Position Overview

The technical lead partners with the program manager to ensure team members are empowered to do their best work building solutions for our customer.

Rather than being the smartest person in the room or the team’s best engineer, the technical lead enables their team to sustainably and efficiently make and implement the best possible technical decisions. A good technical lead shapes their team with the right tools and attributes to deliver the best possible product for Clarity's customers.

Qualifications

Team Leadership

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively engage with various stakeholders from customers to senior leadership

• Experience providing formal and informal technical mentorship to teammates

Technical Delivery

• Proficient with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration

• Experience writing code in a general-purpose language such as Python or GoLang

• Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows

• Proficient in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman)

• Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) utilities (Crossplane, Backstage)

• Experience architecting Kubernetes application deployments (using primitives such as, Pods, Services, Deployments, Namespaces, etc)

• Experience deploying, managing, scaling Kubernetes workloads (e.g. Helm, Flux, Argo)

• Experience configuring Kubernetes networking (e.g., Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies)

• Experience implementing or managing a Kubernetes Service Mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)

• Experience with Kubernetes cluster administration, including node management, upgrades, and troubleshooting

Product Ownership

• Experience translating customer requirements into actionable user stories/features

• Experience breaking down large features into demonstrable and valuable milestones

• Experience prioritizing and delegating tasks for at least one other team member

Growth

• Experience contributing to technical proposals or similar products (e.g., technical white papers, rough order of magnitude estimates)

Preferred Qualifications

• Active US TS/SCI security clearance with CI polygraph or higher

• More than 10 years of industry experience in a platform engineering or DevOps role.  Experience with either in the cyber operations domain is a bonus.

• Experience communicating with customers and end-users

• Experience delivering and managing capabilities in operational / production environments

• Experience leading software design and architecture

• Experience evaluating technologies and making informed decisions

• Strong technical understanding of programming languages and tools in use

• Strong understanding of at least one Agile methodology (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)