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Mission Support Specialist

VOR Technology
Fort Meade, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 8/5/2025 CLOSED ON 9/4/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mission Support Specialist position at VOR Technology?

Company Description

VOR Technology is a privately held, veteran owned small business that provides Cyber Intelligence Solutions to government, private industry and critical infrastructure. Our areas of expertise include Computer Network Defense (CND), Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) and Cyber Forensics. We aim to use our technical skill set in Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) to support global Cyber operations and mission training.

Job Description

VOR technology is seeking a Mission Support Specialist with VMware experience.  The candidate will work as a member of a team responsible for the operations and maintenance of a customer processing system.

Qualifications

*All Candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph

  • At least 5 years' of systems engineering experience with a strong Linux background
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting GOTS and COTS back-end processors.
  • Experience producing signal and dataflow documentation.
  • Strong scripting and debugging/troubleshooting skills (Bash, shell, Java script, etc...)
  • Five (5) years' collective hands-on experience with SIGINT system and subsystem level tasking, configuration, normalization, survey, equipment configuration, basic signal analysis, interpretation of system health indications and parameters and routing processes.


Minimum of 5 years' configuring and tasking experience in at least two (2) of the specializations listed below:

1. Signal Analysis: Experience with digital/optical telecommunications systems to include Bell, CEPT, or SDH/PDH digital communications signals and the payload data within these signal structures. Analysis experience with randomization, forward error correction and performing bit-level analysis of computer communications protocols.
2. Modern Tele-communications System and Networks: Optical Transport Network (OTN) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Optical Networks (SONET), SDH and PDH, LAN/WAN Networks, IP Networks, and ATM switches.
3. Telephony Switching System: Experience with normalization and mapping. Able to generate component/system specifications and identify solutions.
4. Communications Systems: Knowledge of internet communications. Experience with metadata, protocols, addressing, and routing of internet and computer systems.
5. Cellular/Personal Communications Systems: experience studying, designing, developing, exploiting, and/or testing components or systems that modulate or demodulate mobile cellular/personal communications systems. Experience with standards associated with 2G/3G/4G systems. Experience with the cellular communication processes including frequency reuse, cell splitting, self-location, paging, call initiation, hand-off, and roaming.


Minimum of 4 years’ experience configuring and tasking the collection and processing systems in at least four (4) of the specialization categories listed below:

I. Switching and Survey: SWITCH CONTROL, CIENA CoreDirector/5430, M557, GLIMMERGLASS, LL209, LIGHTREGEN, ACS, LIGHTRAID, Avvio, or equivalent

II. Circuit Processing: CIRCUIT RAPTOR, LOPERS, JUGGERNAUT, UNITY, DSD, or equivalent.

III. Packet Processing: PACKET RAPTOR,TURMOIL, TUMULT, WEALTHYCLUSTER, TRIREME, XKEYSCORE, TELLURIAN, or equivalent

IV. Distribution: MAILORDER, DSD, ISLANDTRANSPORT, NIAGARAFILES, Network Pump, QUICKPOINT, or equivalent

V. Filtering & Selection: XKEYSCORE, COURIERSKILL, KEYCARD, BLACKNIGHT, CADENCE, UTT/SSDM, or equivalent

VI. Monitoring: COMMONVIEW, TUMMS, or equivalent VII. Analytic Tools: ONEROOF, UIS, or equivalent 


Minimum of 4 years ‘experience using the databases/tools listed in at least three (3) of the specialization categories listed below:

I. Circuit: NUCLEON, NORMALRUN/CHEWSTICK/FALLENORACLE, FASCIA/BANYAN/ASSOCIATION/NITESURF, MAINWAY, TUSKATTIRE, MDR-2, GNAT

II. Packet: XKEYSCORE, MARINA,TUNINGFORK, BLACKPEARL, SPLITGLASS, JOLLYROGER, PINWALE/AGILITY, DATAEXPLORER, MDR-2

III. Environmental Knowledge: TWISTEDPATH, YELLOWSTONE, CINEPLEX, GLOBALREACH, TUNINGFORK, TREASUREMAP, MDR-2, REFLECTIONPOOL

IV. Signals Characterization: TRAILMAPPER, TAROTCARD, WIRESHARK, PACKETSWING, Xbit, DVT, WVT, BSAW, SAT, ATMProc, SDH Demux, CREEK

V. Target Analysis/Reporting: UTT/OCTAVE, CPE, SCORPIOFORE, PINWALE/AGILITY, PLUS/ANCHORY/MAUI, YELLOWSTONE/SPLITGLASS, Global Reach, Target Modeling Tool, USR, TKB, GRAPEVINE, DATAEXPLORER, MDR-1, MDR-2, TUNINGFORK, and designated AMOD tools

Additional Information

Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree (Computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business or related field)

Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope clearance
* US citizenship is required.


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