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Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.\nPosition Overview\nBy Light is supporting the Managed Information Technology Service (MITS) Enterprise Support Managed Services effort for the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).\nThe successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.\nThis position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. 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Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)\nParticipating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives\nRecommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives\nRequired Experience/Qualifications\nBachelor's degree and ten (10) years or more experience\nIAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH)\nComputing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.\nProven track record of work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions\nProficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.\nExpertise in next generation firewall (Palo Alto) deployment, configuration and management\nIn-depth understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs\nUnderstanding of layer three routing protocols, emphahisis on BGP.\nExperience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure\nAbility to utilize a variety of tools like Git, Jenkins, Groovy, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.).\nGeneral knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM\nExposure to AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud\nExperience with Route 53 deployment and management within AWS GovCloud environment\nExperience with Zero trust architectures\nAdministration of multiple networking devices, i.e. firewalls, F5 with networking configuration management tools such as Panorama, Big IQ, etc..\nExperience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members\nProactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies\nPreferred Experience/Qualifications\nMaster's degree\n15 or more years of experience\nAWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification\nITIL V4 Foundations Certification\nExperience with F5 Big-IP devices specificially the LTM and ASM modules\nExperience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway\nExperience with Palo Alto FWs specifically managing security policy, NAT policy, and BGP routing.\nExperience with Juniper and Cisco virtual cloud routers\nExperience with BGP routing in a DoD environment.\nFamiliarty with AWS Site-to-Site Connections\nExperience with Azure commercial cloud services.\nKnowledge of Route53 DNS\nSpecial Requirements/Security Clearance\nDoD Secret clearance; 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