Software Engineering Manager

the Greater Washington D.C.

area, Nationwide

In the Greater Washington D.C.

area, Nationwide

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Software Development – Engineering Manager to lead and contribute to a geographically diverse team of engineers with 8-10 members.

This position supports both ECS & IPSS programs and future cyber programs providing architecture and systems engineering support to mitigate cyber intrusions onto CenturyLink’s ISP network in support of US Government networks.

This position is a highly technical and hands-on position requiring the selected candidate to both lead and participate in multiple team environments and to provide independent efforts to all aspects of system integration including design, needs analysis, design review, testing, implementation, and validation.

The position will require briefing senior government officials on the status of CenturyLink Government’s ISP and cyber security capabilities.

Primary responsibilities include personnel and task supervision, task estimating and planning, and individual development activities.

Management Requirements:

– Bachelor degree in a related field or equivalent work experience in the software engineering, network engineering, and/or cyber security fields

– Leading development teams with a strong preference for experience leading teams located in multiple geographic regions and time zones

– Scoping development activities, specifically evaluating requirements to determine release scope, schedule, and resource allocations

– Execute development activities in accordance with established delivery plan and schedule.

– Demonstrated ability to work in a consultative manner with others, specifically establishing rapport, interviewing/fact-finding, defining requirements, presenting options/recommending solutions, following-up, and engaging customers

– Ability to work in a dynamic team environment with changing requirements and competing priorities

– Ability to work cross functionally with engineers, project managers, technicians, and customers

Technical requirements:

– Exceptional interpersonal skills to lead a technical team of engineers

– Experience with Linux (Redhat, CentOS) at the command line and familiar with server level technology

– PXE, Kickstart, Automated system builds

– Understanding with virtualization and virtual networking (VMware).

– Familiarity with IPTables and SELinux.

Job Requires:

– 8-12 years current hands on systems engineering experience

– A Bachelor’s Degree and/or Advanced degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science and experience, or a strong interest in, the cyber security field.

– Knowledge and experience should include computer network operations, network access and protection techniques and technologies, software coding, encryption and cross domain solutions

– Available 24/7 for Network Outages and Maintenance window work.

– Candidate must be a US Citizen with an active Department of Defense TOP SECRET clearance