Platform Services Technical Lead

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to guide a multidisciplinary team delivering NDOC DOMEX Platform capabilities in Bethesda, MD. The role combines technical leadership, product direction, and delivery across design, development, and operations.

The position supports ongoing modernization efforts with on-site work and occasional remote options, within an Agile SAFe framework and close collaboration with government stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering/CS/Systems Engineering or related field with 12+ years of experience or a Masters with 10+ years.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
• Hands-on Kubernetes administration in production environments.
• Experience with Elastic and Redis in production, including scaling and incident response.
• Platform security hardening, least-privilege access, encryption, and audit logging.
• Observability practices: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Linux-based hosting, containers, networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS, and storage.
• Infrastructure automation tools: CloudFormation, Helm, Salt, Ansible.
• Strong written and verbal communication for stakeholders and leadership.
• Previous DevOps/Platform lead role in an Agile SAFe environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction for design, deployment, and sustainment of NDOC mission apps.
• Translate mission requirements into executable development plans with stakeholders.
• Own and prioritize the team backlog and write clear user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Guide design decisions ensuring security, reliability, and alignment with architecture.
• Lead technical discussions and resolve complex engineering challenges across apps and infra.
• Balance security, defects, sustainment, and technical debt to maintain platform stability.
• Identify risks and dependencies; coordinate with leadership to resolve issues.
• Drive execution against PI objectives and sprint commitments with transparency.
• Lead or support SAFe activities: backlog refinement, planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Promote best practices: automated testing, CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and security.

Skills

Strong communication

Agile/SAFe experience

DevOps leadership

System architecture understanding

Education

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

Masters with 10+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Elastic

Redis

CloudFormation

Helm

Salt

Ansible

GitLab

Jenkins

Keycloak

Job description

Description

Leidos is looking for our next 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.

While the majority of work is performed on-site at our customer location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work.

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. You'll work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, government stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate mission priorities and product roadmap requirements into actionable technical solutions and delivered capabilities.

In this role, you'll guide technical design and implementation while managing product priorities, team execution, and delivery commitments. You'll help balance new capabilities, operational sustainment, technical debt, and evolving mission requirements to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with program objectives.

You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks:

• 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.

To be successful in this role you need the following (required qualifications):

• 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, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration, namespace/tenant management, resource quotas, limits, and capacity planning, role‑based access control (RBAC), and troubleshooting workload, networking, scheduling, performance, and availability issues.


• Demonstrated experience operating shared platform services such as Elastic and Redis in production, including version management, configuration, scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup/recovery, and incident response.


• Experience implementing and maintaining platform security and hardening practices, including least‑privilege access, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration baselines, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.


• Experience with observability practices and tooling, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, capacity monitoring, and root‑cause analysis.


• 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, such as Cloudformation, Helm, Salt, Ansible, or equivalent.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate platform risks, tradeoffs, capacity concerns, and investment needs for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.


• 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.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems


• Cloud infrastructure experience


• Experience with Appian or other low‑code software technologies


• Experience with any of the following technologies:




• PostgreSQL


• DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins


• Keycloak




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


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

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Pay Range

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

Pay and benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.