Principal Cyber Engineer - hybrid
Level D&I Solutions
Columbus, OH, USA
Posted on Feb 5, 2025
Direct hire opportunity for a Principal Cyber Engineer, Portfolio Growth to play a crucial role in growing and advancing the Cyber Business Line. The position location is at our Chantilly, VA office with flexibility to work from our Columbus, OH main offices. Periodic travel to Columbus, OH, especially during the proposals, may be necessary. This position reports to the Cyber Solutions Division Manager. This position requires strong leadership and coordination skills to manage project teams in a matrixed organization.
About the role:
Reference: 1015991
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- Must work on site 3 days, Monday - Wednesday but there is flexibility. Thursday and Friday are work from home days. A minimum of 25% travel. It could be up to 60% at times depending on demand.
About the role:
- This person will be mentoring/coaching junior team members and could move up in management roles in no time.
- The top 3 skills are a must have 1) reverse engineer, vulnerability research 2) Capture 3) Customer experience.
- What is needed specifically for the 3 required skills:
- Reverse engineer, vulnerability research: analyze software or hardware by deconstructing its code or functionality to discover potential security weaknesses that attackers could exploit.
- Capture: must be able to develop a cyber security capture proposal for customers. That is the art of identifying the cybersecurity opportunity, thoroughly analyzing the clients needs and competitive landscape, developing a tailored solution with a strong value proposition, and crafting a comprehensive proposal that clearly outlines your proposed cybersecurity strategy, implementation plan, cost and timeline to win the contract.
- Customer experience: being able to work directly with technical and non-technical customers and having good customer rapport and communication skills.
Responsibilities
You will play a crucial role in bridging technical solutions with business needs. You will be responsible for capturing and executing contracts across federal and commercial markets.
Program Management
Capture and Business Development
Mentoring and Leadership
Program Management
- Define project/program requirements, identifying all elements of cost, schedule, and technical performance.
- Assess the impact of scope, schedule, and budget change requests on the task and take requisite action.
- Provide input on the required skill set mix necessary to execute major programs.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to internal management and external customers, providing reviews and updates on technical aspects, cost, and schedule.
- Actively manage risk using risk management fundamentals and terminology.
- Monitor the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis by managers to make responsible decisions about the performance of subcontractors, partners, and others.
- Assess the program impacts of scope, schedule, and budget change requests and ensure that the requisite action is taken.
- Establish program performance metrics that ensure control of program execution and adherence to the strategic business plan.
- Proactively communicate with customers to ensure they are an integral part of the project for clarification of requirements and regular assessment of implementation progress.
- Build client relationships to sustain and expand business opportunities; strategically identify high growth/value opportunities.
- Manage or coordinate third-party activities, both external and internal.
Capture and Business Development
- Demonstrated understanding of capture processes to win new business
- Translating the technical approach into the program’s schedule and budget.
- Ensure timely development and delivery of compliant, responsive, innovative, and integrated technical solutions and management approaches that are competitive, cost-effective, and vetted with the customer prior to RFP release.
- Establishing review procedures to ensure that proposed technical work can be accomplished as described within proposed cost.
- Coordinating the selection of proposal team member organizations (strategic partners, sub-contractors, universities, divisions, etc.) and the efforts of the proposal team.
Mentoring and Leadership
- Serves as an influential coach/mentor to technical and professional staff alike
- Contributes input to the business unit strategic planning process
- Prepares and presents presentations to internal and customer senior leadership to provide reviews and updates on technical aspects, cost, and schedule.
- Ensures that programs and projects conduct safety assessments. Establishes guidelines for ensuring that adequate workplace safety measures that increase staff safety and foster a healthy work environment
- Drive development of technical capabilities, including identifying new areas to develop, areas to shape out of, and help see client's strengths and weaknesses
- Participate in investment discussion for research, capital, and training
- Develop and maintain relationships with key technical leaders to foster project collaboration opportunities, technical skillset development, and technical quality
Key Qualifications:
- Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related field to Cyber; or an equivalent combination of education and or experience in a related field
- At least 12 years of experience demonstrating progressive responsibility in business development, program management or technical management
- Technical Execution
- Track record of leading the technical design and execution of reverse engineering, vulnerability research, or other CNO related projects
- Seasoned experience in the full lifecycle of projects (requirements, design, research/engineering, test, documentation, and maintenance)
- Ability to speak to customers at varying levels of technical knowledge to relate value propositions to their mission
- Capture and Proposals
- Demonstrated ability to grow the scope of programs through on-contract growth
- Multiple examples of leading the entire technical solutioning and written volume for competitive proposals
- Administrative
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- Active SECRET clearance with willingness to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience acting as a dual-hatted senior engineer and program manager for Cyber projects
- Material participation in multi-year capture efforts
- Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility.
Reference: 1015991
Worried that you don’t meet every single requirement listed in the job ad? Studies have shown that individuals from marginalized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Level is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and representative workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but worried that you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyways. We’d love to get to know you.