Senior Software/Platform Engineer - Grant-Funded (PT)

This is a grant-funded position. Grant-funded positions expire either at the end of the stated term or whenever funding for the position ceases. Mohawk Valley Community College provides accessible, high-quality educational opportunities to meet the diverse needs of our students. We are the community’s college, committed to student success through partnerships, transfer and career pathways, and personal enrichment. The College is looking for exceptional colleagues to join the MVCC community. We are currently seeking a Senior Software/Platform Engineer within our National Cybersecurity Competition initiatives. The Senior Software/Platform Engineer leads the design, architecture, implementation, and deployment of competition platforms, badging / competency tracking infrastructure, and cybersecurity exercises. Key responsibilities for this position include: Designs and implements training or competition scenarios intended to evidence competency of workforce readiness; Provides technical leadership by guiding software architecture, design decisions, and development best practices across projects; Serves as Lead Technical Authority with deep expertise in core infrastructure domains (Windows/Unix/Linux, Network Devices, SIEM/SOAR) to guide system integration decisions; Architects, designs, and implements software solutions to be scaled to run multiple instances concurrently on affordable computing platforms. Leverage containerization, virtualization and virtual networking to achieve this scalability; Troubleshoots complex technical issues, identify root causes, and implement effective, long-term solutions to improve system reliability and performance; Creates realistic mock vulnerabilities within virtual systems, corresponding exploits, and corresponding patches to defend against those exploits; Creates a competency tracking infrastructure, including granular tracking of student behaviors within a contested cybersecurity environment and mapping of behaviors to student learning outcomes. Integrate infrastructure smoothly into existing cybersecurity competitions; Creates and implements monitoring and management tools within the virtual infrastructure; Produces tutorials, walk-throughs, and guides for faculty and staff participants; Produces technical documentation for internal and external audiences to train new / junior project staff and support technical integration with external competition partners; Interacts with technical and non-technical stakeholders including students, faculty, and industry representatives to gather user feedback and implement platform refinements based on feedback; Tests, administers, and supports virtual platform hardware and network connectivity for hundreds to thousands of simultaneous student users; Completes other duties as assigned by the AVP, Academic Affairs within the NSA/CAE National competition project. Work Schedule: Will be based on the needs of the department and the availability of the applicant. Hours per week: up to 29