Mission Support Specialist

VOR technology is seeking a Mission Support Specialist with VMware experience.  The candidate will work as a member of a team responsible for the operations and maintenance of a customer processing system.

*All Candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph

• At least 5 years' of systems engineering experience with a strong Linux background
• Experience operating and troubleshooting GOTS and COTS back-end processors.
• Experience producing signal and dataflow documentation.
• Strong scripting and debugging/troubleshooting skills (Bash, shell, Java script, etc...)
• Five (5) years' collective hands-on experience with SIGINT system and subsystem level tasking, configuration, normalization, survey, equipment configuration, basic signal analysis, interpretation of system health indications and parameters and routing processes.

Minimum of 5 years' configuring and tasking experience in at least two (2) of the specializations listed below:

1. Signal Analysis: Experience with digital/optical telecommunications systems to include Bell, CEPT, or SDH/PDH digital communications signals and the payload data within these signal structures. Analysis experience with randomization, forward error correction and performing bit-level analysis of computer communications protocols.
2. Modern Tele-communications System and Networks: Optical Transport Network (OTN) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Optical Networks (SONET), SDH and PDH, LAN/WAN Networks, IP Networks, and ATM switches.
3. Telephony Switching System: Experience with normalization and mapping. Able to generate component/system specifications and identify solutions.
4. Communications Systems: Knowledge of internet communications. Experience with metadata, protocols, addressing, and routing of internet and computer systems.
5. Cellular/Personal Communications Systems: experience studying, designing, developing, exploiting, and/or testing components or systems that modulate or demodulate mobile cellular/personal communications systems. Experience with standards associated with 2G/3G/4G systems. Experience with the cellular communication processes including frequency reuse, cell splitting, self-location, paging, call initiation, hand-off, and roaming.

Minimum of 4 years’ experience configuring and tasking the collection and processing systems in at least four (4) of the specialization categories listed below:

I. Switching and Survey: SWITCH CONTROL, CIENA CoreDirector/5430, M557, GLIMMERGLASS, LL209, LIGHTREGEN, ACS, LIGHTRAID, Avvio, or equivalent

II. Circuit Processing: CIRCUIT RAPTOR, LOPERS, JUGGERNAUT, UNITY, DSD, or equivalent.

III. Packet Processing: PACKET RAPTOR,TURMOIL, TUMULT, WEALTHYCLUSTER, TRIREME, XKEYSCORE, TELLURIAN, or equivalent

IV. Distribution: MAILORDER, DSD, ISLANDTRANSPORT, NIAGARAFILES, Network Pump, QUICKPOINT, or equivalent

V. Filtering & Selection: XKEYSCORE, COURIERSKILL, KEYCARD, BLACKNIGHT, CADENCE, UTT/SSDM, or equivalent

VI. Monitoring: COMMONVIEW, TUMMS, or equivalent VII. Analytic Tools: ONEROOF, UIS, or equivalent 

Minimum of 4 years ‘experience using the databases/tools listed in at least three (3) of the specialization categories listed below:

I. Circuit: NUCLEON, NORMALRUN/CHEWSTICK/FALLENORACLE, FASCIA/BANYAN/ASSOCIATION/NITESURF, MAINWAY, TUSKATTIRE, MDR-2, GNAT

II. Packet: XKEYSCORE, MARINA,TUNINGFORK, BLACKPEARL, SPLITGLASS, JOLLYROGER, PINWALE/AGILITY, DATAEXPLORER, MDR-2

III. Environmental Knowledge: TWISTEDPATH, YELLOWSTONE, CINEPLEX, GLOBALREACH, TUNINGFORK, TREASUREMAP, MDR-2, REFLECTIONPOOL

IV. Signals Characterization: TRAILMAPPER, TAROTCARD, WIRESHARK, PACKETSWING, Xbit, DVT, WVT, BSAW, SAT, ATMProc, SDH Demux, CREEK

V. Target Analysis/Reporting: UTT/OCTAVE, CPE, SCORPIOFORE, PINWALE/AGILITY, PLUS/ANCHORY/MAUI, YELLOWSTONE/SPLITGLASS, Global Reach, Target Modeling Tool, USR, TKB, GRAPEVINE, DATAEXPLORER, MDR-1, MDR-2, TUNINGFORK, and designated AMOD tools

Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree (Computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business or related field)

Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope clearance
* US citizenship is required.

EOE/M/F/D/V