Technical Manager (Cloud, DevSecOps & Enterprise Architecture

Responsibilities

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

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 Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galax