Senior Cybersecurity Integrator

Travel Requirement: Security Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance

Sherpa 6 is seeking an experienced Senior Counter-Unmanned Systems (C-sUAS) Systems Integrator to provide direct technical and program support to government capability managers in Fort Belvoir, VA.

This is a senior systems-integration role for a technically versatile professional who can bring together sensors, command-and-control systems, networks, data feeds, cyber capabilities, and defeat systems to deliver cohesive, operational C-sUAS capabilities.

The successful candidate will work closely with government capability managers, military operators, engineers, acquisition stakeholders, original equipment manufacturers, software developers, and system vendors. The role focuses on identifying integration gaps, solving complex technical challenges, supporting operational evaluations, and moving individual technologies from standalone components to effective systems of systems.

Serve as a senior technical advisor to government C-sUAS capability managers.

• Integrate sensors, command-and-control systems, networks, data services, effectors, and supporting software.
• Analyze and troubleshoot data flows, component connectivity, protocols, timing, configurations, and interoperability issues.
• Coordinate technical activities across government organizations, OEMs, software developers, and system vendors.
• Develop system architectures, data-flow diagrams, interface-control documentation, configuration baselines, and integration records.
• Support network connectivity, data exchange, cybersecurity, access, and system-hardening activities within the authorized scope.
• Plan and support laboratory, field, and operational test events.
• Develop test objectives, scenarios, measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, test cards, and pass/fail criteria.
• Support system setup, test execution, troubleshooting, data collection, and daily operational reporting.
• Develop leadership briefings, executive summaries, technical recommendations, courses of action, and decision-support materials.
• Support acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and configuration-management decisions.
• Maintain integration backlogs, technical action trackers, capability-gap registers, risk registers, and configuration records.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in systems integration, military operations, engineering, communications, C-UXS, electronic warfare, robotics, autonomous systems, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience integrating multiple hardware and software components into an operational system.
• Experience troubleshooting system interfaces, data flows, networks, APIs, protocols, or component-connectivity issues.
• Experience planning or supporting laboratory, field, or operational test events.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% to support integration, testing, fielding, exercises, and operational events.

Integration of sensors and effectors with command-and-control platforms.

• Tactical networks, tactical data links, TAK environments, military communications systems, and edge-computing architectures.
• REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, message brokers, data schemas, and system-to-system interfaces.
• Development of systems-engineering artifacts, including requirements traceability matrices, interface-control documents, system architectures, test plans, and configuration baselines.
• Rapid acquisition, prototyping, experimentation, operational assessments, or urgent capability fielding.
• Cybersecurity, system hardening, identity management, and data-protection requirements in government environments.
• Military experience in air defense, aviation, fires, communications, intelligence, electronic warfare, special operations, maritime operations, or unmanned systems.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or a related discipline. At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy.