Senior Software Engineer, Admin Services Lead

Parsons•Reston, VA

1d•$176,900 - $332,400

About The Position

Parsons is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the administrative services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform. The role owns the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of administrative services, including control-plane services, administrative interfaces, user and role management, authentication and authorization, lifecycle management, and peripheral and middleware services. The lead defines and maintains architecture and delivery roadmaps for administrative capabilities across deployment types and environments, and oversees development and sustainment of administrative experiences for system administrators, operations personnel, field and support teams, regional managers, and role-specific users. The role also oversees peripheral and middleware integration and lifecycle management, including drivers, SDKs, vendor APIs, and compatibility planning, and leads vendor engagement, certification, and introduction of new components while ensuring reliable installation, upgrade, rollback, and support operations. This position is part of Parsons’ Federal Solutions team, which delivers resources to U.S. government customers in defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental missions. An active Top Secret SCI clearance is required; the posting also lists TS/SCI as the minimum clearance requirement. The stated salary range is $176,900 to $332,400.

Requirements

Active Top Secret SCI security clearance; TS/SCI is stated as the minimum clearance requirement.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or four additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least four years leading a major service or functional domain.
Experience with Java-based backend microservices and modern web-based administrative interfaces.
Strong experience designing and delivering administrative or control-plane services for complex distributed systems.
Experience with user and role management, secure access-control services, lifecycle orchestration, or peripheral/device management platforms.
Strong ability to troubleshoot administration, authentication, user access, device integration, compatibility, and platform management workflow issues.

Nice To Haves

Active polygraph.
Experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) and/or the LGTM Stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir).
Familiarity with HashiCorp technologies, including Nomad, Consul, Vault, and Terraform, in clustered and distributed environments.
Experience working in Linux-based distributed environments and with modern operational tooling for control-plane services.
Experience designing, integrating, and troubleshooting RESTful APIs in highly available distributed environments.
Experience conducting compatibility testing for versioned drivers and SDKs.
Familiarity with release engineering practices for device integration components.
Experience applying secure design principles to administrative workflows.

Responsibilities

Own the administrative services portfolio, including control-plane services, admin interfaces, user and role management, authentication and authorization, lifecycle management, and peripheral and middleware services.
Define and maintain architecture and delivery roadmaps for administrative capabilities across deployment types and environments.
Lead development and sustainment of administrative experiences for system administrators, operations personnel, field and support teams, regional managers, and role-specific users.
Oversee integration and lifecycle management of peripherals and middleware, including drivers, SDKs, vendor APIs, and compatibility planning.
Serve as technical lead for vendor engagement, certification processes, and introduction of new peripherals or middleware.
Ensure reliable installation, upgrade, rollback, and support operations for peripherals and middleware.