Information Technology Analyst Intern

Job Description

About Company:

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is a leading career site focused on supporting job seekers at every stage of their career. This opportunity is with the Warfare Systems (WS) business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems focuses on cyber and mission IT, electronic warfare, and C5ISR systems. HII supports intelligence and cyber operations communities and specializes in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, and software/hardware development. HII’s Mission Technologies division consists of over 7,000 professionals worldwide providing expertise and advanced technologies to mission partners globally.

Job Description:

This is an UNPAID Internship through the DoD SkillBridge Program, specifically designed for transitioning active-duty US military personnel. This program allows active-duty military members within their final 180 days of service to gain real-world work experience. The internship program focuses on placing transitioning military personnel into internships that require KSAs, Education & Military Training similar to their current or previous military jobs; positions that could easily transition over to a full-time regular and permanent job with HII.

Key Details:

• Location: Dayton, OH
• Requisition Number: 16988
• Travel: 0 – 10%
• Employment Type: Temporary Worker
• Salary Range: $0.00 – $0.00 (UNPAID)
• Security Clearance: TS/SCI
• Level of Experience: Intern

Internship Focus:

The SkillBridge intern will train as an Information Technology Analyst within HII-Mission Technologies. The intern will report to a designated HII Supervisor. The goal is to refine and enhance current Information Technology Analyst fundamentals and principles. The intern will be assigned special projects as needed.

Desired End State (3-4 month target):

• Establish accounts, conduct system maintenance, and perform system recovery.
• Develop a good understanding of implementing maintenance and upgrade procedures to minimize disruption of normal business functions. This includes: planning, design, acquisition, installation and set-up, testing, accreditation, fielding, support, and disposition of IT equipment, components, and software.
• Mission Technologies will benefit from the military background of the SkillBridge intern.

Training Plan (Overview):

The internship is structured in three phases:

• Phase 1 – Basics (Weeks 1-5): Introductions, familiarization with HII and customer teams, and an introduction to IT support including planning, design, acquisition, installation and set-up, testing, accreditation, fielding, support, and disposition of IT equipment, components, and software. Also includes intro planning, scheduling, coordinating, installing, updating, and accomplishing day-today administration for software and hardware on multiple classified networks and managing IT network equipment to include switches, routers, and both basic and advanced configurations of firewalls.
• Phase 2 – Configuration & Optimization of Networks (Weeks 6-13): Configuration and troubleshooting of Video Teleconferencing and Voice over IP telephone systems, support analysis and testing to ensure equipment and software additions and upgrades compatible with existing infrastructure, optimize the function and performance of network hardware and software to ensure IT system availability, integrity, efficiency, and reliability, and troubleshoot, identify network problems and develop, coordinate, and implement corrective actions.
• Phase 3 – Network Troubleshooting & Maintenance and Security Administration (Weeks 14-20): Support tracking of network equipment and software technology obsolescence and help analyze and prepare trades for future maintenance and replacement in support of IT budget planning, providing help desk support, supporting IT system back-up, data restoration, and disaster recovery, supporting basic maintenance for IT related equipment, preparation of required network cyber (IA) documentation, developing SOPs, and implementing audits, threat and vulnerability assessments, and applying security-related software tools to manage and control classified information systems, and resolving information systems security incidents.

Additional Goals:

• Project Management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Active-Duty Military ONLY within final 180 days of active-duty service. May apply up to 12 months prior to separation or retirement from active-duty military service.
• Must have TS/SCI security clearance.
• Must have Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, and a minimum of five (5) years’ experience maintaining IT systems or a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience maintaining IT systems.
• DoD 8570 Information Assurance Management Level II certification, or equivalent, and 4 years of classified information systems experience working on DoD ACAT I, ACAT II, or ACAT.