Program Integrator

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking Program Integrator with who will be responsible for providing mission-critical training. This effort focuses on managing the suite of technologies supporting these training courses. Subject matter expertise managing the hardware, software, networks and systems underpinning the suite’s operations, maintenance, development, upgrades, and security, is expected. Priorities and tasking will be managed by the task manager with input from the candidate.

Responsibilities: 

• Work closely with Sponsor staff and contractor personnel, as well as external vendors and stakeholders.
• Be involved in the development of technical equipment specifications.
• Work with external vendors to develop vendor quotations.
• Strategically oversee support software and hardware engineering and development efforts to maintain current and deliver new capabilities to enhance program priorities.
• Strategically oversee and identify issues or dependencies to staff and work to resolve them as prioritized by the task manager with input from leadership.
• Support all elements of the systems, comprised of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products and software, along with several customized tools and applications.
• Harmonize all hardware, software, tools, applications, and elements of Sponsor’s systems, maximizing interoperability and efficiency.
• Provide a modern and stable platform which meets security requirements and enables users to communicate and collaborate securely.
• Shall work with the task manager to recommend relevant new technologies and present those findings, along with best practices, to the task manager and leadership in an effort to ensure the system remains at the forefront of stability, security, and efficiency.
• Support enhancement efforts and develop new capabilities for Sponsor’s use to meet mission needs.
• Manage beacon and communications servers, applications, and equipment, ensuring maximum reliability of tracking solutions for training course attendees.
• Create, change, add, remove, and maintain user accounts, via script and coding, of the beacon and communication servers, applications and equipment.
• Configure, set up, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot LAN equipment such as, but not limited to, firewalls, switches, and routers.
• Maintain maximum system uptime and stability.
• Ensure the secure design and implementation of program systems, protecting against unauthorized access, usage denial, theft, and insider threats.
• Maximize the security of the system by protecting Sponsor data and ensuring security best practices, including those defined by the Sponsor, are followed.
• Install, patch and update software to monitor and maintain system capabilities, uptime and stability.
• Support Sponsor’s Assessment & Authorization (A&A) accreditation requirements.
• Manage information system security, policy, accreditation, and regulatory compliance.
• Play a crucial role in integrating information assurance into acquisition and implementation processes.

Required Qualifications: 

• Active TS/SCI with Poly
• 10 years of experience and a bachelors degree.
• Demonstrated experience bringing programmatic discipline to the management of a complex systems.

• Demonstrated experience administering communications solutions.
• Demonstrated experience administering beaconing solutions
• Demonstrated experience managing cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience integrating systems and managing technical programs.
• Demonstrated experience with system assessment and authorization (A&A) processes.
• Demonstrated experience handling sensitive data, exercising discretion and sound judgment, and achieving mission outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience customizing, deploying and maintaining Android cellular telephones.
• Demonstrated experience using ATAK (Android Team Awareness Kit) beaconing and tracking hardware, software, scripts, and code.
• Demonstrated experience managing telephones, laptops, and tablet devices, all of which require configuration and maintenance while maximizing uptime and communications reliability.
• Demonstrated experience configuring, setting up, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting and running firewalls, switches, routers, or other WAN and LAN systems or equipment.
• Demonstrated experience using encryption hardware and software and virtual private network (VPN) applications.
• Demonstrated experience gathering and vetting new technical requirements.
• Demonstrated experience identifying requirements and constraints pertaining to technical capabilities and solutions in support of training and educational exercises.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing and executing regulatory and data retention policies and modifying such policies with input and direction from key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience cross-skilling and backfilling for teammates.

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s Assessment and Authorization (A&A) processes.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills with all levels of Sponsor personnel.
• Demonstrated experience using communication tools including push-to-talk technology.
• Demonstrated experience using map imagery applications.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Microsoft cloud-based tools including Office 365, Azure, Entra, and Teams.