DevOps Lead – Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Act as the designated Key Personnel for an upcoming federal health agency initiative providing enterprise DevSecOps platform services.

• Take ownership of the technical architecture and security posture for managed DevSecOps platforms and supporting AWS infrastructure across development, testing, implementation, and production accounts.

• Develop standardized operating procedures for provisioning, identity management, backup and restore, observability, and security measures.

• Define and uphold Terraform Infrastructure as Code standards, including versioned module catalogs, drift detection, and remediation practices.

• Implement policy-as-code preventive controls and GitOps workflows for Kubernetes-based services.

• Maintain continuous Authority to Operate and security documentation within the client's compliance repository.

• Apply compliance-as-code and documentation-as-code methodologies for continuous evidence, scan results, baselines, and SBOM generation.

• Assist in security control assessments, security impact analyses, penetration testing, and the upkeep of necessary security plans.

• Manage artifact repositories and binary analysis platforms, encompassing segregation, retention, quotas, scanning, and remediation workflows.

• Design observability architecture for application performance monitoring, centralized logging, OpenTelemetry, metrics, and dashboards.

• Establish Site Reliability Engineering practices, including SLI/SLO definitions, error budgets, toil reduction strategies, and capacity planning.

• Create and maintain disaster recovery playbooks, failover/failback procedures, recovery drills, and validation of RTO/RPO.

• Implement Zero Trust strategies, including network segmentation, identity-aware access, least-privilege roles, and secrets rotation.

• Lead FinOps and cost optimization initiatives, including tagging, rightsizing, discounted pricing coverage, scheduling, anomaly detection, and cost reporting.

• Maintain architecture documentation as code, including ADRs, C4 diagrams, and API contracts.

• Serve as the technical liaison to the independent quality assurance contractor and client security officers.

• Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation and spearhead quarterly resilience and security exercises.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive AWS architecture experience in a multi-account context, including VPC and network design, IAM boundary design, and account segmentation across environments.

• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform, encompassing modular design, state governance, remote backends, and drift detection at an organizational scale.

• Strong experience in Kubernetes architecture, preferably with AWS EKS, including workload design, Helm, and container security practices.

• Proven track record of managing security compliance for a federal system boundary, including maintaining or supporting an Authority to Operate and related documentation.

• Practical experience with artifact management and binary analysis platforms, preferably JFrog Artifactory and Xray.

• Hands-on experience with observability architecture covering metrics, logs, and traces, including OpenTelemetry and at least one enterprise application performance monitoring platform.

• Demonstrated Site Reliability Engineering practice, including defining service level indicators and objectives while operating against error budgets.

• Experience in designing and testing disaster recovery and backup strategies with validated recovery time and recovery point objectives.

• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization practices, including tagging governance, rightsizing, and utilization-driven decision-making.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

• Additional directly relevant experience may be considered in place of a degree.

• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering, with at least four (4) years in an architecture or technical lead role.

• At least three (3) years of experience supporting federal systems subject to FISMA and Authority to Operate requirements.

• Candidates must be able to provide a resume suitable for submission as designated Key Personnel.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

• Highly organized with the capability to prioritize, balance, and effectively manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to interact professionally and collaboratively with fellow Dynanet teammates, clients, and business partners.

• Willingness and desire to challenge and enhance your own knowledge to support and advance IT service delivery in the Federal agencies served.

• Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills.

• Respond to requests from team members and clients via email, MS Teams, or other communication methods during core business hours.

• Strong active listening and collaboration skills.

• Preferred: prior architecture ownership experience within a federal health setting.

• Preferred: familiarity with agency compliance documentation repositories, automated inventory tools, and federal security control baselines.

• Preferred: experience with compliance automation frameworks such as InSpec, OSCAL-based control authoring, or continuous controls monitoring.

• Preferred: familiarity with NIST SP 800-218, NIST SP 800-53, and Zero Trust reference architecture under OMB M-22-09.

• Preferred: experience with policy-as-code tools including Open Policy Agent and Conftest.

• Preferred: experience operating Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, TestRail, or Apache JMeter.

• Preferred: relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CISSP, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Industry Competitive Compensation

• Medical and Dental Insurance

• Paid Time Off/Holidays

• 401(k) Retirement Plans with Matching

• Remote Work

• Paid Training

• Employee Referral Program

• Employee Development Program