Engineering Manager jobs in Virginia

Your Impact:

The mission of the Lone Wolf program is to support, operate, and maintain the Distributed Continuity Integrated Network – Top Secret Enterprise Services (DCIN-TS ES) which is a DoD-provided, TS/SCI, integrated voice, video, and data, global communications network that facilitates collaboration among senior leaders and key staff. The Lone Wolf program boasts a professional workforce comprised of specialists throughout the Information Technology lifecycle and who contribute to a positive work environment. 

The Jacobs Lone Wolf Team is Mission Focused, Customer Oriented, Process Guided, and Solutions Driven. Candidates interested in joining the team must be critical thinkers, have a strong work ethic, and be able to work independently or as a member of a team in a dynamic environment that supports a critical and rewarding mission. We value candidates who are detail-oriented while also being able to think and react quickly to emerging and unique problem sets. To be successful, you must be able to rapidly adapt and learn how to operate the front and back end of new products and processes. The Team is expected to grow and is looking for people who can apply disciplined processes and provide imaginative solutions that enable the adoption of innovation and emerging technologies that create opportunities for transformative change.

Responsibilities: 

• Support the customer in developing comprehensive requirement documents to support mission needs. 
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary engineering teams to oversee project management initiatives. 
• Analyze new and complex engineering project-related problems and create innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components.     
• Act as the single point of contact for engineering project requests, queries, and needs-related communications in support of the customer mission.  
• Provide application systems analysis and programming activities for a government site, facility, or multiple locations.    
• Prepare long and short-range plans for application selection, systems development, systems maintenance, and production activities as well as necessary support resources.     
• Draft briefings and talking points for meetings with interdisciplinary engineering teams, interagency participants, critical infrastructure protection, mission assurance, and defense support to civil authorities and other mission spaces.  
• Obtain photos, facility layouts, building floor plans, and applicable drawings associated with site locations.  
• Demonstrate technical knowledge in areas of enterprise network devices and services, major IT support systems – voice IP systems, video teleconferencing, MS Enterprise -AD/DFS/Print services, SAN storage subsystems, and computer hardware and software support.  
• Demonstrate technical familiarity with WAN/LAN topology, services, and terminology. 

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Here’s what you’ll need:

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or CSM certification.
• 10 years of relevant IT engineering project management experience.  
• B.S./B.A. in IT related field 
• Experience supporting Agile and Waterfall project management methods.
• Understanding of DoD acquisition regulations.
• Proven working knowledge of IT infrastructure. 
• Proven experience in recommending solutions that improve customer satisfaction and/or the mission of the customer 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  
• Expert use of MS Visio and Project and proficient use of MS Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.  
• Experience using Remedy or ServiceNow IT ticket systems. 
• Ability to travel (about 10-25%) primarily throughout the National Capital Region; Other travel locations may be required as well.
• May be required to work beyond typical work times to include on-call, recall, and/or standby.

Preferred:

• Practical understanding of Microsoft Enterprise services and solutions for on premise environments. 
• ITIL certification 
• Knowledge of ITSM