Istar C2 Systems Specialist

**Company Description**
ADGA Group is a proudly Canadian-owned and operated defence and security technology company. Our core services include value-added program management, agile software engineering development, and integrated security solutions. As an industry partner to the Canadian Government and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for decades, ADGA is actively supporting ongoing and emerging requirements for operational readiness, reconstitution, and modernization.

For decades, we have recruited veterans to integrate their unique skillsets and highly specialized training into our workforce and work culture. At ADGA, we are united by our social purpose to create meaningful employment opportunities for veterans of the CAF and RCMP, their families, and fellow citizens who share a passion to contribute to the security and well-being of Canadians.

ADGA’s social purpose empowers us to reinvest in our employees as well as to donate generously to veteran and military family causes in our community.

Join our team at ADGA, where we prioritize your success by fostering internal movement and growth in a safe, inclusive, and agile work environment. We offer a wide variety of career and developmental opportunities, including the option to work on different projects and technologies, on-the-job training, cross-training, access to business and technical online courses, and formal education subsidies.

In this role, you will be part of the ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) Command and Control team and will provide System Specialist support to ISTAR Command and Control (C2) activities.
- Coordinate with ISTAR C2 stakeholders to assist platform LCMM (Life Cycle Material Management) personnel, resolve integration & training issues.
- Maintain and create ISTAR C2 documentation and files.
- Coordinate with other DND & government departments entities in support of ISTAR C2 activities.
- Track technical problems and solutions in using the Directorates collaborative environments to support configuration control and change management activities.
- Provide system specialist user audits and feedback.
- Conduct engineering and support LCMM management of ISTAR C2 equipment.
- Developing, designing and maintaining test beds, and test procedures; and
- Usability and Human Computer Interaction:

- Improve and enhance systems to satisfy users’ needs.
- Enhance usability, which is the measure of the quality of a user’s experience when interacting with a product or system by maximizing effectiveness (achieve goals with product), efficiency (time/effort required to complete tasks) and user satisfaction.
- Identify and create software user interface requirements and analysis of implementation; and
- Document the analysis, design, and test activities in accordance with development standards.

**Qualifications**
- Work on-site full time, 5 days per week.
- Must have a valid Secret level security clearance.
- Proof of STEM Diploma and experience in networking, software, computer, systems, electrical, or a suitable engineering or technical field required to support Land C4ISR.
- Experience working in an AGILE environment.
- Working knowledge of the following programming languages: Python C & Java.
- Knowledge of MIL standards (understanding Army structure)
- 6 years’ of demonstrated experience within the last 8 years in the preparation of technical concept documents, system specifications, and technical proposals in the field of Information Technology / Information management or engineering.
- 6 years’ experience within the last 8 years in system engineering in a minimum of 4 of this assessment area’s criteria:

- Demonstrated work experience in planning, configuring, employing and managing command and control communication and information systems in a distributed platform environment or within a client/server environment, or ISTAR systems.
- Demonstrated work experience in identifying, analyzing and resolving complex communication and information system and/or ISTAR system problems.
- Demonstrated work experience in analyzing, designing and/or implementing solutions for communication and information systems or ISTAR systems.
- Demonstrated work experience in developing and documenting system management solutions (tools and processes) for command-and-control communication and information systems in mobile platforms or within a client/server environment, or ISTAR systems.
- Demonstrated work experience in system integration, verification and validation, for hardware and software components (COTS and/or custom developed) in new or existing systems.
- Demonstrated work experience in life-cycle management of tactical communication and information systems, or ISTAR systems.
- 6 years of experience in each of at least 4 of this assessment area’s criteria:

- Communicating information technology frameworks/strategies to management and technical staff.
- Communicating system engineering direction for