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Senior Cyber Engineer

PeopleTec, Inc.

Huntsville, AL • On-site

Full-time

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Job description

Opportunity

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Senior Cyber Engineer to support our Huntsville, Alabama location.

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Senior Cyber Engineer to support our Huntsville location! Candidate will serve as a liaison between engineering development teams and provide training content development and instruction to customers/stakeholders and end users for STARCOM's cyber range development efforts. Additionally, candidate will augment and lead IT Architecture and Systems Integration.

Duties:

  • Interact with government stakeholders for cyber range design, development, and integration activities providing course design and instruction
  • Develop course-ware and provide instruction supporting STARCOM's Cyber Range activities to Space Force and other DOD, government and commercial end users.
  • Coordinate requirements and user feedback with cyber engineering development team.
  • Provide senior space operational expertise support to development team.
  • Support development and integration roadmap planning for cyber range development efforts.
  • Support cyber test events.
  • As effort grows, help lead multidisciplinary teams in support of cyber test and training range development and integration efforts.
Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

  • 10 years of DOD cyber course development, instruction and assessment experience required.
  • Demonstrated cyber operational leadership shaping cyber training, and cyber range implementation.
  • Extensive experience with high performance computing architecture modeling and simulation (M&S), incident response, and compliance assessments.
  • Travel: 15-25%
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen
  • An active DoD TS/SCI clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active TS/SCI clearance upon hire, and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree with relevant cyber Master's. 

Desired Skills:

  • Direct experience supporting Space Force in cybersecurity or training capacity.
  • 8140 CSSP Auditor certification (CEH, CySA+, CISA, CHFI).
  • CMMC familiarization and certification.
  • Recent cyber project acquisition cost, schedule, and performance experience support USSF Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI).
Overview

People First. Technology Always.

PeopleTec, Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville, AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

Culture: The name "PeopleTec" was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our company's foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere, we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

Career: At PeopleTec, we value your long-term goals. Whether it's through our continuing-education opportunities, our robust training programs, or our "People First" benefits package, PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.

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EEO Statement

PeopleTec, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following email address, applicationhelp@peopletec.com and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec, Inc.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. PeopleTec, Inc. participates in E-Verify.

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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