Systems Integration Lab SIL Manager
- San Antonio, TX
- $104,650-189,175 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage and lead the systems integration lab to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of lab facilities.
- 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 the 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, with focus on ensuring interoperability between different systems and platforms.
- System engineering expertise required for some or all the following areas: 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, to include designs for capacity and performance planning; performing risk assessments; and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns.
- Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on various projects.
- Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and processes and assist in conducting evaluations to determine suitability for project implementation and develop new or innovative approaches to technical or engineering issues.
- Support rigorous testing and validation of systems in simulated and real world environments.
- Mentor junior systems engineers to build technical expertise within the organization and foster collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
- Communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.
- Prepare and perform briefings appropriate for senior leadership (i.e., general officer or flag officer).
- Support development of standards, metrics and measures to support assessments, process improvements and operational efficiencies across HNCD.
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related experience or a Masters and 6+
be considered in lieu of a degree.. * Must have a DoD 8570 IAT Level II approved certification (CompTIA Security+)
- Proven experience leading technical teams, providing direction, mentorship, and coordination to achieve project goals
- Hands-on experience operating within Agile frameworks, contributing to iterative planning, development, and delivery cycles
- Skilled in designing, deploying, testing, implementing, and migrating complex network infrastructure solutions
- Practical expertise in SD-WAN technologies, including platforms such as Cisco, VERSA, and Juniper
- Deep knowledge of large-scale WAN environments, MPLS architecture, and core routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and ISIS
- Strong background in campus and enterprise networking, with a focus on high availability and performance optimization
- Proficient in conducting in-depth research to troubleshoot networking issues and evaluate emerging technologies and products
- Experienced in creating technical diagrams and network documentation using Microsoft Visio
- US Citizen with at least a Secret security clearance eligible to upgrade to Top Secret for access to SCI
- 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.
- Hands-on experience with Firewalls (e.g. Palo Alto, Cisco, Juniper, etc.).
- Familiarity/Experience with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPsec, TLS, PKI.
- Strong understanding of SASE/SSE Zero Trust principles/products (Cisco Secure Access, Prisma, zScaler, VERSA, AppGate, etc.).
- Professional and/or Expert level Certifications/Specializations in industry leading SDN technology (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, VERSA, etc.).
- Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and tools to provide bestpractice insight and best-in-class recommendations to management.
- Demonstrated advanced technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to solve problems and resolve project dysfunction using creativity or leveraging core values.
- Experience should be beyond just user admin level and include building environments from the ground up, maintenance and deep troubleshooting.