IT Systems Engineering Manager

Description

Job Description:

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Leidos is a FORTUNE 500 company bringing a mix of innovative technology and sector expertise to customers in the national security, engineering, and the health industries. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

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The Leidos Defense Group has a career opportunity for a IT System Engineering Manager supporting the AFNCR ITS contract. The job location will be primarily at Joint Base Andrews (JBA); however, this manager will also oversee team members at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB).  Leidos is seeking a broadly experienced Engineering Manager. Candidates must be able to successfully coordinate and accomplish multiple, concurrent tasks and projects supporting operations and maintenance, new engineering change task orders, technical refresh, new system improvement and modernization activities, and other major changes that occur. The successful candidate will be expected to advise and lead the engineering staff in implementing and maintaining current and new technology solutions.

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Leidos Defense Group provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. To explore and learn more, click here!

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Responsibilities Include:

• Communicate and interface with customer and Leidos Program Management, Technical leads, and Subject Matter Experts to provide Program status and to jointly present, lead, and work program issues, and technical solutions.

• Ensure that assessment of new performance work requests include all stakeholders, are properly sized, and submitted on-time to the customer per the required contractual delivery date.

• Ensure that all authorized performance work requests are completed on-time and within budget, the implementation is ready for deployment to customer test organizations or Production, and deliverables are integrated into the operations and maintenance baseline.

• Understand all applicable performance standards and ensure that all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met or exceeded so no monetary disincentive is levied against the contract.

• Provide engineering and technical expertise on all issues, performance work requests, system improvement efforts, and operations and maintenance activities.

• Collaborates with customer, stakeholders, and integrations team members to bring solution options and drive decisions on the way ahead to meet customer needs.

• Establishes and maintains relationships with Leidos partners, key vendors, and within Leidos to seek, qualify and leverage the best ideas, solutions, and models to meet customer needs.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• BS and 10+ years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree in Information Technology or related field of study with 8+ years of prior relevant experience

• 6+ years of experience in system architecture

• Must have demonstrated experience identifying, developing, and implementing engineering change solutions and new technology and solutions on a large, enterprise/national scale

• Project management experience for large, enterprise-level projects and proposals to include labor and workload estimates up to $5M

• Demonstrated experience in all phases of a project lifecycle.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a customer environment collaboratively through constraints to meet mission milestones.

• Excellent written and oral communications skills and management to include presentation and experience discussing technology at a large government agency’ CIO/CTO executive level

Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education:

Experience and working knowledge in as many of the following technologies is desired.  While not required, candidates that have some or all these skills will be considered significantly more positive than candidates with none of this experience.

• Network Operations

• Data center Operations

• Server virtualization

• Cloud Based Solutions

• Network Load Balancers

• Application cloud migrations

• Repeatable process automation

• Life cycle management and 5-year road map technology refresh for networks and data center infrastructure

Clearance Required:

• Requires an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI

AFNCR-CRR

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 47,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.   For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

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Commitment to Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.