Platform/Network/Teleservices Engineering Lead

About the role

Job Description

The Platform/Network/Teleservices Engineering Lead serves as the senior technical leader responsible for overseeing engineering support across platform, network, cloud, and teleservices environments within a complex DoD enterprise. This role provides day-to-day leadership of engineering teams, ensures compliance with DoD, Defense Cyber Defense Command (DCDC), U.S. Cyber Command, DISA, and Zero Trust cybersecurity requirements, leading major technical initiatives, and delivering engineering support across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS environments.

The Lead acts as a senior technical authority, managing engineering operations, guiding solution design, supporting change control processes, and ensuring high-quality delivery of all engineering services.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities - Leadership & Project Management

- Lead and mentor platform, network, cloud, and teleservices engineering teams

- Oversee engineering tasks across multiple environments and enclaves

- Serve as liaison between technical teams, program leadership, and government stakeholders

- Plan, track, and report on engineering project stages, risks, and impacts

- Ensure teams produce high-quality documentation, including design documents, troubleshooting guides, system configurations, and lessons learned

- Platform /Network /Teleservices Engineering

- Provide engineering support for NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS

- Execute change control processes; support Critical Design Reviews (CDR)

- Design, test, validate, and deploy engineering changes; ensure post-deployment monitoring

- Perform:

- System monitoring & performance tuning

- Network configuration engineering

- Zero Trust Network Architecture implementation support

- IPv6 migration & processing

- Technology assessments & recommendations

- Maintain Information Systems Contingency Plans (ISCP)

- Deliver engineering support in:

- Infrastructure services

- Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V)

- Monitoring & lifecycle management

- Cloud technologies (PaaS, SaaS, containerization)

- Provide engineering support for key enterprise technologies:

- SQL, MECM, SCOM

- Directory Services

- Microsoft/Linux platforms

- Conduct studies, cost/benefit analysis, and alternatives analysis for modernization initiatives

- Support enterprise fax and unified communication environments

- Deliver engineering support in:

- Infrastructure services

- Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V)

- Monitoring & lifecycle management

- Cloud technologies (PaaS, SaaS, containerization)

- Provide engineering support for key enterprise technologies: