DevOps Engineer

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at

We are seeking a Dev Ops Lead to join our team and support our clients in the Washington DC-Baltimore area
. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and viewed both internally and externally as a technical expert and critical technical resource across multiple disciplines.

• Architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines leveraging CMS-approved tools (e.g., Git Hub, Jenkins) to support continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery
• Standardize pipeline design across all application components to ensure consistency, traceability, and repeatability
• Implement automated build, test, security scan, and deployment stages aligned with CMS Target Life Cycle (TLC) requirements
• Optimize pipeline performance to reduce build and deployment times while maintaining quality and compliance
• Enable parallel development and multi-release support, ensuring seamless handling of concurrent releases
• Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation) to provision and manage AWS environments
• Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, auditable, and reproducible
• Establish automated environment provisioning processes for development, test, staging, and production environments
• Implement configuration management and environment consistency controls across all environments
• Support environment scaling, failover, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Collaborate with the System Architect to modernize infrastructure using AWS-native and serverless technologies where appropriate
• Ensure all deployments meet CMS security requirements (ARS, FISMA, HIPAA) prior to release
• Establish real-time alerting for system health, performance degradation, and failures
• Develop and maintain operational dashboards for system performance, availability, and pipeline metrics
• Support incident response by providing diagnostic tools, logs, and root cause analysis capabilities

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software engineering, Dev Ops, or cloud engineering roles
• Minimum 5 years leading Dev Ops teams supporting enterprise-scale systems
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or equivalent
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and monitoring
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience implementing automated testing frameworks (BDD, TDD, regression automation)
• Experience integrating security practices into CI/CD pipelines (Dev Sec Ops )
• Demonstrated experience supporting high‑availability production systems with zero/low downtime deployments
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
• Experience supporting federal or regulated environments with compliance requirements
• AWS Dev Ops Engineer certification or equivalent (required or strongly preferred)
• Enthusiastic, proactive, positive attitude and high integrity.
• Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail and ability to effectively manage architectures supporting multiple users.
• Strong desire to mentor, coach team members while providing oversight for all aspects of relevant programs.
• Ability to think and act strategically and proactively approach projects and issues.
• Able to work under pressure and to be flexible with changing priorities.
• Able to find innovative ways to solve problems.
• A genuine interest in looking for opportunities to add value and grow your area of responsibility.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is required

• Relevant certifications or credentials are preferred

• Strong writing, listening and presentation skills.
• Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
• Experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

• This is a remote position.

• Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
• May be required to lift to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours.

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