Digital Services Technical Lead

Digital Services Technical Lead

Job Locations

US

Requisition ID

2025-158759

Position Category

Engineering

Clearance

Public Trust

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Peraton Overview

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.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO : Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.