Senior DevSecOps – Platform Engineering Lead

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the DevSecOps and platform engineering ecosystem for a federal modernization initiative.

• Design and implement CI/CD processes across various applications, technology stacks, and environments.

• Facilitate builds, tests, and deployments to be completed in less than an hour.

• Automate production releases with zero downtime, ensuring verification and clean rollback capabilities.

• Automate environment provisioning and teardown through code.

• Integrate security and quality gates, vulnerability scanning, remediation, authorization evidence, and Zero Trust principles into pipelines.

• Establish observability across infrastructure, applications, interfaces, batch jobs, and business transactions.

• Manage incidents and problems, perform root-cause analysis, oversee capacity and performance management, and ensure disaster recovery.

• Maintain stability, patching, and authorization of legacy systems while modern platforms take over their functions.

• Measure and enhance engineering metrics, including build times, deployment frequency, defect escape rates, and toil reduction.

• Lead, mentor, recruit, and develop engineers; establish and uphold engineering standards.

• Utilize AI tools for infrastructure definitions, scripting, pipeline tasks, failure diagnosis, log analysis, test coverage, documentation, and automation.

• Design AI-enabled features such as pipeline diagnostics, automated remediation, vulnerability analysis, knowledge retrieval, developer self-service, and agentic workflows.

• Collaborate directly with federal customers and decision-makers, articulate technical decisions, and challenge erroneous technical directions.

• Engage in architecture decisions, pipeline engineering, production troubleshooting, and code reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in DevSecOps and platform engineering.

• Experience designing and operating CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation for real-world production systems across multiple technology stacks.

• Background in federal delivery within regulated environments.

• Knowledge of authorizations to operate, federal security controls, vulnerability remediation SLAs, and mandated tools.

• Proven production ownership, including availability, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

• Experience in engineering security controls, scanning, and evidence generation within delivery processes.

• Demonstrated use of AI-in-the-loop engineering with tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.

• Technical leadership experience, including direct management of engineers, making accountable architecture decisions, and clarifying technical trade-offs.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

• Must be based in the U.S.

• Ability to obtain and uphold a federal Public Trust clearance is required.

• Secret clearance is not necessary.

• Experience with Salesforce platform or Copado pipeline is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Familiarity with government cloud environments, Splunk, or enterprise monitoring integration is helpful but not required.

• Previous experience with authorization packages, POA&M management, or Zero Trust principles is beneficial but not essential.

• Knowledge of legacy-system decommissioning or dual-stack transition experience is helpful but not required.

• Experience in mortgage or housing finance is not required.

• A specific degree or years of experience are not mandatory; demonstrated capability is prioritized.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive employer-funded medical insurance.

• Fully remote work arrangement, permanently.

• Continuous AI education and professional development sponsored by PhoenixTeam.

• Direct access to customers.

• Opportunity to establish engineering standards for the program.

• Full-time W-2 employment.