Location:Columbia, MD
Type: Onsite
Travel: 15%
Position Overview:Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company, is looking to hire an Operations Lead to drive the technical operational delivery of a strategic DoD program. This role combines technical leadership and team management with hands-on engineering work, particularly with hardware. You will lead and personally perform engineering work across the program's technical lifecycle, lead a technical team, drive defensive cyber operations research, and serve as the senior technical interface for customer engagements and program reviews.
Note:This position is contingent upon award of an anticipated federal contract.
Duties and Responsibilities:- Lead and personally perform engineering tasks across the program technical lifecycle, including hands-on systems architecture, integration, and complex technical problem-solving.
- Perform hands-on hardware work as required, including cabling, physical setup, and configuration of servers, switches, and networking equipment in data center, lab, and staging environments.
- Conduct research and evaluate technical analysis with specific emphasis on defensive cyberspace operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and threats targeting US and DoD information networks.
- Lead a distributed technical team across multiple locations with a primary concentration in Columbia, MD; plan and allocate resources, estimate staffing needs, and coordinate cross-functional technical activities.
- Identify high-level functional and technical requirements through direct engagement with customers and knowledge of the DoD enterprise architecture.
- Serve as the senior technical interface to customers; deliver technical demonstrations, lead technical reviews, and represent the program in customer engagements and acquisition milestones.
- Lead escalation response for complex technical issues affecting kit delivery, customer operations, or program sustainment.
- Coordinate technical activities across system administration, configuration management, security, supply chain, and service delivery functions; establish and maintain operational processes, standards, and runbooks across the program technical team.
- Partner with the Program Technical Director on program technical strategy, risk management, and operational planning; drive technical decision-making across the program delivery team.
- Mentor senior engineers across the program team; contribute to technical career development and program-wide engineering standards.
- Support business development, proposal, and capture activities with senior technical input.
Minimum Qualifications:- U.S. Citizenship.
- Ability to obtain a security clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in systems engineering, with demonstrated depth across systems architecture (Windows, Linux, ESXi), network security architecture, software development, networking, and virtualization.
- 5+ years of experience with current defensive cyberspace TTPs and defensive cyber operations within Service Cyber Command elements, DoD, or federal cyber organizations.
- Demonstrated expertise in systems architecture design, network protocols, infrastructure hardening, and defense-in-depth practices.
- Working knowledge of defensive cyber tools including Splunk, Elastic, Zeek, Palo Alto, VMware, and similar platforms.
- Experience with virtualization technologies and management platforms (vCenter, Kubernetes, container deployment).
- Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Python, scripting) for systems and security operations.
- Demonstrated experience managing technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience managing technical solutions for federal government (preferably DoD) valued at $25M or greater.
- Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira, Confluence) and security frameworks for compliance and auditing.
- Strong technical decision-making, customer-facing communication, and demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a matrixed technical organization.
- Willingness and ability to learn cabling and physical setup for servers, switches, and other networking equipment.
- Comfortable working with hardware in a data center or server room environment, including running, organizing, and labeling cables.
- Must be able to lift, carry, and move packages weighing up to 50 lbs repeatedly throughout the workday to support delivery order fulfillment, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience supporting DoD Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) programs within Service Cyber Command elements.
- Experience with deployable or tactical edge computing platforms.
- Experience leading sustainment or service delivery for fielded DoD systems.
- Experience producing and delivering technical demonstrations to DoD customers.
- Experience with configuration management, quality management, and supply chain coordination in a program context.
- Experience supporting business development, capture, and proposal efforts.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
Sealing Tech offers competitive compensation packages, health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement contributions, continuing education budgets, tuition reimbursement, flexible schedules, and generous vacation policies. Other perks include complimentary snacks, drinks & monthly catered lunches, and company retreats and gatherings. Plus, flexible work arrangements, pet friendly offices and quarterly merit bonuses for qualified employees.
