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Technical Program Director / Lead Systems Engineer

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College Park, USA

Full-time

Senior · 20+ years experience

Onsite

USD 190000-304000 yearly / year

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Peraton Labs is seeking a senior technical and strategic leader to serve as the primary customer-facing technical authority for a premier research program operating across classified and unclassified environments for our Maryland-based customer.

This role provides infrastructure and research enablement, ensuring the platform is mission-ready, resilient, compliant, and continuously modernized.

You’ll be the senior technical leader ensuring our research mission can execute reliably by shaping the platform roadmap, leading certification/compliance-heavy initiatives, and keeping both infrastructure and research enablement moving forward with discipline and clarity.

This position combines Lead Systems Engineering responsibilities with program technical leadership.

You’ll guide technical strategy, lead cross-functional execution and drive high-priority engineering efforts at scale.

This position requires full-time on-site work at a customer site near College Park, MD.

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Serve as the primary technical interface to the customer, leading technical discussions, briefings, risk decisions, tradeoffs, and roadmap alignment
Translate evolving mission needs into actionable technical strategy, execution plans, and modernization priorities across research and infrastructure
Own technical delivery outcomes: availability, performance, compliance posture, platform evolution, and operational excellence
Act as the senior systems engineering authority for end-to-end architecture across multi-domain environments (unclassified and classified networks)
Lead engineering efforts for system development, integration, and certification, including high-visibility compliance initiatives
Lead core infrastructure support services enabling research teams: compute, storage, network services, identity/access patterns, monitoring, backup/restore, and lifecycle refresh
Improve resiliency and operational maturity: incident response patterns, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, capacity planning, and change control
Guide modernization efforts while maintaining uptime and mission continuity

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Experience serving as an engineering director, program engineering lead, or equivalent senior technical authority
Experience designing secure data management solutions
Virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, enterprise storage platforms and/or research compute environments (HPC)
Experience supporting research teams and experimental environments where requirements evolve and rapid iteration is needed

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.

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