Secure Infrastructure Section Manager

Job Description:

V2X Aerospace Solutions is seeking a Cyber & Infrastructure Engineering Section Manager who is passionate about leading a team of cyber/network engineers committed to making our customers missions successful. This Section Manager provides leadership to a team of engineers who implement cyber/network solutions for our embedded and avionics products as well as systems for Department of Defense (DoD) platforms. This is a technical growth area which requires technical knowledge and experience to apply system security engineering principles to address program protection concerns within the key areas of cybersecurity, anti-tamper, software assurance, and supply chain risk management. A V2X Engineering Section Manager leads their staff through all phases of program development, starting with the early pursuit phases, establishing solid proposal positions, through all design, implementation, and testing phases ensuring high quality engineering execution is performed on time and on budget and finally supporting program transitions to manufacturing, sustainment, and support of fielded systems all to ensure we meet the contractual requirements of our customers while exceeding their expectations.

People Management
- Leadership and management of 15-20 cyber engineers, system admins / network admins located around the CONUS with some OCONUS.
- Supporting career development of the individuals in the section through technical and leadership training, program rotations for exposure to a broad set of customers and technologies, and performance feedback to foster individual & career growth.
- Performing workforce planning to meet program and project requirements. Including the assignment of personnel to meet program needs and hiring/recruiting to support department and business growth objective
- Proactively communicating across the section with an established cadence to communicate clear priorities and organization updates.
- Holding crucial/difficult conversations including addressing performance issues to improve employee performance.
- Maintaining a strong succession plan for key positions across programs.
Program / Business Support
- Delivery of customer commitments for the cyber engineering performance on programs within the section, and the coaching of team leaders within the department to achieve program goals.
- Partnering with Chief Engineers, Chief Technologist, and other Engineering Discipline Managers to deliver high quality proposals and meet business and customer commitments in our program results.
- Maintaining constant and regular engagement for all supported programs to ensure the team performance meets or exceeds the program plan.
  Working closely with program and business area managers to ensure customer satisfaction and business alignment. Interfacing with customers and users to build relationships and develop roadmaps of solutions to meet their needs.
- Driving new business growth through proactive engagement to identify on-contract growth (ECPs), lead white paper development, engineering estimations, and proposal responses.

Engineering Organizational Support

Lead, develop and mentor engineers in the performance of cybersecurity risk assessments, implementation of security solutions and achievement of Authorization to Operate for systems.
Engage with a development of a cohesive approach to address cyber requirements as they impact engineering development
Supporting Engineering improvement initiatives to include innovation, technologies, and methodologies.
Delivering weekly and monthly reports detailing engineering highlights and key employee accomplishments.
Establishing and executing a Section Strategy aligned with the Departments vision and goals.
Facilitating and encouraging mentoring and knowledge dissemination across the organization.
Manage our engineering network team and resources that provide the infrastructure for cross discipline engineering work within V2X

Individual Skills

Maintaining a professional attitude, to serve as an example to the team, with team members, other functional organizations, internal and external customers.
Communicating effectively to large groups and senior leaders.

Required Skills:

Minimum of 12 years of related engineering experience working in the DoD development industry.
Current or ability to obtain within 3 months, IAM level 2 or greater cybersecurity certification per DoD 8570.01; such as CISSP
Experience with secure systems technologies, methodologies, policies, and guidelines such as NSAs CSfC
Experience applying the Department of Defense (DoD) Risk Management Framework (RMF) to enterprise and embedded systems
Experience in Network development and sustainment in both cloud (MS Azure) and on-prem environments
Experience in performing cyber vulnerability analysis on architectures and design across enterprise and embedded systems
Experience with the implementation of defensive cyber products within enterprise and embedded systems
Ability to manage a group of engineers (15+).
Ability to manage, train and mentor staff.
Very strong organizational and team development skills
Strong leadership and communication skills
Proven ability to lead an engineering team through the engineering pursuits and proposals
Demonstrated knowledge of other related disciplines (e.g. System, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Configuration Management, Mission Assurance)
Experience briefing (both written and oral) effectively to all levels of the organization, from peers to senior management

Desired Skills:

Masters Degree in Systems Engineering, or other relevant technical discipline.
Experience bidding and oversight of Firm Fixed Price (FFP) programs.
Experience in the application of Model Based Systems Engineering
Experience working on international programs.
Experience in capture management: create/reviewing RFPs, SOWs, BOEs, tech volumes, proposals.
Existing DOD Secret Clearance
Experience in software design and implementation in embedded systems for DoD platforms
Experience with multi-level security solutions
Experience with commercial-off-the-shelf security technologies and trusted products
Knowledge of reverse engineering principles and methods
Experience/familiarity with design, development, and implementation with Anti-Tamper (HW, SW, Systems) techniques
Experience in influencing Software/Firmware Assurance principles and developmental practices

Education

Job Requirements:

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics and 15+ years of relevant experience - or
Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics and 8+ years of relevant experience

Job Ident #: SECUR012996

Company Details

V2X

555 Industrial Drive South
Madison, Mississippi 39110 USA
www.vtxaero.com

V2X has long been an industry leader in delivering a full spectrum of Aviation Aftermarket Services with a strong legacy of extreme customer and mission focus. V2X is a global and premier provider of “best value” services in their respective markets and...

Supported Manufacturers:
95% military aircraft

Supported Models:

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Job Info

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Type

Permanent

Company Details

V2X

555 Industrial Drive South
Madison, Mississippi 39110 USA
www.vtxaero.com