Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted yesterday

Software Engineering & Platforms Manager

Leidos1,853 open roles

Where
Alexandria, VA
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowSoftware Engineering & Platforms ManagerLeidos · Alexandria, VA

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Leidos's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

10.5% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Leidos postings stay open a median of 5 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.3%3 days
  3. 10.5%7 days
  4. 15.9%14 days
  5. 34.1%30 days
This job: posted yesterday

Leidos median: 5 days open

The posting

Join us in transforming how technology serves those who serve. At Leidos, we're not just delivering solutions – we're pioneering the future of defense and intelligence technology. Our diverse teams of innovators unite around a singular purpose: empowering our customers to succeed in their critical missions. We believe in leading with integrity, investing in our communities, and building sustainably for tomorrow.

Your opportunity to lead transformation. Leidos is seeking an experienced Software Engineering & Platforms Manager to lead software engineering, DevSecOps, data platforms, and enterprise automation initiatives supporting the United States Coast Guard's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center (C5ISC) in Alexandria, VA. In this role, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for developing, integrating, modernizing, and sustaining mission-critical software platforms and enterprise technology solutions. You will partner with government leadership, cross-functional technical teams, and industry partners to drive engineering excellence, accelerate digital modernization, strengthen platform capabilities, and deliver innovative, scalable solutions that support Coast Guard missions.

Ready to engineer solutions that matter?

The Software Engineering & Platforms Manager plays a central role in providing technical leadership, strategic direction, and delivery oversight across a diverse portfolio of software engineering and enterprise platforms. This role bridges technical execution, program management, and customer engagement, with accountability for engineering quality, operational performance, and successful delivery of mission-critical capabilities. Key responsibilities include leading multidisciplinary engineering teams; overseeing DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities, data engineering and integration platforms, and enterprise automation solutions; coordinating with technical partners; managing project schedules, resources, and technical risks; and driving continuous improvement, modernization, and workforce development.

Primary Duties:

  • Lead, coach, recruit, develop, and evaluate multidisciplinary teams of software/platform engineers, DevSecOps and site reliability engineers, data and integration specialists, automation engineers, and product or technical leads; establish clear accountability and succession depth.
  • Own integrated technical delivery across DevSecOps and Software Platforms (DSOP), Data Fabric, and Enterprise Automation (UiPath), aligning roadmaps, priorities, resources, schedules, dependencies, and outcomes with USCG stakeholders.
  • Provide credible hands-on technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, troubleshooting, technical tradeoff analysis, and quality assurance; guide secure, scalable, maintainable, mission-focused solutions.
  • Oversee DevSecOps engineering, CI/CD toolchains, GitLab and Atlassian ecosystems, code security, platform engineering, site reliability, and low-code application platform support including Appian.
  • Guide data platform and integration engineering spanning Databricks, Confluent and streaming services, Kong/API management, Qlik analytics, data pipelines, and data governance; ensure interoperability, security, and operational supportability.
  • Direct enterprise automation delivery, including UiPath platform operations, robotic process automation development, process automation, bot lifecycle management, infrastructure, and customer adoption.
  • Coordinate technical interfaces, integration dependencies, delivery expectations, and knowledge transfer with the Enlighten partner team supporting the COASTAL cyber data platform, application support, data integration, and mission analytics; do not assume direct personnel management of partner staff.
  • Partner with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Cybersecurity, PMO, government product owners, and external vendors to deliver secure solutions aligned to federal security requirements, DevSecOps practices, and operational handoff.
  • Manage integrated work plans, Agile backlogs, milestones, estimates, staffing capacity, technical risks, issue resolution, performance metrics, and delivery commitments; implement transparent reporting and corrective actions.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to USCG and Leidos leadership; present technical recommendations, architecture alternatives, status, tradeoffs, risks, and mitigation strategies to technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Oversee technical documentation, implementation plans, design artifacts, runbooks, governance decisions, and continuous-improvement efforts across the software and platform portfolio.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline (or equivalent relevant experience, subject to program requirements).
  • 8+ years of progressively responsible software, platform, DevSecOps, data, automation, or related engineering experience, including 3+ years supporting federal government contracts or programs.
  • 4+ years of direct technical people management or engineering leadership, including oversight of multidisciplinary teams and multiple concurrent delivery workstreams.
  • Strong technical depth in software/platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud-based systems, or enterprise integration, with ability to evaluate designs and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Experience delivering through Agile/DevSecOps practices and managing schedules, resources, backlogs, dependencies, quality, risks, and customer commitments.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, software security, APIs/integration patterns, cloud services (AWS and/or Azure), and operational sustainment.
  • Ability to lead specialists across diverse technology areas without being the primary hands-on administrator of every platform.
  • Excellent written, verbal, stakeholder-management, and executive briefing skills.

Clearance Requirement:

  • Current and active Public Trust, consistent with the existing USCG Cloud Modernization position requirements; ability to maintain required access.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting DHS, USCG, DoD, or similarly complex federal civilian modernization programs.
  • Experience managing teams of 10+ technical personnel, including technical leads, product managers, vendors, and subcontractor partners.
  • Practical familiarity with GitLab, Atlassian/Jira/Confluence, Appian, Databricks, Confluent, Kong, Qlik, and UiPath; deep expertise in every listed platform is not required.
  • Experience integrating enterprise data platforms, low-code platforms, automation capabilities, and secure cloud-native services.
  • Experience with NIST RMF, FISMA, ATO requirements, secure software delivery, and Zero Trust principles.
  • PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, AWS/Azure technical certification, or relevant DevSecOps, data, or automation credentials.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

October 16, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Leidos's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Leidos's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Leidos's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.