Operations Lead (Acquisition Based)

Position Summary

MAG Aerospace is seeking an experienced Operations Lead with Acquisition background that will support Product Manager Information Warfare Cyber Development (PdM IWCD) with the coordination, management, monitoring, guidance, and execution of systems engineering and IT Service management processes for a complex software-intensive medium sized computer enterprise supporting a unique mission.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-growing team with multiple opportunities for upward advancement supporting C&S. The C&S program delivers critical capabilities to counter current and future threats, enabling the next generation of warfighting capabilities from sensor to Soldier worldwide. By applying game changing cyber technologies through agile development methodology, we enable battlefield dominance for our Warfighters.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify and articulate requirements in concise and testable terms for implementation by an integration contractor.
• Participates in the development and implementation of system engineering strategies.
• Identifies and implements policies and procedures that balance the needs of enterprise users (customer mission requirements) with administrative restrictions imposed by RMF, FAR, and other DoD regulatory processes.
• Monitors the implementation of government approved policies and procedures for both compliance and efficiency.
• Coordinates the actions of supporting government agencies and their internal processes.
• Reviews and assesses integration contractor deliverables to ensure compliance with government-provided regulations and standards.
• Participates in government oversight of contractor engineering activities, to include as a supporting team member in program protection, IT Service Management, and Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA) and enterprise DoD network governance.
• Manages and monitors all aspects of the installation planning, RMF accreditation, expansion, and/or removal of nodes to a medium sized multiple classification enterprise network.
• Generates recommendations to the government regarding system engineering, planning, requirements prioritization, design, and system integration.
• Provides integrated, multi-disciplinary solution recommendations for resolution of technical problems.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

 

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of systems engineering practices and processes to support the design, development, integration, test, and deployment of C5ISR or software-intensive systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scaled Agile Framework, DevSecOps, or Scrum.
• Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira and Confluence).
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders on requirements identification, definition, and translating requirements to vendor teams for design and implementation.
• Experience reviewing and providing meaningful inputs to technical documentation (e.g., requirements documentation, architecture designs, engineering plans, installation guides, test plans/reports, etc.,)
• Demonstrated experience with the planning, execution, and management of system operation activities throughout a system’s lifecycle.
• Excellent communications skills including the ability to generate focused technical documentation on complex topics.
• Comfortable with briefing senior level government/military leaders
• Must be able to work in a team environment and execute tasks on-quality and on-time.
• Familiarity and understanding of virtualized environments (VMs, VMWare).
• Familiarity with CI/CD best practices and tools (e.g., Git, Gitlab, Nexus, Jenkins).
• Excellent communications skills including the ability to generate and deliver focused briefings on complex topics to senior leaders.
• Ability to make recommendations for business process improvements with an understanding of technical problems and solutions as they relate to the technology needs.
• Familiarity with the RMF process and security assessment technologies (e.g., Fortify, SonarQube, ACAS).

 

Clearance

• Active TS/SCI Clearance

 

Experience

• 10 years of experience in computer/communication network deployment planning.
• 8 years of experience in successful project management and team leadership, PMP preferred.
• 8 years of experience with DoD 5000 acquisition lifecycle processes.

 

Education

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology
• Four years of direct