Principal Engineering Lead

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

📋 Description

• Oversee engineering operations standards, CI/CD and release governance, the development of SLO/SLI frameworks, operational readiness criteria, DevSecOps practices, and ensure reliability within the delivery model.

• Provide leadership in relevant technical areas, which include cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, source control, identity and access management, observability, security automation, API runtime operations, support for security assessments, remediation tracking, access reviews, vulnerability responses, FedRAMP compliance or equivalent security alignments, and support escalation methods.

• Implement DevSecOps methodologies throughout the lifecycle, encompassing iterative delivery, continuous integration and deployment, security shifted left, design-based security, automated security testing, continuous monitoring, cross-functional collaboration, and ongoing improvement.

• Establish and uphold release readiness and completion criteria for various elements including platform, infrastructure, pipelines, APIs, dashboards, documentation, AI-enabled services, and security artifacts.

• Facilitate automated testing expectations, which include CI/CD-integrated unit, lint, smoke, functional, performance, accessibility, and security tests, aiming for at least 80 percent automated test coverage for code deliverables unless an alternative is approved by the customer.

• Promote observability and proactive operational pathways for service health, incident trends, performance metrics, deployment risks, platform reliability, security posture, support escalation, and recovery based on runbooks.

• Collaborate with customer stakeholders and cloud or platform partners regarding cloud governance, architecture reviews, account management, logging, backups, patching, vulnerability scanning, cost management, and authorized cloud service utilization.

• Ensure that engineering artifacts, code repositories, infrastructure-as-code modules, runbooks, dashboard definitions, CI/CD workflows, security evidence, and related materials are consistently maintained in customer-accessible records from the outset.

⛳️ Requirements

• All applicants must successfully obtain public trust clearance from the U.S. Federal Government. This necessitates that candidates be U.S. citizens or secure clearance through the Foreign National Government System, which requires that they have resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years, possess a valid and unexpired passport from their country of birth, and have the necessary VISA/work permit documentation.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering, including the application of engineering best practices and iterative/continuous engineering principles.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or another related scientific or technical field.

• Proven capability to lead engineering operations, DevSecOps, SRE, cloud platforms, or production operations for complex, secure, mission-critical systems.

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, source control, automated testing, release governance, operational readiness, incident response, and reliability engineering.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code tools, source control, CI/CD tools, identity and access management, observability, security automation, and API runtime operations.

• Understanding of security practices throughout planning, development, build/test, deployment, operations, and feedback cycles, including threat modeling, secure coding, dependency scanning, container scanning, IaC security checks, security gates, SIEM, continuous monitoring, and post-incident enhancements.

• Experience in establishing SLOs, SLIs, alerts, runbooks, dashboards, readiness criteria, defect management, root-cause analysis, and engineering health metrics.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with security, privacy, product, architecture, data, support, and government stakeholders to ensure reliable and compliant operations.

• Capability to adhere to customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) retirement benefits.

• Paid time off.

• Paid holidays.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Additional wellness and employee support programs.