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You will work with the customer's engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and test-and-evaluation stakeholders, alongside a Peraton Labs delivery team of engineers and technical writers. The goal is to define requirements, survey the market, evaluate candidate products, and deliver defensible recommendations that guide the customer's procurement decisions.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nContribute to end-to-end solutions analysis for one or more workstreams: elicit and validate requirements, and help produce System Requirements Specifications (SRS) with traceability to NERC CIP, FISMA, and CISA Zero Trust Architecture.\nSupport market research to identify candidate commercial products across identity and access controls, network monitoring and threat visibility, and inventory / configuration / vulnerability management.\nHelp draft Requests for Information (RFIs), review vendor responses, and participate in technical engagement with bidders under federal market-research guardrails.\nAssess vendor responses and product capabilities against requirements; contribute to comparison reports and down-select recommendations.\nContribute to lab test environment design and test plans; observe or participate in hands-on product demonstrations and evaluation at customer and Peraton Labs facilities.\nCo-author Alternative Solutions Analysis (ASA) documents and support steering-committee and executive briefings.\nBring lived-experience perspective from a federal hydropower-marketing / multi-regional transmission operator to workshops that align requirements across operational technology (SCADA, EMS, RTUs, protective relays, industrial protocols) and enterprise IT cybersecurity domains.\nQualifications\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nU.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust determination and PIV credential for unescorted access to the customer facility.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline, and 8+ years of progressive systems architecture, cyber engineering, or grid operations engineering experience; in lieu of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience will be considered.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience across both operational technology (OT / ICS) and enterprise information technology (IT) security environments.\nDirect hands-on experience delivering OT / ICS cybersecurity work inside a bulk-electric-system operating environment, as a full-time technical contributor accountable for production operations - not solely as an external consultant.\nHands-on experience applying NERC CIP standards (CIP-002 through CIP-014) inside a bulk-electric-system operating environment.\nStrong technical writing and stakeholder-communication skills.\nAvailability for approximately 20 hours per week, with reasonable flexibility around program milestones (requirements workshops, vendor demonstrations, lab test windows).\nAbility to travel domestically up to 25%, including routine trips to the Pacific Northwest.\nDESIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nPrior work supporting a federal or federal-adjacent hydropower-marketing or multi-regional transmission operator (as an employee, contractor, or seconded engineer).\nWorking familiarity with FISMA controls and CISA Zero Trust Architecture mappings.\nExperience with grid-operations technology at scale: SCADA / EMS lifecycle, sensor networks and PMU / WAMS deployments, situational-awareness platforms, and substation-automation environments.\nBalancing Authority operations experience, including participation in a Western energy market (e.g., CAISO EIM or SPP WEIS / RTO West), and familiarity with reliability-coordination interactions under WECC and/or MRO oversight.\nFamiliarity with DOE CESER programs and national-lab collaborations (PNNL, INL, NREL, SNL), including CyTRICS and CyOTE.\nPrior involvement in stakeholder engagement with preference customers, tribal governments, and public-power / cooperative utility partners.\nDepth in one or more component domains: identity and access management; network detection and monitoring; packet capture and data diodes; cyber-asset and configuration management; or vulnerability and patch management for embedded devices.\nExperience with privileged access management (PAM) solutions.\nExperience with log and traffic monitoring systems supporting power protection, SCADA, and telecommunications environments.\nExperience with configuration management systems for power protection, SCADA, and telecommunications environments.\nExperience authoring alternatives analyses under a formal systems-lifecycle methodology (utility SLC, DoDAF, NIST RMF, or comparable).\nIndustry certifications such as GICSP, CISSP, GRID, CISA, or NERC-CIP-focused credentials.\nExperience presenting to federal or utility executive steering committees.\nComfort operating under federal market-research guardrails (open information exchange with vendors; no NDAs; no procurement commitments).\nWORKING CONDITIONS\n Location / posture: Remote (U.S.-based); fully remote day-to-day.\nSchedule: Part-time, approximately 20 hours per week, with flexibility around program milestones. Standard business hours preferred; occasional evening or weekend availability during lab test windows or scheduled vendor demonstrations.\nTravel: Up to 25% domestic; routine trips to the Pacific Northwest; periodic trips to the Peraton Labs ICS Lab in New Jersey.\nCustomer interaction: Frequent during active workshops and evaluations - requirements sessions, vendor engagements, steering-committee briefings. Requires professionalism, strong communication, and resilience in multi-stakeholder consensus-building.\n Onboarding: Background check, PIV credential, and customer-required training must be completed prior to unescorted facility access.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\nTarget Salary Range\n$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. 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