Technical Manager (Cloud, DevSecOps & Enterprise Architecture

Peraton is seeking a Technical Manager in our Linthicum, MD office to support our Department of Defense (DoD) customer as part of a highly talented, motivated, and high-performing team. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of cyber investigations, digital forensics, cyber threat analysis, and mission support in a dynamic and collaborative environment. The successful candidate will contribute to protecting national security interests by leveraging technical expertise, leadership skills, and innovative problem-solving to address complex cyber challenges.

In this role, you will lead the Cloud, DevSecOps, and Architecture team to deliver the secure, modern, and scalable infrastructure that powers these mission-critical cyber capabilities. You will bridge the gap between technical execution and business strategy through active resource management, team mentorship, and cross-functional alignment. Operating at the enterprise level, you will coordinate across multiple projects to decompose requirements, eliminate technical silos, and streamline redundant processes into cohesive, enterprise-wide project plans.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Team Leadership & Resource Management

Lead & Mentor: Oversee the daily operations of the Cloud, DevSecOps, and Architecture engineering teams, fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Resource Allocation: Manage workloads, balance resources, and align team efforts with overall mission and agency priorities.
• Technical Liaison: Serve as the primary translator and communication link between non-technical business stakeholders, DoD customers, and technical engineering teams.

2. Enterprise Coordination & Documentation Control

• Requirements Decomposition: Gather and analyze high-level stakeholder requirements, translating them into structured, actionable technical objectives for the Cloud, DevSecOps, and Architecture engineering teams
• Topology & Diagramming: Manage & Review the creation and updating of highly detailed logical network diagrams, physical infrastructure diagrams, and rack elevations in support of the DC3 Cloud and on-Prem Enterprise
• Compliance & Asset Management: Oversee Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) documentation management and oversee the DC3 Portfolio Management process.
• Silo Reduction: Identify overlapping technical requirements across different cyber and forensic projects to design shared enterprise-level network and cloud services, reducing duplicate work and manual labor.

3. Strategic Technical Oversight

• High-Level Direction: Provide strategic oversight for cloud initiatives (AWS/Azure) and modern infrastructure practices that support digital forensics and threat analysis platforms.
• Technical Evaluation: Evaluate proposed architectural solutions for scalability, security, and integration without performing hands-on development or coding.
• Compliance & Standards: Ensure all team deliverables comply with federal/DoD security frameworks and zero-trust principles.

Qualifications & Requirements

Experience & Leadership Skills

• Technical Leadership: Proven experience leading and managing technical teams (Cloud, DevSecOps, or Systems Engineering) in an enterprise or DoD environment.
• Strategic Communication: Strong ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, contract leadership and DoD customer representatives.
• Requirements & Asset Management: Experienced in enterprise requirements gathering, hardware/software tracking, systems documentation and agile methodologies (Scrum/Jira/Kanban).
• Technical Awareness
• Cloud & DevSecOps: Structural awareness of AWS/Azure architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Kubernetes/Docker), and modern infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Topology & Diagramming: High-level understanding of highly detailed logical network/ physical infrastructure diagrams and diagramming tools (e.g., MS Visio).
• Security & compliance: Familiarity with federal enterprise frameworks (e.g., DoDAF) and security compliance frameworks (RMF, NIST SP 800-53, Zero Trust) within a cybersecurity or digital forensics context.

Education & Experience

• 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience.
• Security Clearance: Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility.
• Desired Certifications: CISSP or CISM or Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Security+.

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.