Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead Opportunity At Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam

Join SOSi at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam in Honolulu, where innovation meets impact! As an Engineering Lead, you'll be at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge IT solutions that empower over 5,000 customers across the Pacific theater. Our team tackles complex technical challenges that drive critical Command and Control (C2) strategies, ensuring mission success in time-sensitive environments. If you're ready to lead with purpose, solve high-stakes problems, and enjoy the beauty of Hawaii while making a global difference—this is your opportunity.

Essential Job Duties

• Provide leadership and guidance to the IT Engineering Team
• Ensure projects/initiatives/tasks are properly scoped, planned, prioritized, resourced, executed, and documented
• Oversee the transition of engineering efforts from Design and Implementation to Sustainment and Operation
• Function as the Operations Person-In-Charge when both the Operations Manager and the Operations Deputy are unavailable or away
• Coordinate internal and external resources required for IT engineering projects, initiatives, and tasks
• Manage Engineering Team, tasks, and responsibilities
• Provide Tier-4 & 5 support to Enterprise Services
• Act as a point of incident escalation and coverage
• Manage proper communication, correction, and response internal to the Engineering Team and Cross-Organizational with other Teams and Branches
• Evaluate new services, technologies, software, tools, and devices that may improve Enterprise capabilities for automation and orchestration
• Perform supervisory and administrative oversight of managed personnel
• Provide recruiting, onboarding, direction/guidance, training, and assessment of Engineers, and mentorship for administrators and technicians where applicable
• Regularly collect and summarize pertinent IT Engineering accomplishments, issues, and concerns
• Participate in and provide feedback to IT-relevant special projects, as required

Minimum Requirements

• Active in-scope TOP SECRET clearance with SCI eligibility
• Bachelors degree in IT Discipline or 10+ years of experience in Enterprise IT Engineering and Operations involving complex classified DoD environments and mandatory security controls
• DoD 8570 IAT-III compliant (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, or GCIH)
• Relevant IT Certification (e.g., Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Forcepoint, HP, HPE, Microsoft, Nutanix, Palo Alto, VMware)
• Advanced knowledge in delivery and support to classified VDI/virtual environment platforms
• Advanced knowledge in IT security mechanics
• Experienced with implementing/supporting network-related services
• Extended knowledge of modern operating systems
• Prior experience with NSA CSfC requirements
• Prior experience with Cross Domain Solutions and/or DISA Trusted Network Environment
• Prior supervisory experience
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing
• Ability to effectively lead a team within a distributed organizational environment
• Customer-service oriented with a willingness to participate and assist
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in IT solutions implementation, administration, troubleshooting, and support
• Ability to support 24/7 operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in IT Discipline, or similar
• Additional IT certifications in relevant technology platform
• Advanced understanding and delivery on storage components
• Familiarity with installation and support to Microsoft back-end services
• Extended knowledge of networking
• Prior experience using Cisco, Brocade, HPE/Aruba and Palo Alto network solutions
• Well-versed in Department of Defense protocols
• Familiarity with C2 applications and program support
• Prior Help Desk/software experience

Work Environment

• Normal office environment
• Fast paced, deadline-oriented environment
• May require periods of non-traditional working hours including consecutive nights or weekends

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason. SOSi is an equal employment opportunity employer and affirmative action employer. All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or protected veteran status. SOSi takes affirmative action in support of its policy to advance diversity and inclusion of individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.