Deputy Task Lead

The Deputy Task Lead will work alongside the Project Task Lead to provide oversight to a team responsible for building operating securing defending and extending enterprise-scale data strategies architectures and applications. The Deputy Task Lead will support the management of contractor personnel responsible for the IT services and providing direction and guidance to the subordinate teams consisting of server network database service and other related teams that are responsible for 12 separate networks and telecommunications systems of all classification levels serving more than 400 users. The Deputy Task Lead shall use IT industry best practices to deliver various IT services. The Deputy Task Lead be responsible for the quality and efficiency of the contractors performance and will assist the Government with all financial and business processes of the task excluding inherently governmental functions.

The Deputy Task Lead will assist in managing approximately 50 contractors consisting of network engineers Tier 1 support software developers cloud architects knowledge management professionals project managers and data scientists.

As the Deputy Task Lead the candidate will work with team leads to:

• Provide functional knowledge of operational and support processes for their service area.
• Clarify/resolve process-related activities for technical team.
• Understand existing and proposed delivery process procedures and tools by function.
• Monitor and report progress against plans through final acceptance and signoff.
• Manage coordinate and resolve project issues decisions and risks.
• Personnel / Performance Management: Responsibilities include interviewing selection and hiring; training new and existing employees; planning assigning and directing work; addressing employee performance and corrective action plans; employee motivation and rewards.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of relevant experience may have supervisory or management experience.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Experience leading and supervising teams in a Government networking and infrastructure environment (classified and unclassified).
• Experience leading and supervising the building operating securing defending and extending Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) systems including wireless components firewalls routing and switching Internet Protocol version 6 (IPV6) VPN cloud computing virtualized servers storage arrays and other IT/data systems. Experience with unified communications including leading and supervising the design installation maintenance and administration of VTC system for multi-level classification environments (Unclassified Secret and TS/SCI).
• Experience briefing a Senior Government leadership on agency-wide planned recommended and directed actions to enable unity of effort and operational effectiveness.
• Experience overseeing personnel receiving interpreting planning briefing executing and reporting on orders issued by the Commander of USCYBERCOM or one of their subordinate Commanders the National Manager for National Security Systems and/or other authorized Commander with Command authority.

Desired Skills:

• PMP certification.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Developer - Associate AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate MS Certified Azure Fundamentals MS Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).
• ITIL Foundations level certification.
• Experience leading and supervising teams performing IT (Cyberspace) Cybersecurity Software engineering and/or Data/AI.
• Demonstrated familiarity with supervised/unsupervised machine learning and familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to support fielding of artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities for government-directed use-cases.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.