Event Lead

Description

• Coordinating with the user(s) to manage objectives and the event's scope
• Performing as a member of the Event Engineering Team (EET) and responsible for defining event objectives and translating user requirements into tasks for the event team to execute
• 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
• Monitor 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 9 years of related experience; or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree
• Active Secret Security Clearance
• Experience with Computer Network Operations (CNO), Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Networks Exploitation (CNE) platforms
• Experience with cyber testing or training (depending on focus), including planning, coordinating, execution, and analysis
• Intermediate knowledge of: software development; programming languages; operating systems; networks; enterprise and consumer IT concepts, architectures, and systems (compute, network, storage)
• Possess a high level of proficiency of systems administration and/or information technology concepts
• 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
• Experience with VMware virtualization tools, to include vSphere, and their interoperability with networks
• Intermediate familiarity with defensive and offensive cyber tools and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (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 (including the ability to project confidence and enthusiasm) 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 cyber concepts to non-cyber-savvy audiences
• Ability to work independently and to collaborate with range users and other event stakeholders
• Superior technical writing skills, including the ability to author event design documents and create persuasive and impactful technical briefing materials

Desired Skills

• Master's degree with a focus in computer science.
• Experience working in a cyber range environment as an operator or administrator
• Experience with CNO/CND/CNE platform