Platform Services Technical Lead

Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is not just another tech company. We’re a community of innovators, engineers, analysts and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. For more than 20 years we’ve supported critical Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civilian missions and global, multi-national corporations. We specialize in supporting our clients in the Intelligence, Technology, Defense, AI/ML, and Data Science fields. As we continue to grow at a rapid pace, we need some amazing new professionals to join our team.

ABSC has an exciting opening for a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead supporting DIA-NDOC’s D3P modernization under the DTP contract. You will provide technical leadership, product direction, and execution for the team deploying and sustaining Kubernetes-based application-runtime capabilities and shared services used by mission applications.

The 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) program modernizes the secure data, application, and infrastructure capabilities supporting DIA’s National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). The program delivers scalable media processing, data discovery, enrichment, and analytical services that help mission users transform large volumes of digital information into timely, actionable intelligence. Team members work across software development, systems engineering, cybersecurity, platform operations, and mission integration to sustain current operations while delivering the next generation of DTP capabilities.

Work location and schedule: Most work is performed onsite at the customer location in Bethesda, MD. A flexible schedule and occasional remote work may be available based on customer requirements and deliverables.

Security clearance required for this role: An active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph is required.

As an integral member of the DTP team, you will work closely with Government stakeholders and cross-functional engineering teams on the following key tasks:

• Lead the design, integration, deployment, operation, and sustainment of mission application-runtime and shared platform services.
• Translate Government mission priorities and product-roadmap requirements into executable technical plans and backlog items.
• Own and prioritize the team backlog and define user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Guide architecture, engineering, security, automation, and implementation decisions.
• Lead technical discussions, evaluate alternatives, and resolve complex application, integration, Kubernetes, Linux, data-service, and infrastructure challenges.
• Balance new capabilities, security findings, defects, operational sustainment, and technical debt.
• Identify and manage technical risks, capacity concerns, dependencies, and impediments.
• Drive execution against Program Increment objectives and sprint commitments.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews and demonstrations, retrospectives, and PI Planning.
• Promote automated testing, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, application security, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate progress, status, risks, tradeoffs, and investment needs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Contribute to technical documentation, design reviews, and planning for current and future capabilities.

To be successful in this role, you must meet the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field with 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes administration, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, configuration, namespaces, tenancy, quotas, limits, capacity planning, RBAC, and troubleshooting.
• Experience operating Elastic, Redis, or comparable shared platform services, including configuration, scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup, recovery, upgrades, and incident response.
• Experience implementing least privilege, vulnerability remediation, secure baselines, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.
• Experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, SLIs, capacity monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Linux application hosting, containers, images, networking, DNS, TLS and certificates, and storage.
• Experience using CloudFormation, Helm, Salt, Ansible, or comparable automation and configuration-management tools.
• Experience as a DevOps, Platform, Shared Services, or Systems Engineering technical lead.
• Experience working in an Agile program, particularly SAFe.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Experience with AI-driven processing systems.
• Cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience with Appian or another low-code platform.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Keycloak, GitLab, Jenkins, or other CI/CD technologies.
• Development or scripting experience with Java, Python, or .NET.
• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server or another relational database.

Salary is commensurate with education and years of experience. The anticipated salary range for this requisition is $135,000 - $245,000 annually. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include, but are not limited to, the responsibilities of the position, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, security clearance, internal equity, applicable market data, contractual labor-category requirements, applicable bargaining agreements, and other applicable laws or requirements.

ABSC is a technology and services company that combines the agility of a small business with proven processes refined over more than two decades in business. We specialize in supporting public sector clients in the Intelligence, Defense, Health, and Safety areas. Our team stands ready to deliver the next generation of programs, personnel, and solutions to help advance our federal government customers’ driving innovation, agility, and security across all mission areas.

• Generous PTO plus 11 Federal Holidays
• Retirement Planning – 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance – buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development – Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off – Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match – ABSC matches an employee’s donation to a qualifying charity
• Referral Program – We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards – Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program

Apply to join our team today! We are always looking to grow our team - if you know someone who is seeking a new career opportunity, please share this job opening with them. ABSC offers generous external referral bonuses. You don’t need to be an employee to benefit from our Referral Program.

ABSC is a proud V3, Virginia Values Vets, member which recognizes our commitment to hiring Veterans. If you are a veteran, please be sure to include that in your application.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.