Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Lead (AWS/Kubernetes)

Leading Path Consulting; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical premiums

PTO

Holidays

401K

Tuition reimbursement

SPOT bonuses

Team events

Career growth

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting seeks an Infrastructure DevOps Lead to design and implement complex cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions. You will be a hands-on technical leader with AWS expertise, IaC, and container orchestration to build scalable platforms.

In an Agile environment, you will mentor a DevOps team, drive security hardening, migrations to AWS, and continuous deployment pipelines, shaping architecture and collaborating with stakeholders to meet enterprise needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum eight years of experience leading development and implementation of complex infrastructure and DevOps solutions using Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile team using Kanban to deliver infrastructure and DevOps solutions.
• Provide hands-on leadership in cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment strategies.
• Guide technical direction using infrastructure as code principles and best practices.
• Navigate security processes and accreditation requirements with the customer to ensure compliance.
• Harden AWS environments and architectures to meet security and operational requirements.
• Mentor and manage a team of DevOps engineers; foster collaboration.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to map requirements and deployments tasks.
• Work with development teams to align infrastructure with application needs.
• Lead cloud migration efforts from on-premises to AWS.
• Manage Kubernetes orchestration platforms (EKS preferred).
• Deploy and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Kanban

Cloud migrations

Infrastructure automation

Leadership

Security hardening

Architecture reviews

Collaboration with dev teams

DevOps best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Computer Engineering or related

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

Linux

Job description

Leading Path Consulting seeks an Infrastructure DevOps Lead to design and implement complex cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions. You will be a hands-on technical leader with AWS expertise, IaC, and container orchestration to build scalable platforms.

In an Agile environment, you will mentor a DevOps team, drive security hardening, migrations to AWS, and continuous deployment pipelines, shaping architecture and collaborating with stakeholders to meet enterprise needs.