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## About the role
Lead the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of cloud-scale services and platform components used in security-critical and highly regulated environments. Own significant service areas end to end, including architecture, quality, security, reliability, and operational health. Partner with security, operations, program management, compliance, and customer-facing teams to deliver integrated solutions across organizational boundaries. Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, technical coaching, and modeling strong engineering practices. Lead investigations and resolution of complex live-site issues, including root-cause analysis, prevention planning, and operational improvements, and participate in and help mature 24x7 on-call practices, incident response, service health reviews, and safe deployment processes. Apply secure-by-design principles throughout the development lifecycle, including threat modeling, defense-in-depth, least privilege, and vulnerability remediation. Identify technical risks, drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, and deliver pragmatic solutions that balance customer needs, compliance requirements, and engineering excellence.
## Requirements
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
* government security screening requirements are required for this role.
* but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
* The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
* requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role.
* Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
* Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
* background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
* Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
* Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law.
* To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
* Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
* Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, reliability, and availability.
* Proven ability to lead technical design, influence architecture, and deliver complex projects across team or organizational boundaries
* Hands-on experience with modern DevOps systems, including source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, safe deployment practices, and code review tools.
* Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose issues across operating systems, applications, distributed services, and cloud environments.
* Experience with cloud computing fundamentals, virtual machines, networking, identity, service management, and distributed systems.
* Experience with security disciplines such as event collection, monitoring, detection engineering, vulnerability management, threat modeling, or security operations in cloud environments.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to align stakeholders, explain tradeoffs, and mentor engineers across multidisciplinary teams.
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