Program Task Lead

Program Task Lead

Job Locations

US-MD-Linthicum

Requisition ID

2025-161157

Position Category

Project Management

Clearance

Top Secret/SCI

Responsibilities

Task Lead will serve as a project lead to provide oversight to a team responsible for building, operating, securing, defending, and extending enterprise-scale data strategies, architectures, and applications. The Task Lead will serve as the senior contractor personnel responsible for the IT services and providing direction and guidance to the subordinate teams consisting of server, network, database, service, and other related teams that are responsible for 12 separate networks and telecommunications systems of all classification levels serving more than 400 users. The Task Lead shall use IT industry best practices to deliver various IT services. The Task Lead be responsible for the quality and efficiency of the contractor's performance and will assist the Government with all financial and business processes of the task, excluding inherently governmental functions.

The Task Lead will manage approximately 50 contractors consisting of network engineers, Tier 1 support, software developers, cloud architects, knowledge management professionals, project managers and data scientists.

As the Task Lead, the candidate will work with team leads to:

• Provide functional knowledge of operational and support processes for their service area.
• Clarify/resolve process-related activities for technical team.
• Understand existing and proposed delivery process, procedures, and tools by function.
• Monitor and report progress against plans through final acceptance and signoff.
• Manage, coordinate, and resolve project issues, decisions, and risks.
• Personnel / Performance Management: Responsibilities include interviewing, selection and hiring; training new and existing employees; planning, assigning and directing work; addressing employee performance and corrective action plans; employee motivation and rewards.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience, may have supervisory or management experience.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Active CISSP certification (or equivalent IAM Level III cert).
• Experience leading and supervising teams in a Government networking and infrastructure environment (classified and unclassified).
• Experience leading and supervising the building, operating, securing, defending, and extending Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) systems, including wireless components, firewalls, routing and switching, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPV6), VPN, cloud computing, virtualized servers, storage arrays, and other IT/data systems. Experience with unified communications, including leading and supervising the design, installation, maintenance, and administration of VTC system for multi-level classification environments (Unclassified, Secret, and TS/SCI).
• Experience in the last three years leading and supervising teams running a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing modern approaches including containerization, micro-segmentation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience in the last five years leading and supervising teams planning and executing migration of legacy systems into multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Experience in the last seven years leading and supervising personnel developing and implementing "data lakes" and other aspects of modern data strategies.
• Demonstrated familiarity with supervised/unsupervised machine learning, and familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to support fielding of artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities for government-directed use-cases.

Desired Skills:

• PMP certification.
• Cloud certifications, such as, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate, MS Certified Azure Fundamentals, MS Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).
• ITIL Foundations level certification.
• Experience leading and supervising teams performing IT (Cyberspace), Cybersecurity, Software engineering, and/or Data/AI.
• Experience briefing a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Office (CI)SO on agency-wide planned, recommended, and directed actions to enable unity of effort and operational effectiveness.
• Experience overseeing personnel receiving, interpreting, planning, briefing, executing, and reporting on orders issued by the Commander of USCYBERCOM or one of their subordinate Commanders, the National Manager for National Security Systems, and/or other authorized Commander with Command authority.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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