Digital Engineering Technical Lead

SABEL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LLC • Beavercreek, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Sabel Systems is hiring a Digital Engineering Technical Lead to lead engineering teams and oversee Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) capabilities supporting IL5 and IL6 environments. The role sets priorities, assigns work, reviews deliverables, and owns delivery from implementation through testing and production. It provides technical subject-matter expertise to clients and coordinates platform requirements, onboarding, and support across digital engineering, AI, DevTeam, Scrum, and customer engagement teams.

The Technical Lead maintains the PaaS and SaaS technical roadmap and architecture decisions in alignment with the Digital Ecosystem Director's priorities. The position ensures environments and services are operational, available, and monitored; leads incident response; coordinates security events with the ISSM; and works with the IaaS provider on capacity, dependencies, change windows, and escalations. It also ensures security controls, ATO requirements, and change control are met.

The role supports database and API communication development, prepares technical documentation, reports status, risks, and cost estimates, and mentors engineers. The successful candidate will communicate effectively with users at all skill levels and maintain accurate electronic records and support knowledgebase or procedure documentation.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an active Secret clearance.
• Customer-service and results orientation, problem-solving ability, willingness to seek assistance when needed, self-direction, strong oral and written communication, ability to handle multiple tasks, and decision-making experience.
• Experience leading technical teams and making priority and resourcing decisions across multiple programs.
• At least 10 years of experience with computer systems support, server installation and support, network administration, containerization technologies, and large enterprise-scale platforms, including at least 3 years leading technical teams.
• Experience troubleshooting complex network and systems infrastructure issues.
• Linux administration experience.
• Kubernetes administration, containers, and pod networking experience.
• Experience installing software, patches, and updates for Kubernetes.
• Experience working with the DoD cybersecurity framework.
• Hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting Kubernetes.
• Experience managing IL5 and IL6 PaaS or SaaS environments.
• Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Helm Charts, Ansible, or Cloud Formation.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or Go for automation tasks.
• CompTIA Security+ CE certification.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experience in at least two of the following areas: cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services; DoD-specific cloud platforms such as ARCUS, CloudOne, or RogueOne; administering Atlassian tools or supporting custom applications; digital engineering or model-based systems engineering toolchains; Docker or Kubernetes; or supporting AI or data platform workloads.

Nice To Haves

• Top Secret clearance.
• Advanced degree.
• Experience with Active Directory and Windows Servers.
• Experience with Platform One Big Bang, Party Bus, and Iron Bank.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams supporting IL5 and IL6 environments by setting priorities, assigning work, and reviewing deliverables.
• Engage with clients as a technical subject-matter expert in technical, training, and troubleshooting discussions.
• Ensure CI/CD applications, databases, and tools hosted on the Kubernetes platform are operational and functioning within the pipeline.
• Lead incident response for PaaS and SaaS layers and coordinate security events with the ISSM.
• Support database and API communication development activities.
• Prepare technical documentation, including standard procedures, reports, research, and cost analyses.
• Coordinate with the IaaS provider on capacity, dependencies, change windows, and escalations affecting PaaS and SaaS services.
• Own project delivery for PaaS and SaaS capabilities from implementation through testing and production.
• Ensure IL5 and IL6 environments are operational, available, and monitored, and resolve issues affecting digital engineering, AI, Atlassian, agile, and customer engagement workflows.
• Maintain the PaaS and SaaS technical roadmap and architecture decisions across IL5 and IL6 in alignment with the Digital Ecosystem Director's priorities.
• Translate customer needs into logical, feasible, affordable solutions that are on the roadmap and tracked.
• Make PaaS and SaaS architecture and operations decisions, and advocate with the IaaS provider and ISSM to meet security controls, ATO requirements, and change control.
• Coordinate platform requirements, onboarding, and support with Digital Engineering, AI, DevTeam, Scrum, and CEM leads.
• Provide input on team staffing, performance, and training, and mentor engineers on PaaS and SaaS operations.
• Report status, risks, and cost estimates to the Digital Ecosystem Director.
• Communicate with users at all skill levels and document unique issues and solutions in support knowledgebases or procedure and policy documents.
• Update and maintain electronic records with accurate data.

Benefits

• Healthcare.
• Financial assistance in the event of illness, injury, disability, loss of work, or death.
• Health savings accounts.
• Retirement plans.
• Paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Education and training program reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior