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# Mission Planning System Administrator (Level 3)

- **Company:** Lockheed Martin
- **Location:** Patuxent River, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $85,500.0 - $150,765.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Antivirus Softwares, CompTIA Security+, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, Networking Hardware, Oracle (Applications), SAP Project Management, Virtual Machines, Network Server, User Accounts, Vmware
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9009530/mission-planning-system-administrator-level-3

## About the Role

* Demonstrated Mission Planning experience

 * Experience handling COMSEC information

 * Ability to obtain and retain DoD IAT Level II certification (Security+, CySA+, or CCNA) within 60 days of hire

 * Willingness and ability to work extended hours, odd/off-shifts and weekends as needed

 * Ability to attain and maintain both Secret collateral and SAP program clearances

Desired Skills:

 * F-35 Mission Planning Environment (MPE) experience with JMPS

 * F-35 Multi-Ship Virtual Development Lab (MVDL) experience

 * Experience Troubleshooting Applications

 * Account Maintenance with Active Directory/Oracle/CRM

 * Disaster recovery: backups and restores of physical servers, virtual machines, databases and network equipment

 * Virtual Machine Management Service (Hyper-V / VMware)

 * Maintaining/upgrading system hardware and startup/shutdown of rack components

 * Applying updates, anti-virus/anti-spyware updates, and patch updates

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years

## Description

The F-35 Mission Planning Test & Evaluation Administrator's primary role will be to support flight test activities at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station on the F-35B and F-35C aircraft as part of the Air Vehicle Mission Planning Environment (MPE) team. This team is responsible for the F-35 mission planning systems and processes to include, but not limited to:

 - Deploying mission plans for communications/datalinks, sensor configurations and weapon system planning

 - Coordinating with Mission Systems and Weapon Integration teams and pilots to deploy and evaluate new capabilities

 - Responsible for both ground and airborne COMSEC configurations

 - Coordinating with Test Operations, Flight Operations, and Aircraft Maintenance teams

 - MPE hardware and network deployment and administration

 - MPE software installation of the latest developmental releases, maintaining user accounts, and supporting system audits

 - Supporting MPE and other MS related support equipment related maintenance and troubleshooting efforts

This position will require maintaining a DoD IAT Level II certification (i.e. CompTIA Security+).


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