• Senior Solutions Architect

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Colorado Springs, CO)


    Job Descriptions:

    Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. Join a world class team of solution architects designing complex systems to meet mission needs and solve demanding problems. This position will focus on the solution design and technical proposal development for enterprise ground systems related to satellites and in orbit assets. Primary job duties will be to support business development and capture activities including shaping campaigns, supporting industry & partner engagements, interfacing with potential customers to understand technical requirements, determining available solutions, and providing technical leadership as a solutions architecture.

    Required Experience:

    + Explain how satellite operations and distributed ground system work (be able to draw functions w/ work-flow)

    + Understand data, control, and status interfaces between C2 elements

    + Review customer requirements and identify gaps vs. current in-house products/capabilities

    + Real-time, ground-based command & control (C2) of LEO, MEO, GEO, HEO satellites

    + Experience with C2 of small and large constellations of commercial and federal satellites

    + Experience with cloud-based C2 (CBC2) using micro-service applications

    + Cloud computing, data analytics, network communication, and hybrid cloud architectures

    + Decompose applications into microservices

    + Determine effort to modify applications for cloud deployment)

    + Experience with DevSecOps

    + Compute network and storage requirements for cloud deployments

    + Knowledge of TT&C and flight dynamics

    + Power Point, Visio, Word, Excel, architectural diagraming

    + Excellent written and verbal communication skills

    Preferred Skills and Experience

    + Experience estimating engineering effort required to fill gaps based on technical gap analysis

    + Understanding of business development, capture management, & development/delivery functions

    + Experience with digital engineering such as Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)

    + Experience with agile software development process

    + Satellite mission planning and scheduling

    #LI-Hybrid

    The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

    Competitive salary based on experience and education Salary Range: $150,000-$200,000

    Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.

     

    This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

     

    Keyword: Cloud, Satellite Communications, Systems Engineering, Enterprise Software Development, Systems Integration

     

    Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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    From: Kratos Defense