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The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Engineering Lead as required to lead and perform project test and exercise related activities. Candidate will be expected to participate and support the execution of tests and exercise of varying scope and complexity, as determined by the Engineering Lead and approved by the NATO customer. Supporting efforts may include maintaining project schedules, estimating test efforts, working with systems engineering tools, and interfacing with customers, users, product developers, and other stakeholders.\nThe above activities involve generation of documentation in UK English, as well as communicating with programme office personnel, stakeholders, and National Representatives in conferences and meetings in UK English. Travel is expected to be about 20%.\nQualifications:\nCandidate must have a Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering/technical discipline from an accredited college, and 15 years’ experience in systems engineering and integration; or a Masters and 12 years’ experience.\n\nMust have a current active NATO Secret level security clearance. Top Secret preferred.\n\nHigh ability in speaking, writing, and understanding English is essential. All on-site work will be conducted in English. All personnel working on-site shall have a minimum required level of English language of SLP3333 as defined in NATO STANAG 6001.\n\nDemonstrates initiative and a strong work ethic, works well within an engineering team, mission oriented, and takes personal pride in work.\n\nEagerness to collaborate with multinational stakeholders, system architects, engineers, and operational users\n\nWillingness to lead and serve as an independent contributor in the daily activities of small technical teams\n\nRequired skills are as follows:\nUnderstanding and familiarity of the BMD domain and operational events\n\nExperience in communication requirements verification such as JREAP, Link-16, DIS, HLA as examples with the technical experience to be a strong independent contributor\n\nInvestigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex TDL system and network issues\n\nAbility to conduct link system performance assessments using a variety of COTS/GOTS C2 systems and tools such as TDACS, LMMT, NSITE, JRE\n\nExperience with allocating requirements to test, development of test plans, test cases, architectures and test procedures\n\nExperience with performing tests, collecting results, and conducting analysis of the test results\n\nDeep understanding of TDL standards publications such as STANAG 5516, STANAG 5518, STANAG 5522, and APP 11 (E)\n\nExperience in communicating readiness statuses and briefing post mission results to Customers\n\nDesired skills are as follows:\nExperience with the NATO BMD architecture and operational test activities\n\nExperience in the configuration of operational networks supporting BMD and/or IAMD events/activities\n\nExperience in verifying requirements such as WAN/LAN, voice and satellite communications (SATCOM) on an operational architecture/domain\n\nKnowledge of link budget analysis and TDMA/FDMA/CDMA\n\nCompletion of JT-101, JT-102, and JT-201 courses.\n\nDevelopment of OPTASKLINKs and network libraries utilized in operational events\n\nExperience deriving Task Orders, deliverables and tasks in coordination with Customers\n\nExperience with operating toolsets such as Jira, TestRail, Wireshark\n\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nFor U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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