Senior DoD Hardware & Cyber Operations Lead

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company; Maryland; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Corporation company, is Seeking an Operations Lead to drive technical operational delivery for a strategic DoD program. You will personally perform engineering work on hardware, lead a distributed team, and engage with customers through demonstrations and program reviews.

You will guide lifecycle activities, manage cross-functional tasks, and advance defensive cyber operations research while mentoring engineers and supporting business development efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 12+ years of hands-on systems engineering experience across architecture, security, virtualization.
• 5+ years with defensive cyberspace TTPs and DoD/federal cyber organizations.
• Experience with systems architecture design, network protocols, and defense-in-depth.

Responsibilities

• Lead and personally perform engineering tasks across the program lifecycle, including systems architecture, integration, and problem-solving.
• Perform hands-on hardware work including cabling and configuring servers and networking gear in data centers, labs, and staging environments.
• Lead a distributed technical team across multiple locations, plan resources, and coordinate activities.
• Serve as senior technical interface to customers; deliver demonstrations and lead reviews.
• Coordinate activities across system administration, security, and service delivery; establish runbooks.

Skills

Systems engineering

Systems architecture

Defensive cyber operations

Team leadership

Customer engagement

Project management (Jira/Confluence)

Automation (Ansible, Python)

Virtualization (VMware, vCenter, K8s)

Networking hardware & data centers

Security tooling (Splunk/Elastic/Zeek)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

vCenter

Kubernetes

Ansible

Python

Splunk

Elastic

Zeek

Palo Alto

VMware

Job description

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Corporation company, is Seeking an Operations Lead to drive technical operational delivery for a strategic DoD program. You will personally perform engineering work on hardware, lead a distributed team, and engage with customers through demonstrations and program reviews.

You will guide lifecycle activities, manage cross-functional tasks, and advance defensive cyber operations research while mentoring engineers and supporting business development efforts.