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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons is looking for an amazingly talentedSenior Software Engineer, Admin Services Lead to join our team!\nIn this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the administrative services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nOwning the administrative services portfolio, including control-plane services, admin interfaces, user/role management, authentication/authorization, lifecycle management, and peripheral/middleware services\nDefining and maintaining architecture and delivery roadmaps for administrative capabilities across multiple deployment types and environments\nLeading development and sustainment of administrative experiences for system administrators, operations personnel, field/support teams, regional managers, and role-specific users\nOverseeing integration and lifecycle management of peripherals and middleware-including drivers, SDKs, vendor APIs, and compatibility planning\nServing as the technical lead for vendor engagement, certification processes, and introduction of new peripherals or middleware while ensuring reliable installation, upgrade, rollback, and support operations\nWhat Required Skills You’ll Bring:\nTS/SCI minimum clearance required.\nBachelor’s degree in a technical field (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree)\n15+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years leading a major service or functional domain\nExperience with Java-based backend microservices and modern web-based administrative interfaces\nStrong experience designing and delivering administrative/control-plane services for complex distributed systems\nExperience with user and role management, secure access-control services, lifecycle orchestration, or peripheral/device management platforms\nStrong ability to troubleshoot issues across administration, authentication, user access, device integration, compatibility, and platform management workflows\nWhat Desired Skills You’ll Bring:\nActive Polygraph a plus\nExperience with the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and/or the LGTM Stack, including Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir\nFamiliarity with HashiCorp technologies, including Nomad, Consul, Vault, and Terraform, in clustered and distributed environments\nExperience working in Linux-based distributed environments and with modern operational tooling for control-plane services\nExperience designing, integrating, and troubleshooting RESTful APIs in highly available distributed environments\nExperience conducting compatibility testing for versioned drivers and SDKs\nFamiliarity with release engineering practices for device integration components\nExperience applying secure design principles to administrative workflows\n Security Clearance Requirement:\nAn active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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