Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Selby Jennings; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to design and operate scalable AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring reliability and rapid software delivery. You will mentor SREs, drive automation, and collaborate across engineering and operations to optimize performance and cost.

The role emphasizes security, governance, and best practices in cloud environments, with a focus on incident response and resilient architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
• Advanced degree in CS or related discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of SREs (employees and contractors).
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Automate provisioning with Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for faster deployments.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Leadership

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Git

Datadog

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to design and operate scalable AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring reliability and rapid software delivery. You will mentor SREs, drive automation, and collaborate across engineering and operations to optimize performance and cost.

The role emphasizes security, governance, and best practices in cloud environments, with a focus on incident response and resilient architectures.