Location: Orlando, FL or Hanscom, MA
Years’ Experience: 12+ years professional IT experience
Education: Bachelor’s Degree Required
Clearance: Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance. United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.
Certifications:
· An active CompTIA Security+ certification is required.
· One or more of the following certifications preferred:
o CISSP
o CySA+
o AWS or Azure Cloud Security certification
o Kubernetes or container security certification
Key Skills:
· Experience developing, sustaining, or leading technical efforts for legacy Modeling and Simulation, training, or mission planning systems, including models, systems, and interfaces.
· Must have deep understanding of legacy environments with hands on experience.
Responsibilities
· Lead technical sustainment and transition of a legacy Modeling and Simulation or training baseline within a larger operational portfolio.
· Serve as the primary technical authority for understanding legacy behaviors, interfaces, dependencies, and operational constraints.
· Coordinate daily with engineering teams, incumbent contractors, and Government stakeholders to support sustainment and transition activities.
· Guide engineers implementing fixes, integrations, and transition paths while ensuring legacy training and simulation artifacts remain operational.
· Support transition engineering efforts that integrate legacy systems into broader, modernized environments.
· Partner with cybersecurity and DevSecOps teams to address findings, maintain compliance, and ensure legacy components remain deployable.
· Provide technical leadership, risk awareness, and execution discipline across sustainment and modernization efforts.
· Contribute to technical planning, execution tracking, and continuous improvement activities.
Qualifications
· Must have 12+ years professional engineering experience.
· Must currently possess an active Secret security clearance.
· Bachelors degree required.
· An active CompTIA Security+ certification is required.
· One or more of the following certifications preferred:
o CISSP
o CySA+
o AWS or Azure Cloud Security certification
o Kubernetes or container security certification
· Demonstrated experience developing, sustaining, or leading technical efforts for legacy Modeling and Simulation, training, or mission planning systems, including models, systems, and interfaces.
· 2+ years of military mission planning, operational, or wargaming experience and supporting simulation or training environments used by operational or command organizations.
· Experience transitioning legacy systems into modern, service-based or cloud-enabled architectures.
· Exposure to environments where modern and legacy systems coexist.
· Proven experience integrating and fielding simulation or training capabilities in operational environments.
· Experience working with cloud-based services such as AWS or Azure and RESTful architectures used to host or integrate legacy capabilities.
· Demonstrated ability to lead technical sustainment and transition activities for legacy systems.
· Experience supporting Air Force or DoD Modeling and Simulation or training systems.
· Familiarity with operational training, simulation, or stimulation artifacts and associated fielding patterns.
· Experience supporting systems used by command centers or operational planning organizations.
· Familiarity with secure enterprise or platform-based delivery environments.
· Proven experience coordinating with multiple contractors and Government stakeholders during sustainment, integration, or transition efforts.
· Working knowledge of DoD cybersecurity practices, including coordination with security teams to sustain and remediate legacy components.
· Ability to lead, mentor, and manage engineers in a mission-focused, multi-disciplinary environment.
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