Senior DevOps Technical Lead - Hybrid (Must be Sacramento local candidate)

SLED IT Solutions Inc; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SLED IT Solutions Inc is seeking a Senior DevOps Technical Lead to provide hands-on leadership for the design, implementation, governance, and continuous improvement of an enterprise DevSecOps platform and CI/CD ecosystem across cloud and on-prem environments.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you will independently own initiatives, lead DevOps resources, resolve complex issues, and collaborate across application, cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams from

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years as DevOps Engineer or Tech Lead in enterprise environments.
• Minimum 4 years leading CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments.
• Experience building, packaging, deploying Docker containers in dev/prod.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines including canaries, gating, and failed deployments.
• Experience scripting (PowerShell/Bash) and coding in an OOP language.
• Experience documenting architecture and technical diagrams.
• Experience deploying microservices to production cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes).
• Experience security automation in NIST/FedRAMP environments.
• Experience agile ceremonies and basic project management.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership for design, implementation, governance, and improvement of an enterprise DevSecOps platform and CI/CD ecosystem.
• Lead DevOps initiatives across cloud and on-prem environments; set engineering standards and security controls.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams through design to production deployment.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PowerShell/Bash

Scripting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

The Senior DevOps Technical Lead will provide hands‑on technical leadership for the design, implementation, administration, governance, and continuous improvement of an enterprise DevSecOps platform and CI/CD ecosystem. The role leads DevOps initiatives across cloud and on-premises environments, provides architectural and technical direction, establishes engineering standards, integrates security and quality controls, and guides solutions from design through production deployment.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. The resource is expected to independently own technical initiatives, lead DevOps resources, resolve complex implementation issues, and collaborate with application, cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams.

***The Candidate shall meet the qualifications below:

• The proposed Business Solution Analyst must meet the following mandatory qualifications:
• A minimum of six (6) FTE years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Technical Lead for large-scale implementations or systems integration efforts in enterprise environments.
• A minimum of four (4) FTE years of experience leading teams to implement CI/CD pipelines in development and production environments, deploying highly available solutions to cloud platforms.
• A minimum of six (6) FTE years of experience developing, packaging, and deploying Docker containers in development and production environments, including at least three (3) years in a technical lead role.
• A minimum of six (6) FTE years of experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, including tasks such as canary deployments, gating, managing failed deployments, and pipeline optimization, with at least three (3) years in a technical lead role.
• A minimum of six (6) FTE years of experience coding, including at least three (3) years with a scripting language (e.g., PowerShell or Bash), two (2) years with Terraform, and one (1) year with an object‑oriented programming (OOP) language.
• A minimum of six (6) FTE years of experience authoring and maintaining technical documentation and architectural diagrams.
• A minimum of four (4) FTE years of experience deploying microservices‑based applications to production cloud infrastructure, including at least three (3) years deploying to Kubernetes.
• A minimum of two (2) FTE years of experience setting up and maintaining security automation and controls in NIST and FedRAMP‑compliant environments.
• A minimum of four (4) FTE years of experience leading and managing DevOps projects from inception to deployment, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategies and objectives.
• A minimum of four (4) FTE years of experience facilitating agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• A minimum of four (4) FTE years of experience performing basic project management tasks including scheduling, resource allocation, and risk management.
• A *Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology (IT), or Engineering field. (Pass/Fail) Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year‑for‑year basis.
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Technical Lead for large‑scale implementations or systems integration efforts in enterprise environments.
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience leading teams to implement CI/CD pipelines in development and production environments, deploying highly available solutions to cloud platforms.
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience developing, packaging, and deploying Docker containers in development and production environments, including at least three (3) years in a technical lead role.
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, including tasks such as canary deployments, gating, managing failed deployments, and pipeline optimization, with at least four (4) years in a technical lead role..
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience coding, including at least four (4) years with a scripting language (e.g., PowerShell or Bash), three (3) years with Terraform, and two (2) year with an object‑oriented programming (OOP) language.
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience authoring and maintaining technical documentation and architectural diagrams.
• Eight (8) FTE years of experience deploying microservices‑based applications to production cloud infrastructure, including at least four (4) years deploying to Kubernetes.
• Four (4) FTE years of experience setting up and maintaining security automation and controls in NIST and FedRAMP‑compliant environments.
• Six (6) FTE years of experience leading and managing DevOps projects from inception to deployment, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategies and objectives.
• Six (6) FTE years of experience facilitating agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Six (6) FTE years of experience performing basic project management tasks including scheduling, resource allocation, and risk management
• Possession of a *Master’s degree in Business Administration, IT, or Engineering field.
• Three (3) FTE years of experience building Cloud infrastructure and Networking using Terraform , VPC, Security Groups, etc. on AWS Cloud
• Two (2) FTE years of experience administering and managing GitHub, GitHub Actions.
• Three (3) FTE years of experience implementing pipelines following GitOps principles to deploy to Kubernetes using Helm and ArgoCD
• Two (2) FTE years of experience building continuous monitoring using monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
• Two (2) FTE years of experience in managing and deploying serverless architectures in AWS.
• Three (3) FTE years of experience working on Cloud Security with Cognito, Azure AD, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML

Education shall be Masters:

A *Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology (IT), or Engineering field. (Pass/Fail) Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year‑for‑year basis.

Possession of a *Master’s degree in Business Administration, IT, or Engineering field.

Required Skills/certs:

• Possesses one or more of the below certifications:

a. AWS Architect Professional

Preferred Education:

• Possession of a *Master’s degree in Business Administration, IT, or Engineering field.

This is a C2C Contract Role. Hybrid Model.

Please review the qualifications carefully.