INDOPACOM Solutions Architect at KBR

Title: INDOPACOM Solutions Architect

The successfully selected candidate for this DOD Test/Experimentation INDOPACOM Solutions Architect position will be a full-time employee of the KBR team supporting our DOD Test Resource Management Center’s (TRMC) contract. TRMC is working with INDOPACOM to gather needs and requirements to build out T&E solutions. Duties will include the following:

• Assist in eliciting and capturing INDOPACOM requirements;
• Work closely with TRMC T&E system engineers to define potential solutions over time against these requirements;
• Document experimentation mission threads/scenarios and define/create needed system engineering documentation;
• Work directly with the operational community, helping TRMC define the required infrastructure for distributed test training and experimentation events;
• Become familiar with and work collaboratively across the TRMC Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) User Support Teams to define, develop, test and support T&E solutions to meet specific events requirements;
• Lead and mentor a cross-organizational team working together to identify barriers and complete required technical work;
• Work with TRMC program management and senior leadership to help estimate and plan resources to implement plan across TRMC and Service T&E budgets;
• Advocate and defend investment plan with Services/Agencies to ensure successful execution;
• Communicate TRMC vision for the future of distributed T&E in DoD Strategic Plan for T&E Resources and appropriate DoD T&E community forums;
• Become established as a functional authority on Operational requirements in the T&E community.

Must meet the following requirements:

• United States Citizenship
• Active and readily transferable Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (technical discipline preferred)
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience to include the following: a) Systems Engineering; b) Military Operations and Experimentation; c) Participation in Large Distributed Test, Training or Experimentation Events
• Experience working with the definition and/or development of digital environments to support the T&E needs for US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)

*Experience may be substituted in lieu of degree

Preferred Education, Experience and Knowledge:

• Education: Technical Master’s Degree
• Experience at the OSD or DOD Service-level in one or more of the following:
  • Digital Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
  • Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Environments
  • Test Analysis and Test Planning in Distributed Exercises/Events
  • Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), Secret Defense Research and Engineering Network (SDREN) and Defense Information Systems Network (DISN).
• Intimate knowledge of one or more of the following:
  • DoD Programs and Acquisition process
  • Middleware protocols – High-Level Architecture (HLA), Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and Training & Training Enabling Architecture (TENA)
  • TRMC, TRMC’s Central T&E Investment Program (CTEIP) and TRMC’s Science & Technology (S&T) Programs
  • TRMC’s Cloud Hybrid Edge-to-Enterprise Evaluation & Test Analysis Suite (CHEETAS).
• Experience working with the definition and/or development of digital environments to support the T&E needs for one or more of the following TRMC Partners:
  • US European Command (EUCOM)
  • DOD’s Joint All Domain Command and Control’s (JADC2) Joint Development Environment (JDE)
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense’s (OSD) Mission Engineering/Mission Integration organization
  • Chief Engineer of the US Navy

Basic Compensation:

$170,000-213,000

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.