may include:

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Performs systems integration activities.

• Conducts Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Senior-level or higher experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with and understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Digital Engineering, processes, and tools.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Certified Systems engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

SAR Integration Engineer (Senior-Level)

Senior-level Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Integration Engineers are responsible for leading the development of program and project integration solutions across the enterprise and determining integration/interface requirements. They work with systems engineers, solutions architects and programmers to ensure applications and systems interoperate to deliver end-to-end mission solutions and maintain the integrity of the system-of-system enterprise.

Duties may include:

• Provides a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of hardware and software components.

• Plans, coordinates, and documents solutions to total systems or subsystems using internally created and/or commercial off-the-shelf products.

• Analyses, designs, tests, and evaluates systems that handle Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data through the TPED process.

• Plans and coordinates data management practices to treat and handle data as a resource.

• Guides the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Integration Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• 12+ years' experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Imagery Analysis, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• Experience in government or industry integrating systems that process SAR data.

• Senior-level experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

Desired:

• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Imagery Analysis, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Experience Integrating solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience Integrating solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

• Experience Integrating solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph, if needed.

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.