Staff DevOps Engineer

With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule, and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit.

A Staff DevOps Engineer shapes the long-term technical strategy of the program, representing the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution while communicating tradeoffs.

You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps processes and practices across teams.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building, and to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services across multiple teams or programs
• Serves as a mentor to individuals across the team and an emerging people leader, exhibiting high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment
• Leads critical or cross-cutting team structures and projects
• Presents on technical topics effectively to clients, stakeholders, partners, and engineers, articulating implementation complexity and cost tradeoffs to inform business decisions
• Guides self-directed cloud infrastructure and pipeline design decisions made by others, weighing cost, reliability, and efficiency tradeoffs at a program level
• Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure, providing expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaaC tooling
• Sets direction for libraries, modules, and packages that other infrastructure engineers build and integrate with across projects
• Ensures processes and design provide robust defense-in-depth through security best practices and that systems align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO
• Establishes and evolves CI/CD strategy — beyond building individual pipelines — to help the broader organization deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Ensures tooling is integrated to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis across programs
• Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services
• Actively participates in, and often leads, conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders
• Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
• Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities
• Proactively works with government partners and app teams to ensure software shipped across the program meets security, SLA, and performance requirements
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and project history for bid-writing, tech demos, and other client-facing communications
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates, often shaping the technical bar for the discipline