Program Task Lead

Task Lead will serve as a project lead to provide oversight to a government agency's IT infrastructure, telecommunications requirements, and service desk. The Task Lead will manage approximately 50 contractors who are responsible for the IT services and providing direction and guidance to the subordinate teams consisting of server, network, database, service, and other related teams that are responsible for 12 separate networks and telecommunications systems of all classification levels serving more than 400 users. The Team consists of network engineers, Tier 1 support, software developers, cloud architects, knowledge management professionals, project managers and data scientists. The Task Lead will use DEVSECOPS principals and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) practices to work on various IT services according to standard practices. The Task Lead will manage employees responsible for managing the planning, programming, and execution of program and infrastructure requirements. The Task Lead will be responsible for the quality and efficiency of the contractor's performance and will assist the Government with all financial and business processes of the task.

As the Task Lead, the candidate will work with team leads to:

Provide functional knowledge of operational and support processes for their service area.
• Clarify/resolve process-related activities for technical team.
• Understand existing and proposed delivery process, procedures, and tools by function.
• Monitor and report progress against plans through final acceptance and signoff.
• Manage, coordinate, and resolve project issues, decisions, and risks.
• Personnel / Performance Management: Responsibilities include interviewing, selection and hiring; training new and existing employees; planning, assigning and directing work; addressing employee performance and corrective action plans; employee motivation and rewards.

Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience.
• Active/current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Demonstrated experience running a DEVSECOPS Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Demonstrated experience building plans and leading engineering in support of migration to multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience implementing "Infrastructure as Code".
• Demonstrated experience leading and supervising teams in a Government networking and infrastructure environment (classified and unclassified).
• Demonstrated understanding DoD Network Operations C2, and demonstrated ability to develop and present plans to execute orders received (e.g. TASKORDs, OPORDs).
• Demonstrated understanding of creating/implementing "data lakes" and other aspects of modern data strategies.
• Demonstrated experience implementing enterprise-scale ICAM and zero trust strategies.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead a hybrid on-site/remote work team.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification.
• Cloud certifications, such as, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate, MS Certified Azure Fundamentals, MS Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).
  • Completed ITIL Foundations level certification.
  • Familiarity with supervised/unsupervised machine learning
  • Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs) pipelines to support fielding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities for government-directed use-cases.
  • Experience with system and network security implementation and management.
  • Experience with secure coding practices including the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
  • Experience working in compliance with the DoD and AF policies related to technology development and testing.
  • Experience working with Agile development methodologies.

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