Systems Engineer - Platform Lead (III)

Systems Engineer - Platform Lead

Job Description

Platform Technical Lead / Principal Platform Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Employment Type

Hybrid

Security Clearance

Top Secret/SCI (Or with SCI Eligibility)

Compensation

$135,000 - $180,000

Position Status

Anticipated opportunity; contingent upon XSITE being selected to provide support and final position approval.

Position Overview

XSITE is seeking a Platform Technical Lead / Principal Platform Engineer to support the Navy's Tactical Networks.

In this role, you will serve as the Platform Team’s senior technical authority, guiding the architecture, integration, modernization, and sustainment of TIDE platform services. TIDE is intended to replace Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES), Automated Digital Network System (ADNS), and Agile Core Services (ACS).

You will lead engineering efforts that enable secure, resilient, and supportable platform services across afloat, ashore, cloud, hybrid-cloud, and tactical-edge environments, including operations with intermittent connectivity and limited bandwidth. Working with engineering leadership, product stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams, you will translate mission requirements into practical technical designs and delivery plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain platform reference architectures, technical standards, engineering roadmaps, integration strategies, and lifecycle baselines.
• Provide technical direction, engineering oversight, peer review, and mentorship to engineers responsible for container platforms, DevSecOps and automation, networking and identity, and observability and site reliability.
• Lead the design and integration of Kubernetes or equivalent container platforms, application-hosting services, virtual-machine integration, and platform lifecycle capabilities.
• Guide common approaches for infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI/CD, container registries, artifact management, and secure software supply chains.
• Oversee integration of platform networking, ingress, service discovery, identity and access management, certificates, secrets, and service-to-service security.

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