Senior DevOps Lead — Cloud, CI/CD & Identity

GCH Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 165,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending and health savings

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

GCH Technologies in Washington, DC seeks an experienced DevOps Prime to own and oversee the DevOps function across our platform portfolio: the US Short Code Registry (SCR), Universal Business Identity (UBID), and Rich Business Messaging (RBM). This senior role oversees contracted DevOps resources and is accountable for cloud health, reliability, and security.

The role sets technical direction, ensures vendor standards, and serves as the single point of ownership for CI/CD, cloud infra,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering.
• Experience directing or overseeing DevOps work performed by external or offshore contractors and vendors.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including IAM, VPC networking, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, and cost management.
• Demonstrated experience managing customer-facing IdP integrations using SAML and OIDC, including enterprise federation onboarding.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code background (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation or Pulumi acceptable).
• Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines at scale
• Experience supporting production systems with observability, incident response, and reliability best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical direction to DevOps resources at external partners, ensuring alignment with GCH standards.
• Define scopes of work, deliverables, and acceptance criteria for vendor-led infrastructure and DevOps initiatives.
• Review vendor work product (Terraform, pipelines, runbooks, IaC modules) for quality and adherence to conventions before production.
• Track contractor utilization and output, surfacing issues to engineering leadership.
• Serve as the primary GCH-side counterpart for partner DevOps leads, owning the relationship and escalation path.
• Own the GCH AWS footprint across product lines, including API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, and cost management.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (Terraform)

Vendor management

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

CloudWatch

Job description

GCH Technologies in Washington, DC seeks an experienced DevOps Prime to own and oversee the DevOps function across our platform portfolio: the US Short Code Registry (SCR), Universal Business Identity (UBID), and Rich Business Messaging (RBM). This senior role oversees contracted DevOps resources and is accountable for cloud health, reliability, and security.

The role sets technical direction, ensures vendor standards, and serves as the single point of ownership for CI/CD, cloud infra,