DevOps Technical Team Lead, VP - State Street

OpenTalent; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide the technical direction and delivery of our Client CI/CD platform. You will blend hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding a small team while collaborating with clients, product owners, security teams, and stakeholders.

You will lead design and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, define scalable automation, and drive DevSecOps practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading or coordinating a software/DevOps team.
• 5+ years in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and cloud platforms.
• Azure experience preferred; strong security mindset.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
• Use LLM-based tools for automating reviews, risk analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including security testing and vulnerability scanning.
• Troubleshoot production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Lead technical estimation, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and solutions.
• Mentor a small development team and maintain technical docs and runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.

Skills

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Python

Java

SQL

GitHub Copilot/AI tools

DevSecOps

Security testing

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

CircleCI

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a Tech nical Team Lead to own the technical direction and delivery of our Client CI/CD platform. The platform enables customers to build, validate, and deploy CRIMS customizations to their dedicated SaaS-hosted environments.

You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a small development team while collaborating with clients, product owners, security teams, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
• Use LLM-based tools for automating reviewing proposed changes, identifying potential risks, and troubleshooting issues.
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including static and dynamic security testing, dependency and vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation workflows, penetration testing coordination, and secure release processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
• Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
• Work directly with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
• Lead and mentor a small development team.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, CircleCI, or other major CI/CD systems.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
• Proficiency using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses to improve engineering efficiency.
• Understanding of secure DevSecOps principles, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with a major public cloud provider; Azure experience is preferred.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to translate client requirements into technical designs, estimates, and prioritized delivery plans.