Project Technical Lead

Job#: 2046749

Job Description:

• Project Management: In coordination with the Project Manager, ensure the successful completion of engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Technical Direction: Establish project requirements and technical direction, guiding the engineering team’s technical work.
• DevSecOps Practices: Execute DevSecOps practices, procedures, and solutions to automate and improve existing system delivery.
• Architecture and Design: Make architecture and design decisions, working closely with the Chief Architect to ensure alignment with the portfolio’s overall vision and roadmap.
• Troubleshooting: Guide team members in troubleshooting technical issues and analyzing existing operations to identify risks and redundancies.
• Problem Resolution: Quickly identify, analyze, and resolve technical blockers to keep the project team progressing toward milestones.
• Collaboration: Work with customers, stakeholders, and cross-functional team members to bring solution options and drive decisions to meet stakeholder needs and customer requirements.
• Process Improvement: Collaborate with the Engineering Portfolio Manager to ensure consistent execution of processes and tools across the portfolio and provide suggestions for improvements.
• Innovation: Identify opportunities for improvement, including innovations aimed at enhancing user experience, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Security Practices: Adhere to security best practices and guidelines, leveraging your knowledge of security policies, network security, and data security.
• Risk Management: Support the execution of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) as a liaison between cybersecurity and engineering.
• Documentation: Support the development, documentation, and review of standard operating procedures, knowledge base articles, and other artifacts to support system operations.
• Mentorship: Mentor team members to foster their professional growth and address areas of improvement.
• Scalability: Help grow the solution and team to support DoD Fourth Estate with a targeted community of 400k users.

• Bachelor’s degree and 12-15 years of relevant experience, or master’s degree and 10-13 years of relevant experience.
• Expertise in managing a team of engineers, including mentoring and fostering communication and collaboration across the team.
• Expertise designing, deploying, and operating solutions built on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Expertise designing, deploying, and operating software-defined networking solutions.
• Expertise engineering, implementing, mitigating, monitoring, and tuning virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments and management software.
• Expert understanding of networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, proxies, routing (L2/L3), firewalls, and software-defined networking.
• Experience developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC), utilizing continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, and leveraging automation platforms such as Ansible or Azure Functions.
• Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements (NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively within a distributed technical team.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to earn IAT Level II (or higher) certification such as Security+.

• Current IAT Level II (or higher) certification such as Security+ or CISSP.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect.
• Experience working with DISA or other DoD entities.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence.

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