Senior Software Engineer – Administrative Services Lead at Global C2 Integration Technologies in Reston, VA, USA

Job description

• GC2IT is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Administrative Services Lead to own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the administrative services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform. The role leads the control plane, administrative interfaces, user/role management, and peripheral/device management services needed to deploy and operate the platform consistently in the field.

Responsibilities

• · Own the administrative services portfolio, including control-plane services, administrative interfaces, user/role administration, authentication/authorization, install/upgrade lifecycle services, and peripheral/middleware management.
• · Define and maintain the architecture and delivery roadmap for administrative capabilities across multiple environments and deployment types.
• · Lead development and sustainment of administrative user experiences for system administrators, operations personnel, support/field teams, site/regional managers, and role-specific users.
• · Own user provisioning, lifecycle management, RBAC, permissions models, delegated administration, and secure administrative workflows.
• · Oversee integration and lifecycle management of peripheral drivers, SDKs, vendor APIs, middleware services, and compatibility/upgrade planning.
• · Serve as the primary technical lead for vendor engagement related to device and middleware certification into the platform.
• · Define and manage technical evaluation, certification criteria, compatibility testing, documentation, and supportability requirements for new peripherals and middleware providers.
• · Ensure reliable installation, upgrade, rollback, and support operations across globally distributed sites.
• · Partner with software architecture, platform engineering, security, field engineering, operations, and QA teams to ensure the administrative/control-plane stack is robust and supportable.
• · Independently manage this service domain, drive delivery outcomes, and participate in technical triage/root-cause analysis involving administration, authentication, user access, device integration, and platform management workflows.

Requirements

• · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; four additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
• · Ten or more years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including at least four years leading a major technical service area or team.
• · Strong experience designing and delivering administrative/control-plane services for complex distributed systems.
• · Experience with user/role management, authentication/authorization, administrative UI/UX, install/upgrade lifecycle orchestration, and/or device/peripheral management platforms.
• · Experience leading cross-functional delivery across software, operations, QA, and field/support teams.
• · Ability to engage external vendors and hold them to technical integration, documentation, and certification standards.
• · Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage both roadmap work and operational support issues.
• · Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical design documentation and executive-level summaries.
• · Proven experience integrating third-party vendor components into production systems, including hardware peripherals, SDKs, middleware, drivers, and versioned dependencies.
• · Strong understanding of compatibility management across software, firmware, drivers, and vendor releases.
• · Experience managing service delivery for multiple user personas and differing levels of administrative access.
• · Ability to define service boundaries, ownership models, and roadmaps for a complex service portfolio.
• · Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• · Master's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics, or a related field.
• · Experience in Linux-based distributed environments and with Java-based backend services and modern web administrative interfaces.
• · Experience with role-based access control, identity federation, and secure administrative workflows.
• · Experience with remote management of fielded systems across geographically distributed sites.
• · Experience designing software certification/onboarding processes for third-party peripherals and vendors.
• · Familiarity with release engineering and compatibility testing for drivers, SDKs, and middleware components.
• · Experience with highly available or mission-critical operational platforms and technical documentation/knowledge artifacts for admin workflows, upgrade procedures, and supported-device matrices.
• · Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as Vue.js and service platforms using Consul, Nomad, Vault, or equivalent stacks.
• · Experience with observability/operational tooling, image-capture or reader devices, multilingual administrative interfaces, globally deployed platforms, and formal certification/testing programs for external hardware or middleware providers.

Skills

Required

• Software engineering
• Data platform engineering
• Search engineering
• Analytics platform experience
• User/role management
• Authentication/authorization
• Administrative UI/UX
• Install/upgrade lifecycle orchestration
• Device/peripheral management platforms
• Cross-functional leadership
• Vendor engagement
• Problem-solving

Preferred

• Linux-based distributed environments
• Java-based backend services
• Modern web administrative interfaces
• Role-based access control
• Identity federation
• Secure administrative workflows
• Remote management of fielded systems
• Release engineering