Digital Services Technical Lead

We're seeking a seasoned Digital Services Technical Lead to champion modern software delivery practices through DevSecOps methodology, guide incident resolution, and lead strategic technical improvements across a large-scale AWS-based enterprise environment. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic direction. You'll oversee high-impact software delivery initiatives, orchestrate critical incident responses, and influence a wide network of engineering teams to drive continuous improvement. The Ideal Candidate must be a strategic thinker and technical executor with a passion for reducing downtime, automating solutions, and building resilient, secure digital services, thrives in high-pressure environments, bring structure to chaos, and unite teams around common goals.

What will you do:

Lead the maturity and implementation of modern DevSecOps practices across software development and delivery teams.
• Direct and manage the real-time resolution of critical incidents, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and communicating with executive stakeholders.
• Conduct detailed root cause analysis and establish proactive technical solutions to avoid recurrence.
• Drive improvements to monitoring, alerting, automation, and incident response tooling.
• Serve as the primary liaison between software engineers, SREs, security teams, and business stakeholders during technical events.
• Facilitate post-incident reviews and lead efforts to integrate learnings into operational processes and tooling.
• Collaborate on building and evolving CI/CD pipelines, security controls, and delivery automation using GitLab, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Ensure reliability, performance, and security standards are maintained across infrastructure and application layers.
• Support Agile teams by integrating DevSecOps best practices into sprint cycles.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience. Additional 4 years of experience maybe accepted in lieu of the degree.
• 8 years of experience in cloud-native application delivery, AWS, networking, and infrastructure automation.
• Expert-level knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD automation, secure coding, and IaC using Terraform.
• Real-world experience resolving critical outages and leading root cause analysis efforts.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (CloudWatch, IAM, OpenSearch), container orchestration (EKS), and security tools (e.g., Aqua, DLP).
• Proficient in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Java, PowerShell, etc.).
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD including environment management, feature flags, and DORA Metrics reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical teams under pressure.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms like Datadog.
• Excellent communication skills, including executive-level incident briefings and technical documentation.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.