Forward Support Team Technical Lead

Job Number

R0235555

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution.

As a Forward Support Team Technical (FST) Lead, provide technical leadership and supervision for JLCCTC technicians, MCIS administrators, and systems administrators. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to ensure training exercises run seamlessly, maintain compliance with DoD standards, and drive continuous improvement across all simulation and command-and-control infrastructures.

• 5+ years of experience with Military training and training support
• 5+ years of experience in integrating training environments, planning architectures, and stimulation of Army Mission Command Information Systems (MCiS) in support of training events and distributed exercises
• 3+ years of experience in a supervisory role leading technical teams
• 2+ years of experience in performing system enhancements and installing software updates
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree
• DoDM 8140 Certification

• Experience in leadership role at a DoD or Army training institution
• Experience with Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting languages, such as Power Shell, Python, or Bash
• Knowledge of cloud services for defense, such as AWS Gov Cloud or Azure Government, and infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or Ansible
• Ability to track records of process improvement in high-tempo, exercise-driven environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• DoDM 8140 Advanced Certifications, such as Technical Support Specialist, System Administrator, or Product Support Manager Certification
• CISSP, PMP, Cisco CCNP, or VMware VCP Certification

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Secret clearance is required.

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This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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• If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

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