Platform Services Technical Lead

Leidos•Bethesda, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to join a team deploying and maintaining common application-runtime capabilities for the DIA-NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). The position supports a 10-year program for the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort and provides technical leadership, product direction, and execution for a multidisciplinary application team responsible for mission-critical application-runtime capabilities. The Technical Lead works with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, government stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to turn mission priorities and roadmap requirements into technical solutions and delivered capabilities. The role guides technical design and implementation while managing product priorities, team execution, and delivery commitments, balancing new capabilities, operational sustainment, technical debt, and evolving mission needs to keep solutions secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with program objectives. Most work is performed onsite at the customer location in Bethesda, Maryland, with a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and 10 or more years of relevant experience.
Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting Kubernetes in production, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration, namespace and tenant management, resource quotas and limits, capacity planning, RBAC, and troubleshooting workload, networking, scheduling, performance, and availability issues.
Demonstrated production experience operating shared platform services such as Elastic and Redis, including version management, configuration, scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup and 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, including the ability to explain platform risks, tradeoffs, capacity concerns, and investment needs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Experience serving as a DevOps, Platform, or Shared Services Technical Lead, Lead Systems Engineer, or in a similar role.
Experience working in an Agile program, especially SAFe Agile.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems.
Cloud infrastructure experience.
Experience with Appian or other low-code software technologies.
Experience with PostgreSQL.
Experience with DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD tools and practices, especially GitLab or Jenkins.
Experience with Keycloak.
Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Java, Python, or .NET.
Experience interacting with or administering MSSQL Server or other relational databases.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and direction for the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of NDOC mission applications.
Collaborate with government stakeholders, Systems Engineers, and the Release Train Engineer to translate mission requirements and roadmap priorities into executable development plans.
Own and prioritize the team backlog, decomposing features and requirements into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
Guide technical design and implementation decisions to align with system architecture, engineering standards, security requirements, and mission objectives.
Lead technical discussions, evaluate solution alternatives, and help resolve 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 delivery issues.
Drive execution against Program Increment 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 for current and future capabilities.