Senior DevOps​/Software Engineer Security Clearance

Technical Team Lead for Mission Intelligence (MI) Team

Serve as the Technical Team Lead for the Mission Intelligence team, supporting data engineering, analytics, and automation initiatives at Columbia, MD. The MI team operates a business intelligence platform that enables enterprise-wide, data-driven decision-making.

• Gather stakeholder requirements, assess available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics.
• Break down tasks into actionable steps that demonstrate consistent progress.
• Remove technical obstacles, manage expectations, and support team execution.
• Define and communicate task scope through clear documentation and tracking systems.
• Enable the team to integrate site reliability engineering practices into the operational platform.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers and data scientists.
• Produce project management materials such as agendas, meeting notes, and design decision records.

• Strong customer service orientation.
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills for collaborating across diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software deployment architectures.
• Experience or exposure to site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing documentation.

• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of map-reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop).
• Understanding of end-to-end signals intelligence collection and analysis systems.
• Experience with production offensive security operations capabilities and operations.

12 years with Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or 16 years without degree.

Columbia, MD

TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

$204,000 - $247,000