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Job Summary:
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence. They are seeking a Senior Tech Lead - Cyber Systems Engineer to lead and mentor technical teams, ensuring systems are mission-ready and compliant in a highly complex environment of classified and unclassified systems.
Responsibilities:
• Act as the senior technical authority for system architecture, engineering decisions, and operation execution across multi-domain environments
• Lead and coordinate teams of internal and subcontractor personnel across our research and infrastructure teams, ensuring infrastructure needs align with execution of research
• Provide hands-on engineering support for complex issues: root-cause analysis, performance tuning, reliability improvements, and lifecycle modernization
• Engineer and maintain secure system baselines for a multi-OS environment, including hardening, patching, config management, and privileged access control
• Drive compliance and continuous security posture improvements aligned to applicable governance (e.g., RMF/NIST controls, policies, and security plans as outlined by the program/customer)
• Partner with compliance stakeholders to implement and validate technical controls and ensure audit readiness
• Lead design, development, integration, and delivery of IT and telecommunications systems/solutions
• Oversee network and systems operations: segmentation, routing/switching/WAN considerations, DNS/DHCP, firewall rulesets, and zero trust-aligned patterns where applicable
• Establish operational practices: monitoring/alerting, backup/restore, capacity planning, and change control
• Serve as a primary technical interface to the customer: brief status, risks, architecture decisions, and tradeoffs
• Direct subcontract personnel and coordinate across stakeholders to deliver outcomes on schedule with high technical quality
Qualifications:
Required:
• 20+ years of experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts and a bachelor's degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Management, or related discipline. Five years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for bachelor's degree, for a total of 25 years of experience
• 5+ years of recent demonstrated experience working with large complex engineering systems and subsystems, with expertise applied across multiple engineering disciplines such as electrical, computer, software, telecommunications, information security, and networking
• Demonstrated success leading technical teams (multi-discipline, mixed prime/subcontract, customer-facing) as a hands-on contributor
• Strong Linux and Windows administration background (build/configure/harden/troubleshoot)
• Experience implementing security best practices
• Proficiency in automation/scripting (e.g., Powershell, Bash, Python) and experience with configuration management and repeatable deployments
• Strong customer communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear risk/impact statements
• Ability to plan work, drive accountability, manage technical risk, and make sound engineering tradeoffs
• This position requires an active/current TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Preferred:
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation at scale (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD)
• Containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and securing those environments
• Cloud/hybrid architecture and security experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Advanced cyber operations experience (e.g., Red/Purple/Blue team, adversary emulation, pentest tooling, threat hunting)
• Experience building runbooks, standard operating procedures, and repeatable onboarding patterns for systems and staff
• Experience supporting high-compliance or mission environments, including multi-stakeholder delivery and contract/subcontract oversight
Company:
At Peraton Labs, we refuse to think inside the box. As Peraton’s innovation hub, we are molding the future of emerging technologies. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Basking Ridge, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.