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# Technical Infrastructure SME

- **Company:** SciTec, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $195,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, OpenShift, Software Engineering, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Docker, Vmware, Microservices
- **Published:** May 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b3279d51-2d44-4663-9815-d4eaa9e1f3d8

## About the Role

* 5+ years actively developing and/or managing virtual technologies including VMWare, Linux, OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker

 * 3+ years of management experience and 10+ years of total professional experience

 * Demonstrable foundation in microservices, software design for cloud
 * Experience leading distributed multi-disciplined teams across different time zones
 * Experience leading teams for cloud-native architectures (Microservices, security, compliance, etc.) at scale
 * Experience managing teams of 5-10 people with measurable team and product success
 * Technical leadership and management experience in IT infrastructure engineering and DevOps environments
 * Excellent organizational and mentoring skills
 * Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
 * Detail oriented
 * Good verbal and written communication skills

Candidates meeting the following criteria will be preferred

 * An active DoD security clearance
 * Security+ Certification
 * Linux, VMWare, Openshift, Kubernetes Certifications

## Description

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions., The Technical Infrastructure SME will support various infrastructure and compute requirements across multiple locations. This person will have expertise in building and maintaining infrastructure platforms based on VMWare and Linux stack and will embody eagerness to create and own processes for enhancing the team and streamlining processes.

 * Design and deploy functional networks and private cloud platforms (LAN, WAN, on prem compute) as a member of product teams and corporate infrastructure teams supporting custom applications and DevOps processes
 * Resolve issues escalated by lower service desk tiers by troubleshooting deployed, cloud, and local infrastructure
 * Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness
 * Mentor team members on technical issues
 * Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g., access authentication and disaster recovery)
 * Communicate with users to design and field optimal solutions
 * Design and implement solutions to deliver superior network performance, capacity and scalability
 * Maintain complete technical documentation in support of Authorization To Operate (ATO) packages
 * Other duties as assigned


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