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