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Responsibilities

The individual selected for this position will serve as a member of the Engineering Team within a Program Management Office (PMO) and will work with the PMO leadership, other offices, and the Sponsor’s mission partners to ensure goals and requirements are gathered, clearly articulated, documented, and tracked to closure. The individual will also be responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders in supporting a highly visible and fast-paced global network project that leverages engineering management principles.

Plan and facilitate Resource Authority (RA) Forums, Technical Authority (TA) Forums, Network Requirements Team (NRT) meetings, Engineer Working Group (EWG) meetings, Joint Engineering Team (JET) meetings, Technical Expert Meetings (TEMs), and other ad hoc meetings, summits, and conferences as appropriate.

Participate in enterprise-level network efforts and help define solutions for presentations to IC customers' engineering teams for review and discussion. These efforts include:

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) concepts and designs and SD-WAN network operations.

Network equipment such as multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, and gateways, etc.

Communications and information security policies and practices.

Support software-defined network architecture and scaling to accommodate a global network.

Demonstrate experience and knowledge of eBGP, OSPF, communities, and route policy language (RPL) on service- provider on-premises infrastructure.

Support modeling and simulation of interagency network architectures to inform capacity planning and future bandwidth requirements.

Support traffic engineering capabilities and the resiliency of the network that supports external Sponsor entities' connectivity to cloud resources.

Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with experience facilitating discussions on technical issues and the ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.

Be proactive and a self-starter.

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Qualifications

Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline.

BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7

Ability to create original concepts and theories for various projects.

Ability to adapt equipment and technology to meet user needs.

Ability to logically and systematically convert customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

Ability to analyze complex system requirements through activities such as the following: Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Apply the concept of operations set of disciplines for the planning, analysis, design, and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization.

Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology.

Experience with activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control, risk analysis, modern business methods, and performance measurement techniques.

Desired:

Master's degree (or equivalent experience) in a field related to the position.

3 years' experience in the Intelligence Community.

Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.

Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Equal Pay Act

This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

Min: $135,035.83 Max: $234,801.11 EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.