Principal Engineering Lead - DevSecOps & Reliability

Blueprint Technologies; Washington; Remote; USD 174,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

FSA

Paid time off

Parental leave

Professional growth

Job summary

Blueprint Technologies seeks a Principal Engineering Lead to establish and guide engineering operating standards across a complex federal healthcare delivery program.

The role will improve how teams build, release, operate, and support reliable services at scale, collaborating with engineering, product, security, platform, operations, and program leaders to create consistent practices across the delivery model.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering operations, platform engineering, SRE, DevSecOps, or large-scale software delivery.
• Experience establishing engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, release governance, and production operations.
• Experience defining service-level objectives, service-level indicators, operational readiness criteria, and reliability practices.
• Experience integrating security and compliance into engineering and delivery processes.
• Ability to align engineering, product, security, platform, operations, and program stakeholders around shared standards.
• Ability to communicate complex engineering concepts and operational risks clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience operating at a principal, enterprise, or program leadership level.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead engineering operations standards across teams and delivery workstreams.
• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and release governance practices that support secure and reliable delivery.
• Develop and maintain a consistent framework for service-level objectives and service-level indicators.
• Define operational readiness criteria for new services, releases, and significant production changes.
• Advance DevSecOps practices by integrating security, quality, automation, and operational controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Set reliability expectations and guide teams in improving service performance, resilience, observability, and recoverability.
• Coordinate engineering standards across application, platform, security, and operations teams.
• Identify systemic delivery and reliability risks and lead cross-team resolution efforts.
• Use operational and delivery metrics to evaluate performance, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement.
• Communicate engineering standards, decisions, risks, and progress to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Participate in proposal-related oral presentation preparation and presentation activities as required for this key personnel role.

Skills

Engineering leadership

DevSecOps

Platform engineering

SRE

CI/CD

Security compliance

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Blueprint Technologies seeks a Principal Engineering Lead to establish and guide engineering operating standards across a complex federal healthcare delivery program.

The role will improve how teams build, release, operate, and support reliable services at scale, collaborating with engineering, product, security, platform, operations, and program leaders to create consistent practices across the delivery model.