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Senior Cyber Range Engineer (High Level Clearance Required)

Location
Fort Meade, MD
Listed
3 days ago

What You Will Be Doing

The Senior Cyber Range Engineer for JCTE will provide technical (back end) expertise to support large scale cyber exercises and multi-spectrum cyber operations. Duties include:

  • Act as the principal advisor for cyber range operations in support of DCO/OCO activities for the US Cyber Command (USCC).
  • Integrate into a highly talented and seasoned cyber operators and provide cyber range expertise to enable DCO and OCO operations for USCC as well as across the service components.
  • Translate cyber mission force training and mission rehearsal goals into actionable event environments.
  • Support cyber range event design and execution
  • Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security
  • Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities
  • Drive continuous process improvement across all event activities.
  • Provides expert-level IT, virtual environment, and network support functions.

What You Must Have

  • Position requires a minimum of 8 years of related work experience
  • A minimum of 4 years of experience with CNO/CNE/CND platforms.
  • 5 years of experience with cyber training, validation exercises, and working with cyber protection teams (CPTs), including planning, coordinating, and execution.
  • Active high level clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a poly.
  • Due to contract requirements, US citizenship is required.
  • Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II or greater certification such as Security+, CCNA, CISSP or other equivalent certification.
  • Expert working knowledge of networking, to include DNS, routing, basic to advanced TCP/IP skills and troubleshooting.
  • Experience in MS, Active Directory, Security Onion, and VMWare.
  • Demonstrated understanding and hands on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Identity Management (IdM) and Single Sign On (SSO) using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as information technology, computer science, systems, software engineering or a related field.
  • Knowledge of the Joint Events Life Cycle (JELC) and defensive and offensive cyber tools
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of DNS: Authoritative vs. Recursive servers, SOA, NS, MX, A, and CNAME records
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of routing: OSPF static, BGP, route maps, access lists, prefix lists, advertise maps, and route weights.
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of exchange: Edge servers, recipient e-mail addressing, mailboxes, auto-configuration for Exchange clients.
  • Intermediate knowledge of Security Onion or SPLUNK: interface requirements, scalability landmines, Enterprise configurations (sensor and master). VMWare port properties and how they are tied to sensor ports and promiscuous modes.
  • Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business.
  • Prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
  • Interact with vendors/users/customers and developers to understand needs and operational requirements changes that will impact the production environment.
  • Ability to solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.

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At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.

Pay and benefits

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is

$119,323.00 - $202,850.00

Maryland Client Office (MD88)

About ICF

ICF is actively recruiting for an experienced Senior Cyber Range Engineer for the Joint Cyber Training Enterprise (JCTE) and will be expected to be a subject matter expert for cyber range validation, and range control. Additionally, the ideal candidate will address ad-hoc customer related technical requirements and synchronizing priorities across the platform's functional areas.

You must thrive in high pressure situations and drive relevant teams to take the right actions. The Senior Cyber Range Engineer will provide subject matter expert guidance on cyber range development and execution, systems administration, cybersecurity, and account management support for the JCTE and report directly to the Chief, Engineer for JCTE.

This work will be onsite supporting a program at Ft. Meade, MD. Flexibility to work additional hours is required.

Required Clearance: Active high level clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a poly.

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