Mission-Critical DevOps Team Lead – OpenShift

Venator; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

401(k) with company matching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid military leave

Job summary

Venatôre is seeking an Operations DevOps Team Lead to guide a high‑performing DevOps and Operations team responsible for security, resilience, reliability, and sustainment of critical systems hosted in OpenShift.

This full‑time role is based onsite in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. Candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph to support government customers.

Qualifications

• Current and active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Willingness to obtain CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, STEM or related field.
• 7+ years leading operations/DevOps teams.
• 5+ years implementing DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements.
• 3+ years working with cloud technologies.
• IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+).
• Experience with Agile and SAFe environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication with users and government customers.
• Knowledge of containerization, monitoring, networking, and security.
• Experience with systems administration, troubleshooting, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a DevOps/Operations team across multi‑environment sustainment and support.
• Prioritize and distribute work to ensure timely issue resolution and reliability.
• Engage directly with users and government customers to communicate status and requirements.
• Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations.
• Maintain operational SOPs, SLAs, and system guides.
• Receive code from development teams and complete builds, hardening, and deployment automation.
• Support CI/CD workflows and security scans; enable IaC practices.
• Contribute scripting/automation to improve configuration and operations.
• Manage PKI certificates and DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements.
• Monitor performance and reliability across environments.
• Support monitoring, logging, networking, and security functions.

Skills

Security clearance

CI Polygraph

Bachelor's degree

Team leadership

Cloud technologies

DoD/IC cybersecurity

IAT Level II (Security+)

Agile/SAFe

Communication skills

Containerization/Monitoring

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Systems administration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/ STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitLab

ArgoCD

ServiceNow

Jira

Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible

Job description

Venatôre is seeking an Operations DevOps Team Lead to guide a high‑performing DevOps and Operations team responsible for security, resilience, reliability, and sustainment of critical systems hosted in OpenShift.

This full‑time role is based onsite in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. Candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph to support government customers.