Mission-Critical Ops & DevOps Lead – OpenShift

Venatore Llc; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; 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. You will oversee security, resilience, and sustainment of systems hosted in OpenShift, with hands-on operations and leadership responsibilities.

The role requires on-site work at client sites in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO, and a current TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph. Build strong relationships with government customers while delivering reliable mission outcomes.

Qualifications

• Current and active TS/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an Operations/DevOps team supporting multi-environment system sustainment, administration, maintenance, and user support.
• Prioritize and distribute work across the team to support timely issue resolution and operational excellence.
• Collaborate directly with users and government customers to understand requirements, communicate system status, and support mission outcomes.
• Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations.
• Maintain and update operational documentation, including SOPs, SLAs, and system guides.
• Receive code from development teams and complete system builds, hardening, configuration, and deployment automation.
• Support and enhance CI/CD deployment workflows and associated security scans.
• Support IaC practices.
• Contribute scripting and automation to improve deployment and operations.
• Manage PKI certificates, configurations, and compliance.
• Help sustain DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements.
• Ensure secure, reliable systems across environments.
• Design and monitor metrics for reliability and readiness.
• Support monitoring, logging, networking, containerization, and security functions.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

CI Polygraph

Team leadership

DoD/IC cybersecurity

Cloud technologies

IAT Level II

Agile/SAFe experience

Communication skills

Kubernetes/OpenShift knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitLab

ArgoCD

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

Venatôre is seeking an Operations DevOps Team Lead to guide a high-performing DevOps and Operations team. You will oversee security, resilience, and sustainment of systems hosted in OpenShift, with hands-on operations and leadership responsibilities.

The role requires on-site work at client sites in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO, and a current TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph. Build strong relationships with government customers while delivering reliable mission outcomes.