Sr. Cyber Range Engineer (Team Lead)

Company Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. 

 

Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains.  CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

Position Overview

The Sr. Cyber Range Engineer for the Persistent Cyber Training Environment Operations Group (PCTE-OG) will provide subject matter expertise for cyber range design, implementation, validation, and execution. The candidate will provide deep technical expertise across a broad spectrum of IT and cybersecurity products, tools, architectures, and implementations, with the ability to use that expertise to design and implement cyber ranges. Also, the candidate must support individual training, large scale collective training and operational mission rehearsal requirements for the Cyber Mission Force teams located at Fort Gordon. The candidate will work closely with customer and third-party organizations and must be able to respond to ad-hoc technical requirements while synchronizing priorities across the enterprise. The candidate must thrive in high pressure situations.

 

This position is located onsite at Fort Gordon (Augusta, GA).

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Range Engineer for PCTE-OG, the candidate will provide technical expertise to support the development and execution of large-scale cyber exercises and multi-spectrum cyber operations. The candidate will support the execution of cyber training and mission rehearsal events. 
• Principal advisor for cyber range operations in support of DCO/OCO activities for the US Cyber Command (USCC).  
• Integrate into a highly talented team of seasoned cyber operators and provide cyber range expertise to enable DCO and OCO operations for USCC as well as across the service components. 
• Maintain operational relevancy to ensure that training events and other products are consistent with recent trends and requirements in the DoD Cyber domain.
• Support cyber range event design and execution
• Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security
• Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities
• Drive continuous process improvement across all event activities.
• Provides expert-level IT, virtual environment, and network support functions.
• Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system
• Regularly interacts with the customers and leadership to establish training priorities and report on status of work.
• Be sensitive and flexible to the needs and requirements of the customer.
• Supervises and mentors a team of cybersecurity and training professions. 

Required Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as information technology, computer science, systems or software engineering from an accredited college or university.
• 8+ years of combined experience with Computer Network Operations (CNO)/ Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)/ Computer Network Defense (CND) platforms, cyber training, validation exercises, and working with cyber protection teams (CPTs), including planning, coordinating, and execution.  
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate), VMware VCP-Cloud, or other similar and relevant certifications.
• Active certifications in Red Hat, Linux, VMware, and/or Windows (install, configure, maintain and administer)
• Active and relevant network engineering certification such as JNCP, CCNA, Palo Alto, CCNA Cyber Ops, or others
• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II or greater certification such as Security+, CCNA, CISSP or other equivalent certification.

• Intermediate knowledge of the Joint Events Life Cycle (JELC)

   

• Intermediate knowledge of defensive and offensive cyber tools

   

• Relevant experience and certifications in network engineer to include: JNCP, CCNA, Palo Alto, CCNA Cyber Ops, or others

   

• Experience and certifications in Microsoft/Windows, Active Directory,