Remote Senior Engineering Lead - Cloud, DevSecOps & Reliability

Unissant; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineering Lead to drive engineering operations, CI/CD governance, and DevSecOps across a large federal IT services program.

This hands-on leadership role partners with government stakeholders, architects, and operations teams to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery. The ideal candidate brings senior engineering leadership experience on federal programs, deep cloud-native and automation expertise, and a proven track record in release

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA/Master's preferred.
• Experience leading senior engineering leadership roles on federal IT services programs.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native development, CI/CD, DevSecOps, testing, release management.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering operating model and governance across delivery teams.
• Define and enforce CI/CD pipeline standards and release-readiness requirements.
• Develop and maintain SLO/SLI frameworks and reliability dashboards.
• Mentor engineering leads and developers; drive security, compliance, and automation.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Observability

SRE

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineering Lead to drive engineering operations, CI/CD governance, and DevSecOps across a large federal IT services program.

This hands-on leadership role partners with government stakeholders, architects, and operations teams to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery. The ideal candidate brings senior engineering leadership experience on federal programs, deep cloud-native and automation expertise, and a proven track record in release