Lead DevOps Engineer (Federal IT)

Lead DevOps Engineer

Tria Federal prides itself in leading the charge for innovation and transformation in the federal government space. We offer technological implementations and build customer-centric services that are simple, intuitive, and usable across multiple industries. By partnering with federal agencies, our specialized digital services are reimagining and reshaping the digital landscape to bring positive change for millions of Americans.

At Tria, we are a dynamic professional community driven by a mission rooted in service to colleagues, customers, and the community. Tria invests in its employees with a top-tier benefits package to support their physical, mental, and financial well-being.

Job Description: 

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineers with strong AWS, Terraform, Linux/Windows, and Containerization experience who will be part of a collaborative and agile team that supports and delivers virtual infrastructure for mission-critical health IT solutions. The candidate must have a previous role as a lead or team lead with at least 2 direct reports.   This is a 100% remote opportunity, however there may be instances where you would need to be onsite in Woodlawn, MD for a client meeting.

Basic Requirements:  

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation. 

• Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States. 

• Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years. 

·        Bachelor's degree is required. 

·        Lead level experience with at least 8+ years of overall experience in all the required skills. 

·        6 or more years of experience working with agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence.  

·        8 or more years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as terraform. 

Additional Qualifications: 

·        Someone with experience with tools such as Jenkins to enable CI/CD.

·        Recent hands-on experience with AWS. 

·        Solid understanding of Linux Systems (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux), hosts, networks, security, applications, and proficiency in shell scripting.  

·        Strong experience with containerization, particularly with ECS and EKS. 

·        Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture.

·        Solid understanding and proven experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Jenkins, Terraform, Containerization.  

·        Believes in automation for consistent, scalable and fool-proof delivery of infrastructure and applications. 

·        Support production issues/high severity issues on weekends or off hours as required. 

·        Experience managing and mentoring staff, managing expectations and prioritization of work. 

·        Ability to balance many priorities and directions at once and keep the team focused and on schedule. 

·        Experience working day to day tasks while also innovating to make sure the team not only supports the program but actively innovates to make it better. 

·        Experience in working as DevOps leader focusing on CI/CD and CM tools and modern frameworks in the eco-system.  

·        Solid hands-on experience with working on AWS.   

·        Experience with serverless resources such as lambda, API-gateway, CloudFront.

·        Solid expertise troubleshooting and managing Linux systems. Hands-on experience in using Ansible or python. 

·        Candidates with proven certifications and socially accessible profiles that demonstrate the body of work and participation in modern collaboration hubs.  

·        A great team player and genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team. 

·        Willing to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly.  

·        Explores alternatives and quickly prototyping to validate hypothetical architectures or solutions.  

·        Good understanding of the core tenets of agile both in letter and spirit.   

·        Experience communicating with customers, specifically in the public sector. 

·        Desires to continuously learn and invest time expanding credentials relevant to role and customers. 

·        Demonstrated ability come up with System designs, architecture, process flows and Concept of Operations for large complex systems. 

·        Should have an AWS Professional certification or be ready to obtain a certification within 60 days from the date of joining. 

·        Knowledge of Healthcare, Medicare and Medicaid systems and data is a plus. 

·        Please provide any code in GitHub or such that you have worked on personally or in the open-source community. 

Responsibilities: 

·        Expectations as a People Manager: 

·        Use our company’s cloud-based performance management software updates function to get weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly updates from each direct report.  

·        Manage Team availability on your program 

·        Enforce the Cloud Practice SOP (standard operating procedures). 

·        Be the example by modeling what you want from your Staff 

·        Work Jira tickets; at least 75% of your job is to be technically hands-on. 

·        Help your staff grow; pick someone on the team to mentor and assign staff to mentor other staff. 

·        Expectations and Responsibilities to the Program/Product: 

·        Be available for all customer calls 

·        Follow up throughout the day and week with your staff to make sure everything is going well, and tasks are getting completed in a timely manner, address injections as they arise. 

·        Make sure all work has a Jira ticket assigned to it 

·        Make sure all work you and your staff does is well documented, and PRs/Commits are attached to Jira tickets 

·        Uphold the Customer SLA, remember as people managers we are responsible for the work and performance of those who report to us. 

·        Respond to emails and slack messages quickly, if you're in a meeting, have slack represent that and check your messages as soon as it's over. 

·        Have a reoccurring productive and meaningful standup, record it, make sure everyone attends. 

·        Represent your team to the customer.

·        Expectations and Responsibilities to the Practice: 

·        Report performance issues to the practice leadership as soon as they happen 

·        Make sure all staff are on any all hands calls. 

·        Report all good news and wins back to the practice 

·        Report program issues, failures immediately to practice leadership 

·        Contribute and help other teams and encourage your staff to do the same. 

·        Share your work with the practice 

·        Help grow and mature the practice 

Public Trust Clearance:

Many of our roles require the hired candidate to go through public trust clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is required to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.

Work Location:

Headquartered in Arlington, VA, we also have a primary office in Baltimore, MD for those who prefer to work on-site. However, with employees spread across 40+ states, we have many remote roles.

Why Tria?
What defines the Tria brand is more than just our dedication to excellence in our craft; it’s our incredible team of dedicated, talented, and passionate people that make Tria so exceptional. As people powering possible, we are all partners in our team’s shared success.
As a company that cares about people, we seek to cultivate a culture in which all can thrive personally and professionally. We offer a top-tier benefits package to invest in your physical, mental, and financial health and wellness so that you can be your best self - at work and in life. At Tria, we are growth-minded, entrepreneurial in spirit, and committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and opportunity for all. Whatever your background, your role, your department, or stage in your professional journey, here you will have opportunities to learn new skills, seize new challenges, and advance your career as we grow