security engineer

senior cybersecurity engineer

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cybersecurity engineer

By Light Professional IT Services

Since this is a contract outside of Phacil's headquarters, contracted work here on base often goes on with no delegation or attention from upper management. Any supervision or delegation is given by a government employee. A typical day as a graphic designer at Scott Air Force Base involves daily checks of our job logs to ensure that we are meeting all deadlines, responding to any customer inquiries, and then work on creating/editing jobs based on deadlines and time it will take to complete the job. We also manage the entire printing budget for all of our command.
Little to no involvement from management - because of my experience in this field, I need little to no supervision.
I work in a 2-man graphics department, one of us is a contractor and one of us is government. However, our job responsibilities are identical. The greatest thing about this job is the tools I have access to: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, a touch-screen Wacom tablet, a computer with a HUGE graphics card, and lots of face-time with senior members of our command. Another perk to this job is I get to see my work displayed in every building, conference room, and hallway that I walk in.
The hardest part of this job is working with the tight deadlines. We are often given a couple of days or less to create and print products in-house.

I work for Phacil last year and the environment was PERFECT and the people were very nice too. My issue was, there is no job advancement after my project was over. They said they would keep in touch with me and other employee's, after it was over and would reach out to us, so I could come back on the next project. They gave out business cards, with their contact information. I was given instructions to keep in contact with HR and higher management and I did. I worked my butt off for this company, arrived to work on time and not complain. Came to work when I was asked, including doing over time on the weekends. Never called out and I just feel no form of loyalty with them. When the next project started, all my calls, emails, texts were ignored. The pay was poor and they have the nerve to not keep their words. Compared to other contracts you can get paid more, if you find the right company. No LOYALTY to employee's or former employee's.

My question is, why give out you contact information if you don't want to be contacted? Why take a survey on employee's who would want to come back if you plan on hiring a whole new crew? Unfair is what it is. Then businesses wonder why people take on job offers when they find the next best thing. People left the job and took other ones, leaving us with more work to do. The staff that stayed behind work our tails off. With the little bit of pay, they should be loyal to those that are even willing to take the pay that they are offering for all the work they give you to do.

I worked at this company for 2+ years and I have never seen such a shoddy run place in my whole 20+ yr professional career.

Upper management is completly disconnected from those who actually make the company what it is.

Prepare to shoulder the weight of other departments who cannot meet the SLA's as stated in the contract.

Open door policy means that when you speak to management privately, the whole floor will know your business before the end of the day so nothing said stays behind closed doors..

If you bring an issue to HR you are rocking the boat and will be singled out for termination.

Upper management hires and puts people in charge who have no IT skills nor any type of management ability/experience.

There is no bid for shifts/hours, whatever you get is what your stuck with.

Overall, I liked the fact that I was assisting others who actually do the hard work of protecting this country but management/team leads make the job 100% more difficult than it needs to be.

Came in hired by one person who left maybe 3 months later and the company fell apart.

Management does not care to train new hires even though they had new hires sitting for 3 months with basically no work, acts surprised when things get assembled out of spec and blames the employees they didn't have trained for it.

Lots of empty space inside the facility, never saw more than 30 or so people on the production floor and maybe 15 of them ever actually working.

The interim manager for the production team is a terrible example of what happens when a retired soldier leaves the military and has to be a civilian. He's stuck in his ways and can't interact with the others like normal people.

Middle and upper management at the facility claim that things are going well and the company is making BILLIONS off the contracts they bid on but can't make deadlines because they oversold their capabilities

Steer clear of this company if you can.

Raydon is a place that allows you to surround yourself with amazing talented people.  People who care not only for each other, but to our mission.

Along with the day to day, the leadership really does care about the company success and the employees that work for them.  

Daily routines follow the modern Agile Scrum rituals, Daily Standup, Iteration Planning Meetings, even an all employee meeting once a month to keep the company up today with business opportunities and current affairs.  

At the end of the day, we are a creative and light hearted group.  At any employer you spend at least 40 hours in a building together, so it's important to enjoy the people that do work with you.  It makes coming into work easier and does create more synergies.

When they took over the contract at the agency, they came in and re-classified EVERYONE as Entry level and CUT everyone's pay. This caused high turnover rate, and loss of our experienced team, which led to daily resources, needed to perform the job, often being UNAVAILABLE. The tech's suffered and the customers suffered...all across the agency. This company Broke This,  once smoothly run contract. This STINGY, POORLY RUN Caball-esq company has little regard for its employees, as clearly seen in its policies. I have worked over 40 years and have NEVER seen a company that comes though and breaks the flow of everything, like This company. This company seems Deep State-ish, in there policies and the way they treat the people who DO the work. Very  poor!

I had a great time as a Site Manager - I had several bosses.  I worked for By Light Professional IT - a vet owned company in Virginia - who was in a contract relationship with Hewlett Packard.  HP is in a nationwide project for all of the VA's - they are implementing the equipment and applications necessary for RTLS. 

RTLS is Remote Tracking Location System - it finds equipment as it moves through the hospital, will also at some point track patients and employees.

My job description was "keep everyone associated with this project happy."  

I enjoyed it very much - a great group of people.  And I enjoyed taking care of several different aspects of the project.  Taking care of customers, internal and external, is my best asset, I believe.

Working for the contract company (DHS - ICE) was fantastic, but working for the actual company was a joke. They demoted those that were good at what they did, brought in former military members into senior management and if you weren't military, you weren't moving up in the company. The managers would lie to your face and talk behind your back. I learned so much while working on this contract, if I didn't work on this contract, I wouldn't be where I am today and Phacil had nothing to do with that, other than giving me a paycheck. 

If you do get promoted, they only try to give you $.50 cent raises. You have to fight for $5K.

I loved working here!   The only draw back is that there is not enough training.  It was one of those jobs that you did not find out that you had done something wrong until you did it.  Had the person been given the training or back up, it,  would not have been done.  
Otherwise this place was great! Co-workers great,  I just really cannot complain at all.  I am sad that I no longer work there.

What HR says goes?  
Must be nice to have company time to do all those classes  that dont have anything to do with what the company does.  
Managers dont care about the employees.
Managers and HR , Travel rep not avlaiable after hours but employees are expected to work as long as it takes to get the job done, including holidays...
Must be nice to get weekends off at home and then nag about how long the work is taking.

Raises take a long time. 
Pay is below the average in the field.
Rules by fear of losing job.
Do as management says not as they do. (Know what PII is.  SSNs are PII and not just included as PII....)


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