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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Polygraph
IT - Software
Chantilly, VA (On-Site/Office)
Overview
This position is for a Tech Lead for the enterprise PKI program. The Tech Lead will work with a team of engineers, developers, cybersecurity engineers, system architects, and testers.
Core business hours are typically from 9 AM - 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures. Some after hours or weekend work may be required to accommodate system deployments and upgrades.
While not required, it is highly desirable for the Candidate to have knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and understand key concepts like digital certificates, Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), key management practices, cryptographic algorithms, certificate revocation procedures, and trust models. Additionally, the ability to design a robust system to issue, manage, and revoke digital certificates while ensuring the integrity and authenticity of users and entities within a network is desirable. Candidates who do not have all these abilities, but have the ability to learn them, will be considered.
What will you do?
Do you have what it takes?
This position is for a Tech Lead for the enterprise PKI program. The Tech Lead will work with a team of engineers, developers, cybersecurity engineers, system architects, and testers.
Core business hours are typically from 9 AM - 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures. Some after hours or weekend work may be required to accommodate system deployments and upgrades.
While not required, it is highly desirable for the Candidate to have knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and understand key concepts like digital certificates, Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), key management practices, cryptographic algorithms, certificate revocation procedures, and trust models. Additionally, the ability to design a robust system to issue, manage, and revoke digital certificates while ensuring the integrity and authenticity of users and entities within a network is desirable. Candidates who do not have all these abilities, but have the ability to learn them, will be considered.
What will you do?
- Provide technical guidance to the team's System Engineers and Developers
- Provide status updates to contract PMO and government staff lead
- Assist in completing monthly Program Management Review (PMR) charts
- Represent the team at staff meetings, requirements meetings, tech lead meetings, and TEMs
- Represent the team at community wide working groups and coordinate the sponsor's response to action items
- Shepherd new requirements thru the sponsor's requirements process / pipeline
- Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and security requirements
- Work with the team's security engineer to address/mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
- Prepare communications for upcoming releases
- Work with the government staff lead and project team lead to prioritize work
- Work with all Cloud Service Providers to meet their PKI requirements
- Research new technologies / products that will help increase the overall Authentication security posture for sponsor systems
Do you have what it takes?
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
- Typically requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and relevant experience as follows:
- Minimum of 15 years of demonstrable experience
- Significant experience with System Architecture and Engineering
- Familiarity with the sponsor's enterprise systems
- Working knowledge of PKI Certificates
- Significant experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft, Google, and/or Oracle)
- Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)
- Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python
- Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes
- Experience with Jira
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