Chief Engineer

Bravura Inc.; al-Ahmadi; On-site; KWD 36,822 - 46,027; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Competitive salary

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A defense contracting firm in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait is seeking a Chief Engineer to lead engineering activities, oversee projects, and ensure compliance for sensitive operations. Ideal candidates will possess at least 10 years of relevant experience, including significant exposure to DoD operations. Strong leadership, technical expertise, and a Top Secret clearance are essential attributes for this role, where a Bachelor's Degree is also required. This position offers the opportunity to work on critical infrastructure and enhance warfighter capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years total experience in IT, with 3+ years in a combatant command.
• Top Secret clearance is required.
• Mastery of engineering IT solutions for NIPRNET and SIPRNET.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all engineering activities and project delivery.
• Design networks and systems architecture.
• Provide technical guidance to Operations Leadership.

Skills

Network engineering

Systems administration

Virtualization technologies

Technical assistance

Leadership skills

Cybersecurity compliance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

IAT Level III Certification

Tools

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Kubernetes

Windows Server

NetApp

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Job description

Overview

Location: Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

Education/Certifications: Bachelor’s Degree (Will accept Associate’s and 4 additional years of experience or High School Diploma with 8 additional years of experience); VCAP or higher OR NCIE

Years of Experience: 10+ years total – 3+ years supporting a Combatant Command, 2+ years supporting DoD, and 5+ years supporting relevant civilian efforts

Clearance Level & Investigation: Top Secret

IA Cert Level (DoD 8570.01): IAT III

Computing Environment Certifications: Virtual Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) or a higher-level Virtual Certification OR NetApp Certified Engineer (NCIE)

The Chief Engineer is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all engineering activities. This position directs, oversees, and supports delivery of new capabilities and projects; effectively troubleshoots issues spanning multiple disciplines; assists with health monitoring of Operating System (OS), routers, switches, application processes, and services; creates and maintains networks, system, transmissions, and voice documentation and reporting. The Chief Engineer provides support for administration of Cisco, Linux, Microsoft (MS), NetApp, Red Hat, Kubernetes, storage appliances and cloud-based solutions and Virtual based systems, including communications applications, IA server and client software systems, email, printing services, software license administration, file sharing and storage services, backup services, routers, switches, and other related systems or components. This position will work with network, systems, transport, and voice engineering on infrastructure technical support activities to correct issues with Information Systems (ISs) at multiple CENTCOM locations.

Qualifications:

The Chief Engineer must have the following minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience (in a combatant command) engineering IT solutions for NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and Mission Partner Environment/Coalition Environment (or other coalition network environments), 2 years’ relevant experience with the DoD, and 5 years’ relevant experience within the civilian sector.
• DoD 8570.01 M compliance for IAT Level III with one of the following: Virtual Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) or a higher-level Virtual Certification, or NetApp Certified Engineer (NCIE).
• Background must include 3+ years’ experience performing relevant networks, systems, transport, or voice engineering, implementation, and administration work within a combatant command.
• Technical experience with DoD and coalition networks to include NIPR, SIPR, SIPR/REL, MPE, Zero Trust principals and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) architecture.
• Proficiency and experience with engineering, executing, and overseeing the following technology areas, tasks, and systems:
  • Capacity planning
  • CENTOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
  • Cisco iOS
  • Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) and TACLANE Replacement Program (TRP)
  • Configuration management system updates
  • Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Storefront
  • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascade Style Sheet (CSS), jQuery
  • Cybersecurity (formerly Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA)) compliance
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
  • NetApp 7-Mode and cDOT
  • Network integration support
  • Network optimization (e.g. grooming)
  • New requirements analysis support
  • Program Of Action & Milestones (POA&M)
  • Regional Cyber Center Southwest Asia (RCC SWA) Change Management (ChM) process
  • Risk Management Framework (RMF)
  • SnapMirror, SnapRestore, SnapManager
  • Tech Control Facility (TCF) in a Box (TiB), Mini-TCF, Medium-TCF
  • Theater-level network modeling and simulation
  • Traffic engineering
  • USARCENT ChM process
  • Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Standardization
  • Virtual NSX
  • Virtual Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
  • Virtual Distributed Switches (vDS)
  • Virtual vSphere
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • Windows Server
  • Wireless
  • Zero Trust
  • VXLAN
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Kubernetes
• Must have a Top-Secret clearance due to sensitive nature of work; requires access to classified information and systems to support mission-critical operations.
• Experience in network, systems, transmissions, and voice architecture design to support Customer strategies and goals.
• Ability to provide technical assistance and advice to Operations Leadership on engineering solutions to enhance warfighter capabilities.
• Strong leadership skills to supervise all networks, systems, transmissions, and voice contract workforce.
• Effective communication skills to support stakeholder meetings, staff meetings, and engineering discussions.
• Bachelor’s Degree required – may substitute additional years of experience in lieu of advanced degree
  • Additional 4 years of experience with Associate’s Degree
  • Additional 8 years of experience with High School Diploma

Responsibilities

• Additional roles and responsibilities, include, but are not limited to:
• Identify and design engineering processes that improve ability to rapidly deploy and increase return on investments made throughout CENTCOM AOR.
• Design networks, systems, transmissions, and voice architecture that improve and align strategies and goals around higher headquarters.
• Design networks, systems, transmissions, and voice architecture that are modular in nature and enable Customer to reduce IT systems implementation costs and provide a means of incrementally scaling services as needed.
• Support stakeholder meetings, staff meetings, and engineering meetings for E&I.
• Provide Operations Leadership technical assistance and advice involving engineering architecture and solutions required to implement technical capabilities to warfighter.
• Maintain supervisory responsibilities over all networks, systems, transmissions, and voice contract workforce within Customer environment.
• Support creation, maintenance, and submission of Engineering Management Documentation.