HII Mission Technologies is seeking a Technical Support Specialist (Engineer Systems 3) to support Navy Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training at NSWC Corona within the Global Security group. In this onsite role in Virginia Beach, VA, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering support for Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) and Navy Training Baseline (NTB) activities, including planning, deployment, and real-time event operations.
You will help lead interoperability efforts and sustain NTB capabilities across integrated training systems, with a focus on keeping event delivery stable and aligned to training requirements.
What You’ll Do
- Act as the Engineering Technical Lead supporting NCTE Fleet Synthetic Training (FST), LVC, and COCOM-level training events by collaborating with operational and engineering leads to define and execute technical requirements.
- Support the NTE Engineering Sustainment Team by installing and configuring 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 problems.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary divisions and cross-functional leadership to develop manning and resourcing plans for NCTE training event execution.
- Perform pre-event interoperability risk assessment and mitigation by identifying capabilities and limitations across integrated training systems, virtual simulators, live ships, and other LVC participants.
- Architect scalable systems for event-specific needs and create and maintain formal architecture artifacts such as DoDAF SV-1 and SV-2 using Microsoft Visio.
- Develop and maintain documentation covering technical architecture, configuration, and status.
- Direct real-time technical operations by monitoring end-to-end health of NTB products during LVC execution to maintain uninterrupted training delivery.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues across LVC environments, focusing on NTB Interoperability, HLA/DIS simulation protocols, and interface standards.
- Provide rapid, real-time technical support during LVC exercises to eliminate protocol misconfigurations and minimize impact to training fidelity.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field (or Master’s degree in a related field, depending on experience).
- Experience: 5 years relevant experience with a Bachelor’s; 3 years relevant experience with a Master’s; 0 years with a PhD or Juris Doctorate (not listed for other degree outcomes); or High School Diploma or equivalent with 9 years relevant experience.
- Thorough understanding of Linux and Windows, including advanced use of command line interface, scripting, network interface configuration, device configuration, domain management, and file sharing/mapping.
- Technical leadership capability.
- Ability to identify which engineering domain a problem belongs to and assign engineers from appropriate domains to resolve issues.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable communicating across organizational levels.
- Familiarity with MS Office.
- Current CompTIA Security+ certification is required.
- US Secret clearance: must currently hold and be able to maintain.
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
Benefits
- Competitive benefits with 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 may be offered for qualified positions
Leadership Mindset at HII – Mission Technologies
- Know & Grow Your People
- Build Relationships
- Take Ownership
- Customer First
- Shape the Future
- Act with Urgency
Role Location and Travel
- Site: NAS Oceana Dam Neck Annex, Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Travel: periodic local travel to customer sites in Virginia Beach and Norfolk
Physical Requirements
- Office, industrial, or shipboard environment
- Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances
- Lifting and moving materials may be required
Compensation: USD 90,872 - 103,900 per year.
Bonus Points for Having (preferred): familiarity with core simulation software (JSAF, NGTS, or JTLS-GO); experience using network and distributed modeling & simulation tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, VMware vSphere, RTI FederateList/Houston, and JBUS; knowledge of distributed simulation protocols (HLA/DIS); networking concepts including TCP/IP and UDP; experience using MS Visio for technical architecture drawings; knowledge of Navy C4I tactical systems such as Link 16 and GCCS; experience working with Navy systems and/or commands.
