Platform Engineer Team Lead

About the role

The Mission The Digital Modernization Sector has an exciting career opportunity for a Platform Engineering Team Lead to support the USAF Defensive Cyber Systems Program Management Office’s Product Section at Joint Base San Antonio. The Platform Engineer Team Lead position is one of the key technical leadership roles on the team. You will have the opportunity to be the Lead Engineer for major development projects related to data & analytics solutions and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers supporting enterprise software delivery platforms
• Establish platform engineering roadmaps, standards, and best practices
• Cook up platform initiatives across development, operations, security, and architecture teams
• Drive continuous improvement efforts focused on automation, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity
• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and container technologies
• Develop reusable platform services and self-service capabilities for application teams
• Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
• Ensure platform scalability, resiliency and operational efficiency
• Lead implementation and governance of enterprise CI/CD pipelines
• Implement GitOps practices and deployment automation strategies
• Implement and maintain observability solutions, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting
• Establish automated recovery, rollback, and incident response capabilities
• Maintain documentation, standards and operational procedures

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering or related technical roles
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams or engineering initiatives
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery processes
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker or other container orchestration technologies
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles, automation and software delivery best practices
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions
• Strong problem-solving, communication and leadership skills

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise platform engineering or developer platform initiatives
• Experience implementing GitOps solutions such as ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience supporting federal, defense or highly regulated environments
• Knowledge of RMF, NIST, Zero Trust or compliance-driven software delivery practices
• Experience with platform governance, policy-as-code and automated compliance validation
• Experience implementing Kubernetes-based developer platforms or Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and operational excellence programs
• Professional certifications such as: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Terraform Associate, Security+
• Experience mentoring engineers and building high-performing technical teams
• Experience driving cloud modernization and enterprise DevSecOps transformation initiatives

Benefits

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.