Systems Integration Lab Manager

Leidos seeks a highly qualified Systems Integration Lab Manager with strong working knowledge of network engineering to provide expert guidance and direction underpinning Leidos on-site support to Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/Cyber and Networks Directorate.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead the systems integration lab to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of lab facilities.
• Ensure the Cloud team is tasked appropriately and possesses the skillsets to effectively manage a large AWS environment.
• Ensure cloud solutions provided by the team leverage elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation, and high availability.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand their requirements and ensure these requirements are translated into effective cloud patterns.
• Manage lab resources, including budgeting and equipment/material procurement.
• Provide expert full system engineering lifecycle support on complex data systems and networks.
• Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance execution leadership and guidance.
• Responsible for surveying, engineering, installing, configuring, and reliably operating computer systems, servers, and networks.
• Provide strategic leadership on complex policy issues involving technology such as Data Analytics, Autonomous Systems, and Cybersecurity.
• Integrate hardware, software, and network solutions to enhance the Air Force's HNCD operational capabilities.
• System engineering expertise required for system architecture and design, requirements analysis and development, data flow analysis, network design and implementation, and testing and documentation.
• Provide guidance for system development and implementation through plans assessment.
• Develop system configuration documentation, including designs for capacity and performance planning.
• Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on various projects.
• Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and processes.
• Support rigorous testing and validation of systems in simulated and real-world environments.
• Mentor junior systems engineers to build technical expertise within the organization.
• Communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner.
• Prepare and perform briefings appropriate for senior leadership.
• Support development of standards, metrics, and measures to support assessments, process improvements, and operational efficiencies across HNCD.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of related experience or a Master's and 10+ years of related experience.
• US Citizen with at least a Secret security clearance eligible to upgrade to Top Secret for access to SCI.
• DoD 8570 certifications.
• IAT II, OS.
• Demonstrated technical team leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience working within the Agile framework.
• Prior experience with designing, deploying, testing, implementing, and migrating network infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with SD-WAN technologies.
• Extensive knowledge/experience of large-scale WAN, MPLS, routing protocols, and internet technologies.
• Strong campus/enterprise networking experience.
• Able to conduct research into networking issues and products as required.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Visio.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with API automation/orchestration tools/systems such as Ansible and Python Scripting.
• Familiarity working within structured CI/CD DevOps pipelines.
• Strong understanding of virtualization, hypervisor, HCI, cloud-native, and container technologies.
• Prior experience with Public/Gov/DoD Cloud environments and implementing virtualized network infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, IAM permissions, storage, and infrastructure security concepts.
• Understanding of SIEM/SOAR platforms, their operational functions, and supporting infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience supporting Elastic SIEM, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, or comparable security platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Firewalls.
• Familiarity/Experience with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPsec, TLS, PKI.
• Strong understanding of SASE/SSE Zero Trust principles/products.
• Professional and/or Expert level Certifications/Specializations in industry leading SDN technology.
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies including public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes environments.
• Knowledge of Agile and processes and techniques and SDLC.
• Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and tools.
• Demonstrated advanced technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems and resolve project dysfunction using creativity or leveraging core values.