Group Lead Classified Infrastructure

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Department Summary:

MITRE's Classified Enterprise Infrastructure Services team is seeking a Group Lead in support of MITRE's enterprise classified infrastructure service portfolio. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the development, operational, and sustainment of one or more capabilities or services in the portfolio.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• The group leader will be responsible for all aspects of staff management, financial planning, and technology implementation & Operational support. This will include growth of staff as well as expanding certifications.
• Partner with their employees and PLs to find work that is aligned with the employees' interests, strengths, skills, and career development goals. Continually seek and create opportunities for their employees to provide the most significant impact.
• Approve, reject, or adjust a PLs initial request for an employee's capacity within a project staff plan. Addressing over/under capacity challenges for the initial staff plans.
• Track employees' coverage in a staffing tool managed by PLs to identify and respond to over/under capacity challenges. Working directly with the PL to include approving, adding and removing employees from plan, eliminating overbooking within a reasonable range set by the enterprise and managing employee availability across projects.
• Collaborate with PLs throughout the year to discuss employee performance and identify appropriate feedback, coaching and/or actions (e.g., recognition, development, skill enhancement and performance improvement conversations).
• Solicit and provide regular feedback to employee(s) to help them grow and perform in their project role/labor category.
• Validate skill accuracy of staff and regularly plan, review and initiate training requests for their employees.
• Coach and provide professional development feedback to grow employees' skills, knowledge, and abilities to ensure successful delivery and to become a trusted advisor to MITRE sponsors at every level.
• Ensure the technical quality expectations of their team members are met.
• Responsible for managing all levels of technical staff across multiple environments and roles to maintain compliance and security standards, while maintaining and expanding capabilities across same.

*If this is a GL Requisition, please include this addendum: GL Addendum

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Strong management and organizational skills
• Knowledge of server virtualization technologies including VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix.
• Basic networking, including data center and application layer networking.
• Strong knowledge of automation techniques for deployment of systems and services with tools such as Chef, Ansible, PowerShell and the Atlassian suite of tools.
• Project management skills including agile development techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Self-organized and able to manage a team of 8+ junior and senior staff.
• Top Secret Clearance
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

The Group Lead will be expected to have deep technical expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Expertise in team building and collaboration.
• Working across other departments to ensure security controls are met and maintained.
• Experience partnering with company and government security organizations to maintain compliance of NIST SP 800-53 or similar security and privacy security IT controls including resolution of POA&Ms
• Understanding of budget planning.
• Virtualization (Citrix, VMWare)
• Storage and Backup (Commvault, Pure, Vast, NetApp)
• Collaboration (email, skype etc.)
• Automation (Chef, Ansible)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Top Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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