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# OPIR Systems Engineer

- **Company:** BOOZ, ALLEN & HAMILTON, INC.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Signals Intelligence, Linux, Geospatial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Platform System, Devsecops, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gjvoil

## About the Role

+ 10+ years of experience with mission processing sof t war e

 + 2+ years of experience with national security satellite systems for SIGINT or GEOINT

 + Experience with large DoD or IC satellite ground systems, including OPIR

 + Experience with mission systems and interfacing with mission management planners and operators on a technical level

 + Experience managing a team of developers

 + Knowledge of mission needs and conveying capabilities of sof t war e platforms

 + Top Secret clearance

 + HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

 + Experience with satellite mission management systems

 + Experience developing solutions in classified Cloud environments in the Intelligence Community or DoD

 + Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering ( MBSE )

 + Experience with Linux and Cloud technologies

 + Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps sof t war e development

 + Knowledge of automation techniques or artifi cia l intelligence and machine learning

 + Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information ; Top Secret clearance is required.

## Description

At a certain point, experience -based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you've developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you're a solutions architect. You've evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of sof t war e development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge , skill, and experience to take on the toughest challenges in Satellite Mission Management?

As an OPIR Systems Engineer on our team, you'll translate your customer's IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting and managing emerging satellite architectures for national security space programsWith your guidance, we'll help transform the way national space programs use technology, including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. And, what do you do next in a career where you've reached this level? You mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow's solutions architects.

Work with us and build the future of technology in national security space programs for the better.


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