Cyber Range Event Designer

Description

• 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
• Performing independent analysis, evaluation, and integration solutions to complex technical problems to meet management and mission objectives
• 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 analysis on projects or phases of projects to enhance the technical and economic development of the product
• Resolving a variety of technical problems leading to advanced engineering studies designed to increase efficiency or reduce costs
• Assisting with briefing senior management and customer personnel on technical matters, technical research studies, and applications and in developing technical presentations
• Configuring both internal systems and customer tools within mixed environments
• Monitoring system performance and system resource utilization, ensure system availability and reliability, and chart trending and capacity planning
• 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

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in computer science, or a focus in computer and information sciences, engineering, mathematics, management information systems, or a related discipline with corresponding experience and demonstrated mastery of relevant computer science topics
• 8+ years of experience with software and systems development, DoD CNO/CND/CNE platforms, cyber T&E, or cyber exercise planning and execution
• Intermediate knowledge of: software development; programming languages; operating systems; network design; tactical and strategic networks; enterprise and consumer IT concepts, architectures, virtualization technologies, and systems (compute, network, storage)
• Intermediate familiarity with defensive and offensive cyber tools and TTP
• Skilled at inferring requirements or desirable attributes for environments or test/training strategies
• Demonstrated ability to effectively synthesize data from multiple sources to make prioritization and resource allocation decisions
• Superior oral communication skills in the following core areas: formal presentations; soliciting goals and requirements from range users; explaining cyber security and testing/training concepts; effectively communicating event and environment requirements to team members; explaining cost/benefit tradeoffs; managing expectations; and explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to both work independently and to collaborate with range users and other event stakeholders
• Technical writing skills, including the ability to author event design documents and create persuasive and impactful technical briefing materials

Desired Skills

• National Security Agency (NSA) Red Team experience is a plus
• Master’s degree with a focus in computer science
• 10+ years of experience with CNO/CND/CNE platforms
• 10+ years of experience with cyber testing or training (depending on focus), including planning, coordinating, execution, and analysis, with at least 5 years of experience in each domain
• Knowledge of existing and emerging CNO/CND/CNE technologies
• Expert knowledge of at least 5 of: software development; programming languages; operating systems; networks; enterprise and consumer IT concepts, architectures, and systems (compute, network, storage)
• Expert knowledge of defensive and offensive cyber tools and TTP
• Experience planning or conducting DoD DCO or OCO
• Experience working with platform development, training, and/or testing organizations, end-users (operators), and system developers (contractors)
• Familiarity with relevant DoD testing and/or training policy directives
• Extensive experience participating in or conducting cyber table top exercises
• Familiarity with cyber