Lead, Software Engineer; Platform, Operator Systems, DevSecOps

Job Title

Lead Software Engineer (Platform, Operator Systems, and Dev Sec Ops )

40437

Colorado Springs, CO

9/80 schedule (Every Other Friday Off)

The Lead Software Engineer, Platform, Operator Systems, and Dev Sec Ops , is a hands‑on technical lead for a new program and leads a small software engineering team building the initial shared platform and operator‑systems baseline. The role focuses on delivering a common, open‑interfaces baseline that supports Missile Warning, Missile Defense, and Space Domain Awareness missions through shared backend services, equipment integration, workflow orchestration, secure delivery automation, and operator‑facing status integration.

• Lead a hands‑on software engineering team delivering shared platform, operator‑system integration, and secure‑delivery capabilities for a new program initial implementation.
• Make architecture decisions within the team scope and represent backend, platform, workflow, and operator‑integration tradeoffs in cross‑team and program‑level architecture discussions.
• Contribute directly to implementation, peer review, interface closure, integration planning, troubleshooting, and technical risk reduction.
• Coordinate across teams to keep common services, interfaces, and operator‑facing behavior aligned and operationally coherent across the baseline.
• Drive development of shared platform services, equipment integration, workflow automation, secure delivery, observability, and operator‑system integration across the baseline.

• 2+ years of technical leadership experience leading small engineering teams in software delivery.
• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience, or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
• Experience with shared backend services, event‑driven or message‑oriented architectures, or interface‑contract definition across multiple teams or suppliers.
• Experience developing and integrating platform or operator‑system software, with depth in one or more of these areas:
  • shared backend or distributed platform software
  • Equipment control, device interfaces, or representative simulators
  • Workflow orchestration or recovery automation
  • Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, Kubernetes‑based platform automation, or secure software delivery
  • Human‑machine interface or operator‑console integration using React or similar modern UI frameworks
• Experience with distributed or interface‑heavy mission systems in Linux environments.
• Experience with modern UI frameworks and client technologies such as React.
• Proficiency in backend systems programming languages such as C++ and Go.
• Familiarity with identity federation, workload identity, policy‑enforcement patterns, audit‑event design, or least‑privilege access controls.
• Experience with configuration frameworks that support baseline and location‑unique behavior.
• Experience with equipment‑control software, hardware‑control systems, timing‑sensitive interfaces, or mixed hardware‑and‑simulator integration labs.
• Experience with fault injection, degraded‑mode testing, maintenance or safe‑mode behavior, simulator adequacy assessment, or compare‑to‑hardware validation.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, configuration‑driven automation, calibration flows, startup or recovery automation, or operator‑visible automation for mission systems.
• Experience operating in air‑gapped or restricted development environments using Kubernetes, Helm, Git Ops, artifact registries, package mirrors, or similar platform tooling.
• Experience integrating code‑quality, test, compliance, vulnerability‑scanning, signed‑artifact, or release‑governance gates into delivery pipelines.
• Experience with operator consoles, status displays, or control‑room software in defense, aerospace, or industrial environments.
• Familiarity with front‑end state management, UI test automation, or performance tuning for complex operational interfaces.

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