Job Description
BAE Systems is seeking an experienced Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to work collaboratively to support a hybrid cloud environment, providing technical leadership to manage Tier-2 support for multi-cloud (AWS, Azure GCC-High, Google and Oracle) and on-prem environments while ensuring a secure and reliable operational environment. This position will work closely with subject matter experts and development (DevSecOps) teams to deliver high quality solutions.
In terms of Tier-2 Support, this leadership roles entails the following:
Ability to maintain operational readiness for all accredited systems and assist the adoption of advanced engineering for production systems across multi-cloud cloud platforms and on-premises infrastructure.
Oversee helpdesk functions to provide timely assistance to end-users
Provide full life cycle management for engineering support to all endpoints, including desktop/ laptop, patching, etc.
Experience with anticipatory monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex incidents escalated from Tier-0/1 support.
Oversee security monitoring, vulnerability assessment and management, and risk mitigation.
Ability to oversee ICD-503 compliance requirements, security and resilient operations for critical IT infrastructure and services.
Manage traditional network engineering tasks such as VLAN management, configuration backups, and real-time device monitoring.
Conduct regular performance assessments of lT systems and proactively identify opportunities for improvement or remediation
Perform other traditional IT maintenance, including:
Network device monitoring, performance optimization, and configuration management.
Endpoint lifecycle tasks such as provisioning, imaging, patching, and hardware replacement
Routine infrastructure management, including power, cooling, and hardware lifecycle
This leadership role requires technical acumen, strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset: activities will include achieving daily O&M objectives to achieve highly reliable operational results; coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff; and collaborating with subject matter experts and government personnel on a technical level, requiring deep technical knowledge.
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Required Skills and Education
- 10 or more years of direct IT management experience
- BA, MS or MBA in a related field (Computer Science, Engineering, IT Management, Businesses Management, Economics, or Finance.
- Additionally, direct managerial experience of Tier 2 (Tier 3 would be a plus).
- Experience in system administration, network engineering, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity with an emphasis on security compliance.
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About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security
Intelligence & Security (I&S), based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do—from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
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Preferred Skills and Education
- Any of the following certifications: Security+, CySA+, CASP+, CISSP, CCSP, CCNP, Network+
- Experience administering physical and digital infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Intermediate certifications from Cloud Service Providers AWS and Azure.
- Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.).
- Experience working with VMWare and maintaining the underlying physical host environment
- Experience migrating applications into a cloud hosted environment
- Experience with security tools and practices related to DevSecOps (e.g., SAST, DAST, IAST)
- Experience and general knowledge of compliance standards (e.g., OWASP, NIST) and ICD-503 standards
- Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Bicep, Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies.
- Understanding of container security and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).