Senior. Platform Engineer. COTS Manager
About The Position
The Senior Platform Engineering COTS Manager is responsible for documenting, coordinating, and status accounting the program’s Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) baseline. This position requires close attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment. It also requires prioritizing tasks consistent with program priorities. The ideal candidate possesses attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills; and has experience with the MS Office product suite. To include windows and Linux based environments. The COTS Manager coordinates closely with the Hardware and Infrastructure, Software and Systems Engineers, Configuration Manager, Material Program Manager, and Supply Chain Management to ensure all procured COTS are properly documented.
Requirements
- BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Physics and a minimum 5 years of related work experience
- Experience working in a technical environment interfacing with systems, software, or hardware engineering disciplines, with an understanding of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) products
- Experience communicating technical and project information to senior program management
- Experience defining, analyzing and reporting metrics utilizing Metrics Tools
- Active and Current TS/SCI / CI Poly security clearance is required Day 1.
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Nice To Haves
- Experience with databases, including schema definition and manipulation
- Experience defining, analyzing and reporting metrics
- Experience working independently and prioritizing tasks with full accountability.
- Excellent communication skills with peers and leaders concerning process, business, program and personnel topics.
- Experience working independently and prioritizing tasks with full accountability.
- Willingness to actively participate with team members concerning process and business activities.
- Familiar with office automation and engineering tools: MS Office, relational databases such as Oracle or similar.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical coordination of COTS for the program
- Manage the development of the Program COTS architecture and related documentation
- Develop an engineering repository in both a Windows and Linux based systems
- Coordinate with Configuration Management to ensure all COTS configuration-controlled items are properly identified, version controlled and recorded in a configuration status accounting system
- Manage the evaluation of COTS updates
- Manage the resolution of COTS vendor issues
- Coordinate with Supply Chain Management (SCM) and the Material Program Manager when applicable to resolve vendor issues
- Manage and coordinate the maintenance support for each COTS product
- Collect Infrastructure status needs for COTS tracking, maintenance, license agreements, and data rights
- Present metrics collection and reporting of COTS and track the program’s process against plan utilizing metrics-based tools
- Conduct periodic COTS audits as aligned with IMS / System deliveries to compare and validate the recorded COTS baseline with the actual physical baseline
- Track the closure of all audit findings/Action Items Related to COTS Management and produce reports to Infrastructure and CM management
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- flexible work schedules
- employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- parental leave
- paid time off
- holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
