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By Light Professional IT Services · 2 weeks ago

Cyber Range Operations Team Lead

US-MD-Fort Meade

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$170K/yr - $220K/yr

8+ years exp

By Light Professional IT Services LLC is a company that supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers. The Cyber Range Operations Team Lead will provide technical leadership for the development of cyber training software products and oversee cyber range engineer teams to ensure effective operations and integration of new technologies.

GovernmentInformation ServicesInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop and evolve cyber range development and designs in a complex system of virtual environments

Work with Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE) Operations Group (OG) teams to ensure the design of new cyber training capabilities, and enhancements to existing capabilities meet the deployment objectives and adhere to technology and system architectural guidelines

Provide Leadership and direction in determining performance metrics across cyber training ranges

Assist in implementation of complex hardware and software applications across the PCTE training enterprise

Assess the feasibility of integrating new technologies within PCTE systems

Leads cyber range engineer teams in diagnosing complex issues and bugs across cyber training systems

Qualification

Cyber range designSystems engineeringTechnical leadershipIAT Level II certificationPerformance analysisLoad testingApplication securityCommunication skillsTeam leadershipProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as electrical engineering, computer science, information technology, systems or software engineering from an accredited college or university, or 6 years of experience in lieu of degree

Minimum 8 plus years of systems engineering experience demonstrating increasing complex engineering roles and technical responsibility

IAT Level II certification in accordance with DoD Directive 8570

Demonstrated experience and in-depth knowledge of offensive and defensive cyber space operations, to include cyber range design and cyberspace training operations

The candidate should have excellent communication skills and significant experience in providing technical leadership for complex computing systems design and/or software development efforts

Experience developing and/or extending architectural models/views from which detailed systems design and component construction can be accomplished

Developing and performing architecture tradeoff comparisons based on architecture modeling results

Collecting, assimilating, and analyzing performance data that supports the improvement of cyber range operations

Monitoring system-wide performance results, comparing these results with expectations, analyzing performance gaps, identifying areas of concern, and leading performance investigations and optimization efforts as needed across PCTE systems

Experience in hosted application deployment, system load testing and load balancing technologies

U. S. Citizenship status with a TS/SCI with CI polygraph security clearance