Senior Platform Reliability & DevSecOps Lead

RPMGlobal; Bethesda, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions invites a Platform Operations Manager to lead the design, development, and deployment of a modern, containerized stack supporting the D3P modernization program for OSINT across the Defense Enterprise.

You will ensure uptime, performance, and capacity for a large-scale big data platform, mentor a team of system administrators, and collaborate with engineers on architecture, security, and DevSecOps practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience; 13+ years with a Master's; degree substitution allowed.
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II+ certification required.
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments.
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS) and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak.
• Proven cross-functional coordination and leadership.
• Team leadership and line management experience.
• Strong communication under incident pressure.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large-scale big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and technologies such as Java, Python, React, and low-code tools like Appian.
• Leverage monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Lead triage, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Define and track reliability metrics including SLIs and SLOs.
• Lead a team of system administrators supporting a help desk during core hours; set technical standards and mentor staff.
• Partner with systems engineers to design solutions, contribute to documentation, and support architectural alignment.
• Participate in SAFe Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross-team coordination.

Skills

DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II+

Active Top Secret/SCI

Kubernetes

GitLab pipelines

Linux

Cloud services (AWS)

SAFe Agile familiarity

Team leadership

Incident response

Education

BS in Engineering / CS / Systems Engineering / related field

Master's degree +13+ years experience

Tools

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Keycloak

React

Java

Python

Appian

Job description

Base-2 Solutions invites a Platform Operations Manager to lead the design, development, and deployment of a modern, containerized stack supporting the D3P modernization program for OSINT across the Defense Enterprise.

You will ensure uptime, performance, and capacity for a large-scale big data platform, mentor a team of system administrators, and collaborate with engineers on architecture, security, and DevSecOps practices in a fast-paced environment.