Technical Lead

Location: Columbia, MD
Type: Hybrid
Travel: < 10%

About Us:
Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Corporation company, is a trusted partner in providing powerful edge computing hardware and defensive cybersecurity solutions to protect the Federal Government and private enterprises. Our goal is to support the federal government, our allies, mission partners, and private industries in accomplishing their cybersecurity and defense objectives efficiently and securely through cutting-edge hardware, engineering, and integration services.

Position Overview:
Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company, is looking to hire a qualified Senior Systems Engineer who enjoys working with the end customer to ensure mission success. In this role, you will serve as the Technical Lead, responsible for all technical aspects of a $13.4M contract supporting critical Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) with global impact and leading a high performing team of industry-leading engineers performing software integration, operations, cybersecurity engineering, and providing thought leadership to shape the future. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background across a wide range of technology in hands-on roles, experience managing teams in a DoD contracting setting. This is an exclusive opportunity to engineer solutions for unique challenges in mostly unclassified spaces in support of our warfighters.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and personally perform cybersecurity related engineering tasks as appropriate, including hands-on development.
• Plan and allocate resources, estimate staffing needs, coordinate activities, and engage with key stakeholders to ensure project success.
• Conduct research and evaluate technical analysis with specific emphasis on network and cyber operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) focused on the threat to networked space and cyberspace platforms and U.S. DoD information networks.
• Collaborate and coordinate with relevant stakeholders throughout the company to ensure technology controls and standards are well understood and consistently applied.
• Lead our technical team who reside in several places around the country with a large concentration in Columbia, MD.
• Partner with internal teams to deliver technical demonstrations and showcase SealingTech capabilities to customers.
• Identify high-level functional and technical requirements based on interactions with the user community and knowledge of the existing DoD enterprise architecture.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8-15 years of hands-on experience in systems engineering:
• Systems architecture (Windows, Linux, ESXi)
  
• Network security architecture
  
• Software development
  
• Networking
  
• Virtualization
  
• DCO within any Service Cyber Command elements or other Government organizations
  
• Domain Knowledge:
  
  • At least 5 years of experience with current defensive cyberspace TTPs
    
  • Knowledge and background with key cybersecurity concepts, technologies, and methodologies
    
  • Knowledge and experience with network protocols, virtualization, architecture design, and defense in depth practices
    
  • Possess basic theory and operational concepts for infrastructure security and hardening processes, techniques, and best practices
    
  • Experience using automation tools (Ansible, Python, Scripting, etc.)
    
  • Well-versed in virtualization technologies, virtualization management (vCenter, Kubernetes, etc.) and virtual machine and container deployment and configuration
    
  • Understanding of the function and operation of Defensive Cyber tools, including Splunk, Elastic, Zeek, Palo Alto, RedSeal, VMware, and others
    
• Leadership & Technical Management:
  
  • Experience with Agile project management using tools such as Jira.
    
  • Knowledge of best practices in the realm of security patching, authentication, and log retention.
    
  • Experience working within a security framework for compliance and auditing.
    
  • Proven experience managing teams of at least 5 personnel.
    
  • Proven experience managing technical solutions to federal government (preferably DoD) of a value of at least $25M
    
• General Requirements:
  
  • Proven experience collecting requirements from the customer and producing a working solution.
    
  • Proven ex