The Technical Lead will provide hands-on expertise in DoW network systems on a team supporting large DoW programs that operate and maintain multiple IL 4/5 cloud environments and DoW networks, and that take advantage of the many benefits offered by commercial cloud hosting and on-premise infrastructure (e.g., the ability to accelerate IT delivery, efficiency, and innovation). The Technical Lead will support client teams developing and/or enriching applications in a hybrid cloud environment, as well as providing maintenance and support in both classified and unclassified environments with the goal of providing stable, secure, flexible, efficient, and cost-effective frameworks. The Technical Lead will report directly to the Division Technical Lead, and will routinely engage with customers, engineers, and supporting mission partners.
Responsibilities include:
- Architect, configure, and manage secure environments within a DoD network.
- Monitor and manage security compliance, remediations, and patch management for an unclassified environment.
- Lead a team of multidisciplinary engineers.
- Install, test, maintain, and upgrade network operating systems software and hardware to comply with DoD requirements.
- Implement and maintain security and user access controls (ICAM, Security Groups, Firewalls, Proxies).
- Lead and architect risk mitigation activities such as Assessment and Authorization, continuous monitoring, and vulnerability and configuration management.
- Evaluate customer issues and make educated decisions on technologies, tools, and the overall delivery strategy.
- Thrive in a hybrid environment (split between on-site and remote, with occasional SCIF visits).
- Successfully communicate to customers, contract program managers, industry partners, ECS senior management, and Government representatives.
- Provide leadership and creativity in new business capture and proposal development.
- Track industry trends and leverage them to drive innovation and solution excellence across various functional domains.
- Collaborate with operations, technical, and business development managers, and ECS Centers of Excellence on key components of large solutions.
- Other duties, as assigned.
Note: Salary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.
Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000
General Description of Benefits
- U.S. Citizen.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science; Information Systems Management; or similar Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) discipline.
- Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information indoctrination (TS/SCI).
- Active DOD 8140 IAT Level II or higher (e.g., Security+) or obtain with 30 days of hire.
- Highly technical, with a deeply analytical possessing mind-set and experience leading and delegating tasks across technical teams.
- 6+ years of IT platform fundamentals experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in a progression of roles to include delivering and sustaining technical and cloud solutions, and managing a supporting team.
- 5+ years of experience with customer-facing cloud projects (AWS preferred).
- Experience in:
- The administration of Linux and Microsoft OS Servers (Patch, STIG, configure, and troubleshoot).
- DevOps, Gitlab, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, and Automation.
- Container orchestration with Kubernetes and docker / AKS, EKS, ECS/ECR.
- Enforcing cloud security practices including configuring encryption, implementing VPC endpoint policies, bucket policies, and locking down security groups.
- Implementing and troubleshooting PKI-enabled system integration.
- Data engineering fundamentals including ETL, wrangling, database requirements (structured/unstructured), normalization, and storage.
- Developing and maintaining systems architecture and configuration documentation.
- Demonstrated experience with scripting capabilities using PowerShell, CMD, Bash, Python, etc.
- Familiarity in building and deploying infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or industry automation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience implementing AWS components such as Lambda, IAM, Load Balancers, RDS, Cloudformation, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Sagemaker.
- Demonstrated, hands-on technical experience in Network and Transport protocols, tools, and techniques.
- Current hands-on implementation experience migrating on-premises applications to AWS.
- Demonstrated customer focus and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.
- Fundamental understanding of AI/ML operations and development-to-field lifecycle.
- Ability to travel CONUS and OCONUS (passport required) for occasional program/customer support.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
- Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).
