Director of DevSecOps & Platform Engineering (Remote)

PhoenixTeam

Arlington (VA)

Remote

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

PhoenixTeam is hiring a Director of DevSecOps & Platform Engineering to lead a 30+ person team across the VA Loan Guaranty program. The role oversees staffing, budgets, and delivery performance for secure, reliable production services in a 24/7 environment.

The ideal candidate brings senior management experience with extensive DevSecOps and platform engineering expertise, and will interact with federal customers, architecture reviews, and major incidents. Remote US work is supported.

Qualifications

15+ years in DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, software engineering, production operations, or closely related tech disciplines.
8+ years of engineering or technical leadership.
Established senior management responsibility across multiple technical teams, including staffing, budgets, and delivery outcomes.
Hands-on background designing and operating CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, and integrated security controls.

Responsibilities

Lead workforce planning, hiring, performance management, coaching, and resource allocation across the DevSecOps and platform engineering team.
Manage assigned operating budgets and cost forecasts against staffing needs, service obligations, and delivery commitments.
Present staffing, financial, and operational performance to federal customers and PhoenixTeam leadership, including deployment frequency, release quality, incident trends, recovery times, and manual engineering effort.
Direct CI/CD architecture, automated testing, and security and quality gates against the program's target of build, test, and deployment pipeline execution in under one hour.
Own production availability against contractual service targets, including incident and problem management, root-cause remediation, capacity and performance management, and tested disaster recovery.
Oversee monitoring across infrastructure, applications, interfaces, batch jobs, and end‑to‑end business transactions to detect and diagnose failures before customers report them.
Direct AI‑assisted engineering workflows for diagnostics, testing, vulnerability analysis, documentation, and developer self‑service within approved federal boundaries.