Operations DevOps Team Lead: Secure OpenShift & Leadership

Venator; Missouri; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) with company matching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid military leave

Job summary

Venatôre seeks an Operations DevOps Team Lead to guide a high-performing DevOps and Operations team. You will ensure security, resilience, reliability, and sustainment of critical systems hosted in OpenShift. The role blends hands-on operations with team leadership, customer engagement, and deployment automation.

The position is full-time, based onsite in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO, with clearance requirements including TS/SCI and CI Polygraph.

Qualifications

• Current and active TS/SCI clearance.
• Willingness and ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, a STEM field, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience leading teams in operations, sustainment, administration, security, or integration.
• 5+ years of experience implementing DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements.
• 3+ years of experience working with cloud technologies.
• Minimum IAT Level II certification, such as Security+.
• Experience supporting Agile and/or SAFe environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with users and government customers.
• Knowledge of containerization, monitoring, logging, networking, and security.
• Experience with systems administration, troubleshooting, testing, and operational support.

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 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 SOPs, SLAs, and system guides.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

CI Polygraph

Team leadership

Cloud technologies

Agile/SAFe

Communication

Security operations

Systems administration

Scripting (Python/Bash)

DevOps coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or STEM

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GitLab

ArgoCD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jira/ServiceNow

Job description

Venatôre seeks an Operations DevOps Team Lead to guide a high-performing DevOps and Operations team. You will ensure security, resilience, reliability, and sustainment of critical systems hosted in OpenShift. The role blends hands-on operations with team leadership, customer engagement, and deployment automation.

The position is full-time, based onsite in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO, with clearance requirements including TS/SCI and CI Polygraph.