Remote Chief DevSecOps Engineer, 24/7 Production Lead

Initiate Government Solutions, LLC.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Initiate Government Solutions is seeking a remote Chief DevOps Engineer to join our federal IT services team. You will lead 24x7x365 production systems, oversee a DevOps/operations team, drive CI/CD improvements, and ensure security, reliability, and performance across cloud-based environments.

The role is remote, contingent upon award, with travel as requested and the ability to obtain a Public Trust. You will work with AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, shaping modern DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Resource Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research or related fields.
• Substitutions: Certifications in relevant technology plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience may be substituted for education
• Expertise running a 24x7x365 Software based System for at least 6 months.
• Expertise with oversight of an operations team of at least 5 people for at least one year.
• Expertise in Incident Management for a software-based system.
• Expertise with oversight of a team running a trouble ticket system.
• Demonstrated success using modern DevOps methods and tools including automated testing tools and monitoring tools.
• Demonstrated ability to drive frequent release cycles (daily/weekly).
• Demonstrated expertise in Incident Management for a software-based production system.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing a team responsible for operating and managing a trouble-ticket system.
• Demonstrated success implementing and using modern DevOps methods and tools, including automated testing and system/application monitoring tools.
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and operational leadership for 24x7x365 production software systems, ensuring system availability, reliability, performance, and security.
• Lead and oversee a DevOps/operations team responsible for production support, deployment, monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and system maintenance.
• Lead Incident Management activities for software-based systems, including incident identification, triage, escalation, resolution, communication, and post-incident analysis.
• Oversee the operation and administration of a trouble-ticket management system, ensuring tickets are appropriately prioritized, assigned, tracked, escalated, resolved, and documented.
• Develop and maintain incident response procedures, escalation processes, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and operational documentation.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent application releases.
• Drive daily and/or weekly release cycles while maintaining appropriate testing, security, quality, and operational controls.
• Implement and optimize automated build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and validation processes.
• Utilize modern DevOps and DevSecOps tools and practices, including source control, continuous integration, continuous delivery/deployment, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Participate in production readiness reviews, architecture reviews, change management activities, and release planning.
• Support security, compliance, and operational requirements throughout the system lifecycle.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

DevOps leadership

Incident management

CI/CD experience

Team leadership

Automation focus

Cloud orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CodePipeline

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Initiate Government Solutions is seeking a remote Chief DevOps Engineer to join our federal IT services team. You will lead 24x7x365 production systems, oversee a DevOps/operations team, drive CI/CD improvements, and ensure security, reliability, and performance across cloud-based environments.

The role is remote, contingent upon award, with travel as requested and the ability to obtain a Public Trust. You will work with AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, shaping modern DevSecOps practices.