HII Mission Technologies is supporting Navy Surface Warfare Center Corona (NSWC Corona) to deliver Navy Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training through the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) and Navy Training Baseline (NTB). In this onsite role in Virginia Beach, you will provide technical leadership and engineering support for LVC events, including real-time NTB operations and interoperability-focused troubleshooting during training delivery.
Role overview
The Technical Support Specialist (Systems Engineer 3) position supports NCTE Mission Engineering Division (MED) efforts within HII’s Global Security group. You will serve as an engineering technical lead for Fleet Synthetic Training (FST), LVC, and COCOM level training events, and you will also support the installation, configuration, and sustainment of NTB software releases, upgrades, and patches.
Key responsibilities
- Act as Engineering Technical Lead for NCTE Fleet Synthetic Training (FST), LVC, and COCOM level events, partnering with operational and engineering leads to define, align, and execute technical requirements.
- Support the NTE Engineering Sustainment Team by installing and configuring new NTB software releases, upgrades, and patches.
- Provide engineering support for NTB setup and configuration during planning and execution of training events.
- Evaluate and resolve moderately complex software-related problems.
- Collaborate across disciplines to develop manning and resourcing plans for NCTE training event execution.
- Perform pre-event interoperability risk assessment and mitigation by identifying integrated training system capabilities and limitations across virtual simulators, live ships, and other LVC participants to meet training requirements.
- Architect scalable systems for event-specific requirements, creating and maintaining formal architecture artifacts such as DoDAF SV-1 and DoDAF SV-2 using Microsoft Visio.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation for architecture, configuration, and status.
- Direct real-time technical operations during LVC event execution, monitoring end-to-end system health of NTB products to support uninterrupted training delivery.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues in LVC environments, with emphasis on NTB interoperability, simulation protocols (HLA/DIS), and interface standards.
- Deliver rapid, real-time technical support during LVC exercises to reduce protocol misconfigurations and minimize impact to training fidelity.
Required qualifications
- 5 years relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree in a related field, or 3 years relevant experience with a master’s degree in a related field. Alternative experience rules also apply (including High School Diploma or equivalent with 9 years relevant experience, and 0 years experience with PhD/Juris Doctorate).
- Thorough understanding of Linux and Windows, including advanced usage such as command line interface, scripting, network interface configuration, device configuration, domain management, and file sharing/mapping.
- Technical leadership ability.
- Ability to determine the correct engineering domain for technical issues and assign engineers accordingly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across multiple organizational levels.
- Familiarity with MS Office.
- CompTIA Security+ certification is required.
- Must currently hold and be able to maintain a US Secret clearance.
Tools and technologies you may work with
- Linux, Windows, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office
- DoDAF SV-1, DoDAF SV-2
- HLA, DIS, HLA/DIS
- CompTIA Security+, JSAF, NGTS, JTLS-GO
- Wireshark, tcpdump, VMware vSphere
- RTI FederateList/Houston, JBUS
- TCP/IP, UDP, Link 16, GCCS
Location and logistics
This position is located at NAS Oceana Dam Neck Annex in Virginia Beach, Virginia and requires periodic local travel to customer sites in Virginia Beach and Norfolk. The work environment includes office, industrial, or shipboard settings, with physical requirements that may include climbing ladders, tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances, and lifting or moving materials.
Compensation and benefits
- Salary: USD 90,872 to 103,900 per year
- Competitive benefits including best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices
- Wellness resources, employee assistance programs
- Savings Plan Options (401(k)), financial planning tools
- Life insurance, employee discounts
- Paid holidays and paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement, early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships
- Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation occasionally offered for qualified positions
