- Requisition ID: 5535
- Standard Title:
- Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
- Location: Bethesda, MD
- Work Type: On-Site
- Shift: First
- Referral Eligibility: Eligible
- U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes
- Sign-On Bonus:
Position SummaryBase-2 Solutions is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to join a high-energy team deploying and maintaining common application-runtime capabilities in support of the DIA-NDOC (National Digital Exploitation and OSINT Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort, where you'll contribute to mission-critical capabilities alongside a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented team. The role provides technical leadership, product direction, and ongoing execution for a multidisciplinary application team responsible for deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities. You'll work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, government stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate mission priorities and product roadmap requirements into actionable technical solutions and delivered capabilities. The majority of work is performed on-site at the customer location in Bethesda, MD, with a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- As a Platform Services Technical Lead, you'll provide technical leadership, product direction, and ongoing execution for a multidisciplinary application team responsible for deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities.
- You'll work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, government stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate mission priorities and product roadmap requirements into actionable technical solutions and delivered capabilities.
- In this role, you'll guide technical design and implementation while managing product priorities, team execution, and delivery commitments.
- You'll help balance new capabilities, operational sustainment, technical debt, and evolving mission requirements to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with program objectives.
- You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks:
- Provide technical leadership and direction for the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of NDOC's mission applications.
- Collaborate with government stakeholders, Systems Engineers, and the Release Train Engineer to translate mission requirements and product roadmap priorities into executable development plans.
- Own and prioritize the team backlog, decomposing features and requirements into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Guide technical design and implementation decisions, ensuring solutions align with system architecture, engineering standards, security requirements, and mission objectives.
- Lead technical discussions, evaluate solution alternatives, and help resolve complex 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 issues affecting delivery.
- Drive execution against Program Increment (PI) 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 supporting current and future capabilities.
Required Qualifications- You're a technically strong, collaborative leader who can translate complex mission needs into practical engineering solutions while guiding a team toward successful delivery.
- Experience meeting an applicable education and experience pathway in the equivalency section.
- Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting Kubernetes in a production environment, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration, namespace/tenant management, resource quotas, limits, and capacity planning, role-based access control (RBAC), and troubleshooting workload, networking, scheduling, performance, and availability issues.
- Demonstrated experience operating shared platform services such as Elastic and Redis in production, including version management, configuration, scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup/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, with the ability to translate platform risks, tradeoffs, capacity concerns, and investment needs for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience serving as a Devops, Platform, or Shared Services Technical Lead, lead Systems Engineer, or similar role.
- Experience working in an Agile program, especially SAFe Agile.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems.
- Cloud infrastructure experience.
- Experience with Appian or other low-code software technologies.
- Experience with any of the following technologies: PostgreSQL DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins Keycloak.
- Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Java, Python,.NET.
- Experience interacting with or administering MSSQL Server databases or other relational databases.
Required Education and Experience Equivalency- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field with 12 or more years of prior relevant experience.
- Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.
Required Security Clearance- Active Top Secret/SCI
- Must obtain a CI polygraph after start; Top Secret/SCI required to start.
- U.S. citizenship is required
Pay & Benefit HighlightsCompensation- Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
- Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
- Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).
Health- 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
- Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
- 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
- 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Income Protection- 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
- 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
- 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
- 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.
Retirement- 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.
Leave- Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
- 11 paid floating holidays.
Work-Life Balance- Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).
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