Technical Support Specialist (Engineer Systems 3) 30391
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Virginia Beach, VA - USA
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Job Summary
Requisition Number:30391
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type:Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range:$90872.00-$103000.00
Security Clearance:Top Secret
Level of Experience:Mid
This opportunity resides with Global Security (GS).Mission Technologies Global Security (GS) group comprises live virtual constructive (LVC) solutions; fleet sustainment; nuclear and environmental; and Australia business.
As a trusted partner to our military customers HII designs develops and operates the largest LVC enterprise that prepares warfighters for cross-domain battle. With advanced technologies to enable mission readiness HII understands that preparation requires full coordinationnot readiness in piece-parts.
For more than 40 years the U.S. Navy has entrusted HII to maintain and modernize the vast majority of its fleet. With a holistic approach to life-cycle maritime defense systemsfrom small watercraft to submarines surface combatants and aircraft carriersHII ensures a high state of readiness.
HII supports the Department of Energys national security mission through the management and operation of its sites as well as the safe cleanup of legacy waste across the country. HII meets clients toughest nuclear and environmental challenges.
Leadership Mindset at HII Mission Technologies
Leadership at HII is a mindset not a title. Through our Leadership Capability Framework we define how every employee grows leads and contributesregardless of role. It sets the standard for how you can develop yourself and what you can expect from leaders across our organization. We look for candidates who want to grow in alignment with these capabilities:
- Know & Grow Your People Commit to learning and supporting team success.
- Build Relationships Communicate openly collaborate well and build trust.
- Take Ownership Deliver on commitments and take pride in your work.
- Customer First Focus on the mission and those we serve.
- Shape the Future Bring ideas curiosity and continuous improvement.
- Act with Urgency Take initiative and follow through with purpose.
These capabilities guide how all employees contribute to our shared success across Mission Technologies.
Mission Technologies a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries is seeking a qualified candidate for the role of Technical Support Specialist Systems Engineer 3. This position supports the Navy Surface Warfare Center Corona (NSWC Corona) in delivering Navy Live Virtual and Constructive (LVC) training.
The selected individual will provide technical leadership and engineering support to the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) and the Navy Training Baseline (NTB) as part of the NCTE Mission Engineering Division (MED).
This role is based at NAS Oceana Dam Neck Annex in Virginia Beach Virginia and requires periodic local travel to additional customer sites in Virginia Beach and Norfolk.
The position also requires flexibility as duties and responsibilities may be adjusted to meet evolving business customer and contractual needs.
- Responsibilities include leading the planning and execution of LVC training events deploying and configuring NTB software components across the NCTE enterprise and performing engineering and project tasks that sustain LVC products and integrated capabilities.
- Serve as the Engineering Technical Lead in support to NCTE Fleet Synthetic Training (FST) LVC and COCOM level training events collaborating closely with operational and engineering leads to define align and execute comprehensive technical requirements.
- Serve as a member of the NCTE Engineering Sustainment Team installing and configuring new NTB software releases upgrades and patches.
- Provide engineering related support for NTB setup and configuration during the planning and execution of training events.
- Evaluate and resolve moderately complex software related problems.
- Partner with multi-disciplinary divisions and cross-functional leadership to develop robust manning/resourcing plans for NCTE training event
- execution.
- Perform pre-event interoperability risk assessment and mitigation by working with stake holders to identify capabilities and limitations of various integrated training systems virtual simulators live ships and other LVC event participants to meet training requirements and objectives.
- Architect scalable systems supporting event-specific requirements; generate and maintain formal architecture artifacts (e.g. DoDAF SV-1 and SV-2) using tools such as Microsoft Visio.
- Develop and maintain technical architecture configuration and status documentation.
- Direct real-time technical operations and monitor end-to-end system health of NTB products during LVC event execution to ensure uninterrupted training delivery.
- Diagnose troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across LVC environments specifically focusing on NTB Interoperability simulation protocols (HLA/DIS) and interface standards.
- Deliver rapid real-time technical support during LVC training exercises with integrated systems and capabilities to eliminate protocol misconfigurations and minimize impact on training fidelity.
- 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
- Candidate must have a thorough understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems and be able to use advanced capabilities such as (but not limited to): command line interface scripting network interface configuration device configuration domain management and file sharing/mapping.
- Candidate must have technical leadership ability and be able to address technical issues by understanding which engineering domain problems belong to and then assign engineers from the appropriate domains to resolve issues.
- Candidate must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be comfortable communicating at various levels of the organization. This may involve lower-level technical collaboration on issues with assigned engineers or high level explanation of issues and/or status updates with senior leadership.
- Candidate must be familiar with MS Office.
- Candidate must have a current CompTIA Security certification.
- Candidate must currently hold and be able to maintain a US Top Secret clearance.
- Familiarity with core simulation software systems such as Joint Semi-Automated Forces (JSAF) Next Generation Threat System (NGTS) or Joint Theater Level Simulation Global Operations (JTLS-GO).
- Ability to utilize network and distributed modeling & simulation tools such as Wireshark tcpdump VMware vSphere Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI) FederateList/Houston and Joint Simulation Bus (JBUS) is preferred.
- Knowledge of distributed simulation protocols such as High Level Architecture (HLA) and Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS).
- Familiarity with networking concepts architectures and protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP.
- Experience with MS Visio software to produce technical architecture drawings.
- Knowledge of Navy C4I tactical systems such as Link 16 and GCCS.
- Experience working with Navy systems and/or commands.
The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the roles location expectations and responsibilities. When extending an offer HIIs Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include but are not limited to the roles function and a candidates education or training work experience and key skills.
Meet HIIs Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR AI and Big Data cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role thats right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.
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HII is more than a job - its an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.
Why HII
We build the worlds most powerful survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas sky land space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.
Recognized as one of Americas top large company employers we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts peoples safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve at HII youll find a supportive and welcoming environment competitive benefits and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.
Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin physical or mental disability age or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal state or local law.
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About Company
America's largest shipbuilder with 140+ years advancing U.S. national security — delivering powerful naval vessels, unmanned systems, and all-domain defense technologies.
