Remote Development Lead & Cloud Solution Architect

skyepointdecisionsinc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification incentive program

PTO

Floating federal holidays

Health insurance options

401k match

Job summary

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Development Lead/Solution Architect to join our team supporting the Department of Education's FSA CPSS in Washington, DC. This is a remote, contingent role based on contract win, requiring leadership of cloud, CI/CD, and security-focused engineering efforts.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, CISSP or equivalent, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, IaC, and AWS, with US citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Senior industry certification such as CISSP or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise CI/CD, cloud/platform automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and release automation.
• Experience with Git-based development, automated testing, security-tool integration, and AWS or comparable cloud environments.
• Ability to develop and maintain technical procedures, reusable automation, and platform documentation.
• Ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust and a Secret clearance is highly preferred; U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Engineer CI/CD workflows using customer's Atlassian Cloud, FSA GitLab, and NGDC AWS environment.
• Implement pipeline-as-code, reusable templates, automated quality gates, environment provisioning, configuration automation, and release controls.
• Integrate unit, integration, end-to-end, security, compliance, and infrastructure testing into delivery workflows.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and cloud deployment patterns that support portable and severable applications.
• Maintain pipeline tool inventories, code standards, reusable libraries, SOPs, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Support compliance with NIST SP 800-218, applicable OMB/CISA guidance, STIGs, and CIS standards.
• Provide platform troubleshooting, performance improvement, access support, and technical guidance to development and Government stakeholders.

Skills

CI/CD workflows

Cloud computing

Infrastructure as Code

Security testing

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

GitLab

Atlassian Jira/Confluence

AWS

Terraform / CloudFormation

Job description

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Development Lead/Solution Architect to join our team supporting the Department of Education's FSA CPSS in Washington, DC. This is a remote, contingent role based on contract win, requiring leadership of cloud, CI/CD, and security-focused engineering efforts.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, CISSP or equivalent, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, IaC, and AWS, with US citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.