Platform Services Tech Lead — Mission-Critical Apps

Base-2 Solutions, LLC; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions, LLC is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to join a high-energy team in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities for the DOMEX Platform, collaborating with government stakeholders, engineers, and leadership.

You'll guide design and execution, manage priorities, and promote best practices in CI/CD, IaC, and security while ensuring scalable, secure solutions aligned with program objectives.

Qualifications

• Strong Kubernetes production experience including lifecycle management and RBAC.
• Experience operating Elastic and Redis in production.
• Experience implementing platform security and hardening practices.
• Observability practices and tooling: metrics/logs/traces/dashboards.
• Knowledge of Linux-based hosting, containers, networking, DNS, TLS and storage.
• Infrastructure automation/configuration tools such as CloudFormation/Helm/Salt/Ansible.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience in SAFe Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction for the design, integration, deployment and sustainment of NDOC mission applications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to translate mission requirements into executable development plans.
• Own and prioritize the team backlog with well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Guide design and implementation while balancing security, performance, and mission objectives.
• Lead technical discussions and resolve complex engineering challenges across app, integration, and infrastructure.
• Drive PI objectives and sprint commitments with visibility into progress and risks.
• Promote engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and security.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile / SAFe

Communication skills

Requirements translation

Backlog management

Security awareness

Education

BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field

Masters with 10+ years of prior relevant experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Elastic

Redis

CloudFormation

Helm

Salt

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Base-2 Solutions, LLC is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to join a high-energy team in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities for the DOMEX Platform, collaborating with government stakeholders, engineers, and leadership.

You'll guide design and execution, manage priorities, and promote best practices in CI/CD, IaC, and security while ensuring scalable, secure solutions aligned with program objectives.