{"id":1118930,"url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-technical-program-director-lead-systems-engineer","title":"Technical Program Director / Lead Systems Engineer","company":{"id":722,"name":"Peraton","domain":"peraton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/peraton","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":190000,"max":304000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":304000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":20,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"HPC","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T17:43:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T00:05:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Responsibilities\nPeraton Labs is seeking a senior technical and strategic leader to serve as the primary customer-facing technical authority for a premier research program operating across classified and unclassified environments for our Maryland-based customer. This role provides infrastructure and research enablement, ensuring the platform is mission-ready, resilient, compliant, and continuously modernized. You’ll be the senior technical leader ensuring our research mission can execute reliably by shaping the platform roadmap, leading certification/compliance-heavy initiatives, and keeping both infrastructure and research enablement moving forward with discipline and clarity.\nThis position combines Lead Systems Engineering responsibilities with program technical leadership. You’ll guide technical strategy, lead cross-functional execution and drive high-priority engineering efforts at scale.\nThis position requires full-time on-site work at a customer site near College Park, MD.\nKey responsibilities may include:\nServe as the primary technical interface to the customer, leading technical discussions, briefings, risk decisions, tradeoffs, and roadmap alignment\nTranslate evolving mission needs into actionable technical strategy, execution plans, and modernization priorities across research and infrastructure\nOwn technical delivery outcomes: availability, performance, compliance posture, platform evolution, and operational excellence\nAct as the senior systems engineering authority for end-to-end architecture across multi-domain environments (unclassified and classified networks)\nLead engineering efforts for system development, integration, and certification, including high-visibility compliance initiatives\nLead core infrastructure support services enabling research teams: compute, storage, network services, identity/access patterns, monitoring, backup/restore, and lifecycle refresh\nImprove resiliency and operational maturity: incident response patterns, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, capacity planning, and change control\nGuide modernization efforts while maintaining uptime and mission continuity\nDrive secure baselines across multi-OS environments\nLead implementation and validation of controls aligned to appliance governance policies, always ensuring audit readiness\nPartner with security/compliance stakeholders to close gaps and continuously improve security posture without breaking research velocity\nLead and mentor cross-functional teams, ensuring infrastructure priorities align to research execution\nDirect subcontract personnel, establish accountability, and maintain consistent delivery quality through clear technical expectations and operation rhythm\n*This position may be eligible for an increased sign-on bonus. Eligibility, bonus amount, and applicable terms and conditions will be discussed during the recruiting process*\nQualifications\nMinimum qualifications\n20+ years of experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts and a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Management, or related discipline. Five years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for bachelor’s degree, for a total of 25 years of experience\n5+ years of demonstrated experience working with large complex engineering systems and subsystems with expertise applied across multiple engineering disciplines such as electrical, computer, software, telecommunications, information security, and networking\nDemonstrated success as a hands-on technical leader who can also set strategy and drive execution across teams and stakeholders within complex mission environments\nProven customer-facing leadership: ability to brief clearly, make tradeoffs, manage expectations, and communicate risk/impact that is clearly understood\nHigh level of experience within classified environments and the operational realities of compliance, access controls, and mission uptime\nExperience implementing security best practices in high-compliance environments\nAbility to plan work, manage technical risk, and drive accountability across mixed teams of Peraton, subcontract, and customer personnel, to deliver outcomes on schedule\nThis position requires an active/current TS/SCI w/ Polygraph\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience serving as an engineering director, program engineering lead, or equivalent senior technical authority\nExperience designing secure data management solutions\nVirtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, enterprise storage platforms and/or research compute environments (HPC)\nExperience supporting research teams and experimental environments where requirements evolve and rapid iteration is needed\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton 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.\nTarget Salary Range\n$190,000 - $304,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.EEO\nEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6185,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":20,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["National Security","Homeland Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T17:43:55Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:29","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":304000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-technical-program-director-lead-systems-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-technical-program-director-lead-systems-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T09:29:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}