Deployment Lead, Strategic Defense
$166,000–$220,000 year
On-siteWashington, United States
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end readiness and the day-to-day operating picture for a portfolio of deployment sites by serving as the accountable program liaison for assigned locations. Conduct site surveys and readiness reviews to translate infrastructure constraints into action plans, then coordinate deployments, ground tests, live-fire exercises, and sustainment activities including agendas, staffing, and logistics. Maintain authoritative site profiles covering access procedures, technical configurations, and operational history while building integrated schedules and risk registers across concurrent events. Orchestrate engineering support for node flashing, installation, and hardware replacement, manage procurement and asset accountability, and develop reusable playbooks for troubleshooting and emergency access. Provide concise status and readiness reporting through deployment calendars and six-month look-aheads, own user-feedback intake to drive prioritized actions, and lead through influence with government stakeholders and internal teams. Requires 5+ years in technical program management, active U.S. Secret clearance, and 30–50% travel.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management, field operations, deployment operations, systems integration, or a comparable role delivering complex hardware and software capabilities
- Demonstrated ownership of multi-site or multi-event execution involving customers, engineering teams, logistics, access constraints, and time-critical dependencies
- Working knowledge of integrated hardware, software, networking, and data-center or field-site infrastructure; able to understand technical architecture and ask the questions that reveal execution risk
- Experience building executable plans, schedules, readiness criteria, risk registers, decision logs, and clear status reporting in an ambiguous environment
- Ability to build trust with government customers and end users, lead through influence, and resolve issues without waiting for perfect information
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief technical, operational, and executive audiences
- Ability to travel 30–50%, work non-standard hours during major events, and operate on site in classified or controlled environments
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance and is eligible to obtain a Top Secret clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Experience deploying distributed command-and-control, edge-compute, sensor, communications, or other mission systems in DoD environments
- Experience planning site surveys for data-center or integration-lab environments, including rack, power, cooling, network, and physical-security requirements
- Experience supporting developmental test, operational test, range activities, ground test, or live-fire exercises
- Familiarity with asset management, serialization, barcode-based inventory, hardware configuration records, procurement, and reverse logistics
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or equivalent tools for execution and knowledge management
- Working knowledge of RMF, classified handling, controlled data movement, courier procedures, or secure shipping requirements
- PMP, CAPM, or comparable program-management certification
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