Engineer and Implementation Manager

Position Overview:

The Engineering and Implementation Manager leads and oversees all enterprise engineering initiatives supporting Consular Affairs (CA) systems across domestic data centers and overseas posts. This role provides technical leadership for physical and virtual hosting environments; including Windows UNIX/Linux IaaS PaaS and software-defined infrastructure and plays a critical part in designing resilient redundant and scalable architectures. The Engineering and Implementation Manager is responsible for engineering services technical planning and implementation activities supporting CAs global infrastructure ensuring secure and reliable operations while guiding cloud transition efforts and modernization strategies. This position requires strong leadership of a large engineering and operations staff and extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a large engineering and operations team responsible for designing implementing and maintaining physical and virtual hosting environments across domestic and overseas CA locations.

• Provide engineering services for Windows and UNIX/Linux servers hypervisors converged infrastructure IaaS/PaaS platforms and cloud-transition architectures.

• Oversee enterprise-wide engineering and implementation of LAN and data center configurations including network integration with Department of State (DoS) managed environments.

• Develop operational designs for mission-critical systems ensuring resilience redundancy disaster recovery capability and cross-data-center failover (active/active and active/passive).

• Engineer shared nothing standby infrastructure to support automated switchover/failover with minimal human intervention.

• Plan prioritize and execute multiple engineering projects in parallel while maintaining alignment with production operations.

• Manage the implementation of technical changes design enhancements and process improvements in highly complex enterprise environments.

• Collaborate with architects developers operations teams and customer stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into actionable engineering solutions.

• Support the transition of applications/systems into cloud environments and hybrid architectures.

• Develop detailed project plans engineering design documents and implementation roadmaps for new capabilities features or infrastructure solutions.

• Ensure all infrastructure documentation is updated to reflect newly implemented changes configurations and system designs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance.

• Masters degree in computer science Information Technology Management or a related field and 15 years of relevant experience leading a large engineering and operations staff supporting programs of similar size scope and lieu of degree 20 years experience required.

• Demonstrated experience managing the implementation of technical and process changes in complex enterprise infrastructure environments.

• Proven ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including architects developers and operations personnel to gather requirements and design infrastructure capabilities.

• Demonstrated experience planning prioritizing and successfully delivering multiple concurrent engineering projects in coordination with production operations.

• Experience engineering solutions in both cloud and on-premises environments including hybrid architectures and cloud transition strategies.

• Experience supporting the transition of systems/applications into cloud hosting environments (IaaS/PaaS/hybrid).

• Strong experience designing resilient architectures with redundancy automated failover disaster recovery and multi-site hosting capabilities.

• Expertise with Windows and UNIX/Linux server platforms virtualization technologies networking and enterprise storage.

• Experience developing technical project plans engineering documentation and implementation designs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience introducing new technologies tools and engineering processes to improve availability monitoring management scalability patching and overall service delivery.

• Experience engineering and integrating networks within data centers and enterprise enclaves.

• Experience designing and implementing shared nothing architectures with active/active or active/passive failover capabilities.

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code automation/orchestration tools or cloud-native services.

• Experience transitioning legacy systems to modern cloud-ready architectures.

• Prior experience supporting the U.S. Department of State (DoS) FBI or Intelligence Community (IC) programs is highly preferred.

• Experience with Oracle technologies including database environments clustering or infrastructure integration is desired.

• Relevant technical certifications (e.g. Microsoft Red Hat VMware AWS/Azure Cisco Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Database or Cloud Infrastructure CompTIA Security and SAFe Agile Cert.).

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