Release Train Engineer - Chantilly, United States - Peraton

Description

Responsibilities:

Peraton has a great opportunity for a Release Train Engineer in Chantilly, VA supporting our Intelligence Community (IC) customer. At the heart of national security, we've been embedded into this cutting-edge program for nearly a decade. You will be working in a rewarding, mission focused environment, cutting edge software design, development, and deployment, contributing to the protection and defense of national space assets. Your efforts will fundamentally change what Space Domain Awareness and Mission Protection mean for our Nation.

Skyfire is a Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system. Its purpose is establish a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), find RSOs of interest, and provide data to ground operators. Located in Chantilly, VA, the Skyfire team uses: programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world-class SDA I&W system.

What you'll do:

• Guide, train, and lead teams supporting technical efforts related to software development, maintenance and architectural design, network engineering, system security and training activities.
• Perform PMP type project management tasks.
• Lead PI Planning ceremonies and facilitate support coordination between multiple agile release trains (ART).
• Gather and present ART wide performance metrics at end of sprint and end of PI review sessions with senior management and customer stakeholders.
• Guide the team on how to use Agile/Scrum/Kanban practices and values.
• Guide the team on how to self-organize and plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints. Asses the degree of scrum maturity and coaching the team to higher levels, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Remove impediments and guiding the team to remove impediments.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating a culture of getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assist with internal and external ART (Agile Release Train) communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Support and educate the Agile Project Management Lead, especially on grooming and maintaining the backlog.
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
• Facilitate most effectively as a servant leader.
• Have a solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges of aligning and facilitating an ART.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree with 10+ years of relevant experience. Additional experience will not be considered in lieu of a degree
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification
• Direct experience with large-scale agile (e.g., Disciplined Agile Delivery, LargeScale Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework or Spotify model), familiar with Offensive Cyber Operations
• Five (5) years as a Product Owner or equivalent
• Five (5) years of software development experience
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Top Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- Contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance.

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive improvement through coordination between the Contractors development team, the Government Product Owner and key technical stakeholders.
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills
• In-depth knowledge of customers lifecycles, standards, and supporting processes and practices
• Experience with multiple Agile teams in different organizations

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.