lead Event Director / User Liaison

Eglin Lead Event Director - Senior

LOCATION: Eglin AFB, FL

JOB STATUS: Full-time

CLEARANCE: Active Secret

CERTIFICATION: N/A

TRAVEL: 10-20%

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a SE-4 NCRC Eglin Lead Event Director for the 96th Cyberspace Test Group's (CTG) National Cyber Range Center (NCRC) located at Eglin AFB, FL. for the Cyber TMAS II contract, supporting the Air Force.

Astrion has worked extensively with the Department of Defense executing a Technical Management and Advisory Service contract where it has earned a reputation for on-time delivery of high-quality products tailored to the needs of its clients.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Master's Degree and at least 10 years of relevant test or project management experience. Additional experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to gain and maintain Top Secret with SCI
• US Citizenship
• Ability/experience to lead, manage and operate independently to overcome difficult technical obstacles, and accomplish the mission with minimal guidance or direction.
• Experience in project/IPT management to include contracting and financial management.
• Ability effectively communicate with leadership (program directors/managers) and above personnel.
• Ability to ensure consistency to standards compliance, established processes and engineering tools as identified by the appropriate Engineering and Technology competencies.
• Proficiency in the use and integration of MS Office applications.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Skilled at integration, setup/configuration and testing of operating systems (Windows Server (2016, 2013, 2008 R2, 2003, 2000, NT), Windows Desktop (10, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95, 3.1), Linux (Red Hat 5, 6, 7), Fedora Core, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, and Solaris)
• Knowledge of Data Center operations; firewall concepts; network routers and switches. Experience with Amazon Web Services Network design and implementation and experience with Microsoft Azure Network design and implementation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for providing event planning guidance to Site Event Directors and ensuring alignment to NCRC Enterprise Event Planning and Execution processes.
• Build and lead cross-organization / service teams to provide engineering services associated with requirements development/decomposition for the design, testing, training and mission rehearsal of cyber security events for joint acquisition programs of record and operational cyber mission forces.
• Engage with Government Program Managers, Service OTAs, Service Cyber Mission Force personnel and NCRC Contractor Event Designers to specify customer cyber security event objectives and identify related NCRC capabilities that will be applied to conduct successful cybersecurity events at the NCRC.
• Cybersecurity (CS) events and span both system engineering related testing, engineering mitigations and operational mission training perspectives. The events may be executed within the NCRC or in a distributed fashion integrating multiple sites and remotely distributed assets.
• For CS events, the NCR ED works with the Program Managers to provide desired test design, execution, and analysis to the (system) program under test to shape CS test events and / or works with the customer to understand mission training objectives and ensure the NCR environment will be designed and configured to support.
• Serve as a senior technical SME for system design, operation, external system interface, integration of cyber security into USAF tactical, C4ISR and support information systems.
• Support the development of systems engineering documentation (architectures, systems engineering plans, design plans) Provide programmatic support for a wide range of 96 CTG test projects.