Simulation Specialist jobs in Baltimore, MD

Overview

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a full-time Modeling & Simulation Specialist supporting US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) NC3 Enterprise Center (NEC) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I).

The SE&I Division serves as the principal enterprise systems engineering, enterprise architecture, and technical authority for the NC3 Enterprise within the Department of Defense. As the lead NC3 Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) arm of the NC3 Enterprise Center, the division applies and remains up to date on systems engineering best practices and translates mission and operational requirements into appropriate technical specifications and solutions. SE&I also has the responsibility to apply established standards, and, when necessary, develop new standards, to ensure seamless interoperability across the NC3 enterprise. The SE&I is comprised of 3 branches:

Enterprise Sustainment & EvolutionEnterprise Performance & CapabilitiesEnterprise Mission Management

Responsibilities

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Conduct mission engineering studies to guide decisions focused on the end-to-end mission to identify new or enhanced capabilities and provide impacts of performance levels on NC3 system of systems
• Provide system engineering expertise to evaluate and ensure upgrades, integration, test, transformation efforts of NC3/NLCC systems and sub-components are executed as planned
• Support limited scope technical quick reaction (e.g. two weeks turn around) analysis of NC3/NLCC systems issues in support of the NC3/NLCC community
• Advise and assist the Government in defining of NC3 Enterprise Figures of Merit (FOM) target for model base systems engineering and mission engineering (ME) studies
• Support the execution of computer simulations and assessments evaluating the impacts of nuclear weapons and tactics of adversaries on the NC3 communication systems
• Advise and assist the Government in the development of a transition plan for the implementation of mission engineering study recommendations
• Assess the NLCC/NC3 architecture using computer simulations and models to evaluate how well communications work in a benign and stressed nuclear environment; generate reports and briefs using the results

Qualifications

Minimum Experience

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen 

• Modeling and simulation functions or operations such as plans, coordination, demonstrations, and instruction for health, environmental, transportation, law enforcement, military, or civil agencies, and support to live, constructive, or virtual training.
• Strong knowledge and experience of DoD and AF acquisition processes, policies, procedures, and statutory/regulatory requirement
• Strong knowledge and experience implementing the DoD Systems Engineering “V” Model
• Experience supporting the development, analysis, and implementation of an Agile DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery model of software development, integration, and deployment; Cloud technologies; and microservice architectures
• Experience supporting Hardware/Software quality control by, evaluating programs regarding development, maintenance, testing, and quality assurance

Preferred QualificationsEducation:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar technical field and 5 years' relevant experience providing dedicated support to modeling and simulation functions or operations such as plans, coordination, demonstrations, and instruction for health, environmental, transportation, law enforcement, military, or civil agencies, and support to live, constructive, or virtual training, OR

Additional Experience:

• Experience supporting USSTRATCOM weapon systems and/or capabilities (desired)

Additional InformationLocation:  Fort Meade, onsiteTravel: 0-10%

Benefits & Compensation:

• Apogee offers two medical plans, a high deductible health plan with an HRA and a traditional POS plan with co-pays, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, PTO, paid holidays, parental, military, and jury duty paid leaves.  Regular part-time employees scheduled for twenty-four or more hours per work week are eligible for benefits on a pro-rated basis.
• The base pay for this position ranges from $85,000 to $125,000. Base pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, experience, skills, abilities, training and education. 

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