DevOps Engineer Senior, Team Lead

Job Title DevOps Team Lead Job Description DevOps Team Lead, a key personnel role, requires a unique blend of cloud engineering expertise, operational rigor, and leadership. The incumbent will build resilient systems, ensure operational excellence, and maintain secure, compliant environments at scale for critical systems hosted in OpenShift. The role supports our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO. Responsibilities Lead the implementation of resilient cloud architecture, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and proactive monitoring to meet stringent performance, compliance, and security requirements of public sector operations. Lead DevOps team to support customer system operations, sustainment, maintenance, and customer/user support across multiple environments and security enclaves. Direct and manage the DevOps team in investigating and resolving customer issues, system discrepancies, and other maintenance activities. Coordinate and perform software problem analysis, modification testing, system, and security administration. Create, maintain, and update documentation related to operations, sustainment, maintenance, and customer support (SLAs, SOPs, etc.). Receive code from development team for system builds and hardening; perform automated testing and security scans. Manage and document system security and collaborate with Development to ensure security compliance. Author helm charts to deploy systems to multiple OpenShift environments (Dev & Ops). Manage Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management. Oversee PKI certifications, including NPEs, in all system environments. Design, implement, and monitor user and system metrics across all environments based on customer requirements. Required Qualifications TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph. Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or STEM field. 7+ years of experience leading a team in system sustainment, administration, security, integration, and testing on a program or project across multiple environments. 5+ years of experience with DoD and ICD Cyber Security Requirements and implementation. 3+ years of cloud services experience. Current Security+ certification. Experience working with an Agile Development team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Experience providing input to technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, and training materials. Knowledge of containerization, monitoring & logging, and network & security. Desired Qualifications 5+ years of experience with geospatial information system operations and sustainment. 5+ years of experience in application software operations and sustainment. Current CISSP or CISM certification. Familiarity with configuration management and Request for Change process. Experience delivering integrated software development solutions. Experience in system engineering and project management. Knowledge and/or experience with NGA enterprise products. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ArgoCD, or similar). Experience with Service+ and Jira to track user issues and development stories. Understanding of basic networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing). Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift. Deep knowledge of enterprise solution principles and methods. Experience designing, developing, or modifying enterprise-wide cloud solutions or application software. Proficiency in Python and BASH for system tooling. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet. Capability to manage storage capacity, processing speed, and I/O requirements. Ability to prepare reports, analyses, and present results to management or customers. Location & Compensation Work Location: St. Louis, MO (United States). Salary range: $140,250 - $189,750, based on experience, geographic location, and contractual requirements. Work Hours & Travel Scheduled weekly hours: 40. Travel required: None. Telecommuting options: Onsite. Benefits Our benefits package for U.S.-based employees includes medical plan options (some with Health Savings Accounts), dental plan options, vision plan, and a 401(k) plan with pre- and post-tax contributions and company match. Additional benefits include full flex work weeks where possible, paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, holidays, parental, military, bereavement, jury duty), short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death & dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance. Equal Opportunity Employer Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans #J-18808-Ljbffr SwiftCruit