DevOps Lead

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at .

We are seeking a DevOps Lead to join our team and support our clients in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and viewed both internally and externally as a technical expert and critical technical resource across multiple disciplines.

*This position is contingent upon contract award.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines leveraging CMS-approved tools (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins) to support continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery
• Standardize pipeline design across all application components to ensure consistency, traceability, and repeatability
• Implement automated build, test, security scan, and deployment stages aligned with CMS Target Life Cycle (TLC) requirements
• Optimize pipeline performance to reduce build and deployment times while maintaining quality and compliance
• Enable parallel development and multi-release support, ensuring seamless handling of concurrent releases
• Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) to provision and manage AWS environments
• Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, auditable, and reproducible
• Establish automated environment provisioning processes for development, test, staging, and production environments
• Implement configuration management and environment consistency controls across all environments
• Support environment scaling, failover, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Collaborate with the System Architect to modernize infrastructure using AWS-native and serverless technologies where appropriate
• Ensure all deployments meet CMS security requirements (ARS, FISMA, HIPAA) prior to release
• Establish real-time alerting for system health, performance degradation, and failures
• Develop and maintain operational dashboards for system performance, availability, and pipeline metrics
• Support incident response by providing diagnostic tools, logs, and root cause analysis capabilities

Work Experience & Job skills:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles
• Minimum 5 years leading DevOps teams supporting enterprise-scale systems
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and monitoring
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience implementing automated testing frameworks (BDD, TDD, regression automation)
• Experience integrating security practices into CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps)
• Demonstrated experience supporting high-availability production systems with zero/low downtime deployments
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
• Experience supporting federal or regulated environments with compliance requirements
• AWS DevOps Engineer certification or equivalent (required or strongly preferred)
• Enthusiastic, proactive, positive attitude and high integrity.
• Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail and ability to effectively manage architectures supporting multiple users.
• Strong desire to mentor, coach team members while providing oversight for all aspects of relevant programs.
• Ability to think and act strategically and proactively approach projects and issues.
• Able to work under pressure and to be flexible with changing priorities.
• Able to find innovative ways to solve problems.
• A genuine interest in looking for opportunities to add value and grow your area of responsibility.

Education:

• Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is required

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• Relevant certifications or credentials are preferred

Communication Skills:

• Strong writing, listening and presentation skills.
• Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
• Experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

Travel:

• This position is primarily remote with occasional on-site meetings in the Washington DC - Baltimore Area

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
• May be required to lift to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets).