DevOps Engineer Senior, Team Lead

Overview

Dev Ops Team Lead – a key personnel role that blends cloud engineering expertise, operational rigor, and leadership. This position builds resilient systems, ensures operational excellence, and maintains secure, compliant environments  focus is on reliability and performance of critical systems hosted in Open Shift, supporting an intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO.

• Lead the Dev Ops team in supporting customer system operations, sustainment, maintenance, and user support across multiple environments and security enclaves.
• Direct and manage investigation and resolution of customer issues, system discrepancies, and maintenance activities.
• Coordinate 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).
• Build system hardening and automated testing pipelines, including security scans.
• Audit and document system security; collaborate with development to ensure compliance.
• Author Helm charts to deploy systems to multiple Open Shift environments (Dev & Ops).
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration management.
• Manage system‑level PKI certifications, including NPEs, across all environments.
• Design, implement, and monitor user and system metrics for all environments.

• 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.
• 5+ years of experience with DoW and ICD Cyber Security Requirements and implementation.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud services.
• Current Security+ certification.
• Experience with agile development teams utilizing SAFe.
• Experience in technical documentation creation and updates.
• Knowledge of containerization, monitoring & logging, and network & security.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Open Shift.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, ArgoCD, or similar).
• Experience with Service+ and Jira for issue tracking.
• Basic networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
• Comfortable using Python and Bash to create system tooling.
• Experience in system engineering, project management, and integrating security components.

• 5+ years with geospatial information system operations and sustainment.
• 5+ years with application software operations and sustainment.
• Current CISSP or CISM certification.
• Knowledge of GA enterprise products.
• Experience in designing and modifying enterprise‑wide cloud solutions.
• Skills in developing, testing, and debugging complex software products.
• Strong research and analytical skills for emerging technologies and product supportability.
• Ability to manage storage capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements.
• Experience preparing analytical reports and presenting to management or customers.
• Familiarity with configuration management and request for change processes.

On‑site. US citizenship required.