Job Details
Your Impact:
Founded in 2015, Knack Works was formed to address the demand for cutting edge development environments within the intelligence community. Knack Works is focused on providing scalable, automated solutions that enable our customers to perform their national security missions in an ever-changing environment of new technologies and evolving threats. Our flagship product, the Knack Stack, introduces flexible and automated hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service for cloud agnostic deployments and automation. It's designed to automate data management and security. Today, we are fortunate to realize our vision. We operate independently as Knack Works, a subsidiary of Jacobs, retaining our identity as a small business yet with the support from a large company.
Responsibilities:
Act as a strategic technical leader and technical resource manager, reporting to the executive Program Manager. Partner with internal and external senior leaders to effectively lead the shaping, capture, and delivery of multi-million-dollar growth efforts within the IC and DoD. Lead technical program or project teams. Support the client with critical missions and maintain responsibility for the leadership and development of experienced teams of professionals. Bring innovative thinking regarding technical management, software delivery, infrastructure architecture and deployment, end-to-end system solutioning, and customer management. Provide technical delivery leadership, technical business, resource, and client management for multiple software development infrastructure projects or programs. Maintain responsibility for providing guidance and direction on technical management, resource management, service delivery, and overall LOE contract performance. Debrief executive leadership with reviews of financial estimates and ROMs for new development efforts and lead and develop a diverse team of highly qualified technical professionals.
Here s What You ll Need:
At least 10 years of experience with managing the development of DevSecOps development environments and systems in the IC, DoD, Federal Government, or commercial entities
At least 10 years of experience with technical solutioning of complex highly integrated systems
Experience with managing projects using various SDLC models, CMMI, SAFe, Agile, cloud enabled solutions, architecture development, and "As a Service" offerings
Experience with software platform infrastructure architecture development and deployment
Must have experience as a Linux systems administrator for IC or DoD enterprise level environments
Must have experience building and managing container environments (Kubernetes, Docker) hosted on Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, AZURE) or hardware-based implementations, including virtualized environments on host machines
Network configuration experience routers, switches etc
Experience with infrastructure and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Foreman
Experience with direct program support to the Defense and Intelligence sectors
Experience with leading project teams and acting as the client technical trusted advisor
Knowledge of geospatial intelligence enterprise-wide systems, system-to-system integrations, and system development processes
Active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance required
Bachelor s degree
Preferred:
Experience writing technical proposal responses
Experience with cybersecurity for classified systems
Knowledge of the design, development, testing, implementation, and governance of software application programming frameworks, pipelines, and platforms for geospatial-related systems
Possession of excellent interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and senior government clients
TS/SCI FSP clearance preferred
Master s degree preferred
Project Management Professional (PMP, Agile Certified Professional (ACP), Certified ICAgile Professional, AWS Associate, AWS Professional, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification are all a plus
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