# TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to join a high-energy team deploying and maintaining common application-runtime capabilities in support of the DIA-NDOC (National Digital Exploitation and OSINT Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP).

This role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort, where you’ll contribute to mission-critical capabilities alongside a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented team.

As a Platform Services Technical Lead, you’ll provide technical leadership, product direction, and ongoing execution for a multidisciplinary application team responsible for deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical leadership and direction for the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of NDOC’s mission applications.

- Collaborate with government stakeholders, Systems Engineers, and the Release Train Engineer to translate mission requirements and product roadmap priorities into executable development plans.

- Own and prioritize the team backlog, decomposing features and requirements into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria.

- Guide technical design and implementation decisions, ensuring solutions align with system architecture, engineering standards, security requirements, and mission objectives.

- Lead technical discussions, evaluate solution alternatives, and help resolve complex engineering challenges across application, integration, and infrastructure components.

- Balance security requirements, defect resolution, sustainment, and technical debt to maintain platform stability and support long-term system evolution.

- Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and impediments, coordinating with engineering leadership and other teams to resolve issues affecting delivery.

- Drive execution against Program Increment (PI) objectives and sprint commitments, maintaining visibility into progress, priorities, and delivery risks.

- Lead or support Agile and SAFe activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews and demonstrations, retrospectives, and PI Planning.

- Promote engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, performance and health monitoring, application security, and continuous process improvement.

- Communicate technical progress, delivery status, risks, and recommended solutions to program management, government stakeholders, and engineering leadership.

- Contribute to technical documentation, design reviews, and planning activities supporting current and future capabilities.

Requirements:

- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.

- Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.

- Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting Kubernetes in a production environment.

- Demonstrated experience operating shared platform services such as Elastic and Redis in production.

- Experience implementing and maintaining platform security and hardening practices.

- Experience with observability practices and tooling.

- Strong knowledge of Linux-based application hosting, containers, container images, networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS/certificates, and storage concepts.

- Experience using infrastructure/platform automation and configuration management tools.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience serving as a Devops, Platform, or Shared Services Technical Lead, lead Systems Engineer, or similar role.

- Experience working in an Agile program, especially SAFe Agile.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems

- Cloud infrastructure experience

- Experience with Appian or other low-code software technologies

- Experience with PostgreSQL, DevOps practices and tools, Keycloak, etc.

- Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Java, Python, .NET

- Experience interacting with or administering MSSQL Server databases or other relational databases

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Elastic
- Redis
- platform security
- observability
- Linux
- automation tools
- Agile
- SAFe

### Nice to have
- AI
- cloud infrastructure
- Appian
- PostgreSQL
- DevOps
- Keycloak
- Java
- Python
- .NET
- MSSQL Server

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