Cyber Range Event Lead
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Job description
- Working with Event Designers and End Users to create technical tasking for proposed cyber events. Details the technologies and tools needed to accomplish those goals
- Managing risk and requirements alongside Lead Engineers to ensure that difficult tasks are surfaced to program leadership
- Splitting complex instantiations into manageable pieces and tracking tasks alongside a team of engineers under your supervision
- Supporting medium to large system deployments, including planning, designing, and evaluating software options, selecting operating systems and protocol suites, configuring media, and deriving requirements
- Designing, implementing, and troubleshooting elements of system networking, including routing and switching, and supporting special communicate methods such as VPN
- Seeking optimum design within customer specifications, quality standards, schedule, & funding limitations
- Working with site users to deploy and integrate their solutions. Offering assistance to participants during initial integration stages or when integration fails. Assisting in documenting changes
- Assisting with briefing senior management and customer personnel on technical matters, technical research studies, and applications and in developing technical presentations
- Working within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to system infrastructure
- Assisting in selecting and implementing security tools, policies, and procedures
- Liaising with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution in fielded environments
- Working inside classified and unclassified environments to accomplish government goals
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or related technical field and eight (8) or more years work-related experience or a Master's degree and work-related experience in a relevant technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Ability to obtain and hold a security clearance
- Ability to apply comprehensive technical knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments
- Ability to work and collaborate effectively with others as well as experience working independently
- Possess a high level of proficiency of systems administration and/or information technology concepts
- Strong communication, team building, craft, and vocational skills to include writing acumen for manuals, technical reports, and procedures.
- Experience leading small teams (3-10 engineers), delegating tasking, and tracking progress
- Experience deriving technical tasks from mission requirements
Desired Skills
- Experience working in a cyber range environment as an operator or administrator
- Experience configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN)
- Experience building and deploying software (from internal and external parties), troubleshooting vendor solutions with outside assistance
- Extensive experience leading small teams (3-10 engineers), delegating tasking, and tracking progress.
- Experience deriving technical tasks from mission requirements in cyber events and customer operations
- Experience with VMware virtualization tools, to include vSphere, and their interoperability with networks
- Experience performing system maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations (e.g., STIGs)
- Experience with logical isolation of virtual enclaves to support isolated test environments
- Experience with configuring/administering NetApp storage networks
- Experience with various DoD-standard endpoint toolsets for OCO and DDCO efforts (e.g., Kali Linux, VyOS, Security Onion, pfSense)
- Military experience or experience as a DoD contractor a plus
- CCNA or similar networking certificate
- VMware Certified Professional desired
- Microsoft Certified Solutions or similar Windows systems certificate
Clearance Information
SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AS WELL AS, A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL WITH TOP SECRET / SCI ELIGIBILITY
Travel Requirements
- Only as needed and very minimal.
Benefits & conditions
SRC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with a company match, life insurance, vacation and sick paid time off accruals starting at 10 days of vacation and 5 days of sick leave annually, 11 paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance, selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.