Senior Software Engineer – Administrative Services Lead

Gc2it; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gc2it is looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to lead administrative services for mission-critical systems. This role involves overseeing platform administration services and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate should have over 10 years of relevant experience, strong communication skills, and an active TS/SCI clearance. The position offers a hybrid work setup based in Reston, VA.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience.
• Experience supporting administrative/control-plane services for distributed systems.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and sustainment of administrative service capabilities.
• Manage user provisioning, RBAC, authentication, and authorization services.
• Support operational troubleshooting and issue remediation activities.

Skills

Experience with RBAC

Identity management

Secure administrative workflows

Strong understanding of Linux

Excellent written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Kubernetes

Consul

Nomad

Vault

Job description

Reston, VA (CONUS / OCONUS Support) | Hybrid / Remote Eligible Based on Mission Requirements

Position Summary

Global C2 Integration Technologies (GC2IT) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer – Administrative Services Lead to support the design, delivery, and sustainment of enterprise administrative services supporting globally distributed mission systems.

This role is responsible for overseeing platform administration services, control-plane functionality, user and role management, authentication services, lifecycle management processes, and peripheral integration support for mission-critical operational environments.

The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience supporting distributed systems, operational platforms, and secure administrative workflows while coordinating across engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and field support teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and sustainment of administrative service capabilities supporting globally distributed mission platforms.
• Develop and maintain control-plane services, administrative interfaces, and platform management capabilities.
• Manage user provisioning, role-based access control (RBAC), authentication, and authorization services.
• Support software installation, upgrade, rollback, and lifecycle orchestration activities.
• Oversee peripheral device integration efforts including middleware, SDKs, drivers, and vendor APIs.
• Coordinate with third-party vendors to certify peripherals and middleware into operational environments.
• Develop technical roadmaps and administrative service architectures for multiple deployment environments.
• Support operational troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and issue remediation activities.
• Collaborate with Software Architects, Platform Engineers, Cybersecurity personnel, QA teams, and Field Support personnel.
• Produce technical documentation, upgrade procedures, supported device matrices, and administrative workflows.
• Participate in system readiness reviews, engineering reviews, and operational support activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• Additional relevant experience may substitute for formal education requirements.
• Minimum 10 years of software engineering or platform engineering experience.
• Experience supporting administrative/control-plane services for distributed systems.
• Experience with RBAC, identity management, and secure administrative workflows.
• Experience integrating third-party hardware, SDKs, middleware, and device drivers.
• Strong understanding of Linux-based operational environments.
• Ability to support globally distributed operational systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting mission-critical or highly available systems.
• Familiarity with Java-based backend services and modern administrative web interfaces.
• Experience with Consul, Nomad, Vault, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration platforms.
• Experience with remote management of geographically distributed systems.
• Experience supporting field engineering and operational support teams.
• Experience supporting hardware certification or peripheral integration programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to climb, bend, stretch, walk, sit use hands to handle or feel; frequently use fingers to type; talk and hear; occasionally stand, kneel, stoop, crouch, bend, twist or reach out; may require lifting or moving 10 lbs.; frequently required to reach with hands and arms. Vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work environment will have moderate noise when working in an office environment.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Equal Opportunity Employer - The Company does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

All applicants must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, including corresponding core job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities (and others in accordance with applicable law) to perform the essential functions of the job, consistent with applicable laws and Company policy.