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# Platform Services Technical Lead

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** Gaithersburg, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $131,300.0 - $237,350.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Audit Trail, Software as a Service, Data Discovery, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Key Management, Networking Basics, Open Source Intelligence, Role-Based Access Control, Redis, Ansible, Software Vulnerability Management, Transport Layer Security, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/6d678950-3742-4bc0-9c5f-b57bf7a22a39/platform-services-technical-lead

## About the Role

* BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.
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 * Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
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 * 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.
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 * 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.
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 * Experience implementing and maintaining platform security and hardening practices, including least-privilege access, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration baselines, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.
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 * Experience with observability practices and tooling, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, capacity monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
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 * Strong knowledge of Linux-based application hosting, containers, container images, networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS/certificates, and storage concepts.
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 * Experience using infrastructure/platform automation and configuration management tools, such as Cloudformation, Helm, Salt, Ansible, or equivalent.
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 * Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate platform risks, tradeoffs, capacity concerns, and investment needs for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
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 * Experience serving as a Devops, Platform, or Shared Services Technical Lead, lead Systems Engineer, or similar role.
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 * Experience working in an Agile program, especially SAFe Agile.
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## Description

Leidos is looking for our next 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.