Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers; establish technical direction, perform code reviews, and facilitate career growth.

• Act as a hands-on contributor while managing sprint planning, technical roadmaps, and engineering best practices.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, and security stakeholders to ensure engineering efforts align with business goals.

• Spearhead large-scale application and infrastructure modernization projects, transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native, scalable architectures.

• Define and implement multi-year technology transformation roadmaps that encompass re-platforming, re-architecture, and cloud migration.

• Assess legacy systems and propose modernization strategies that balance risk, cost, and business continuity.

• Oversee reliability engineering practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, on-call rotations, and after-action reviews.

• Design for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery across distributed, multi-cloud environments.

• Develop observability and monitoring capabilities to proactively identify and address system risks.

• Architect and deploy solutions across AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud configurations.

• Create and manage infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines utilizing Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.

• Advocate for AI-assisted engineering tools and methodologies to enhance developer productivity and operational efficiency.

• Automate manual operational tasks to minimize toil and enhance system reliability.

• Integrate security-by-design principles into architecture and development lifecycles.

• Conduct and respond to static/dynamic application security testing using tools like Veracode.

• Ensure adherence to organizational security, governance, and risk management standards across both cloud and on-premises environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in software/systems engineering, including experience in a technical team leadership role.

• Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale modernization and transformation initiatives.

• Strong foundation in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and principles.

• Practical expertise in AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture and design.

• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools, specifically Terraform and Ansible.

• Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Familiarity with application security testing tools such as Veracode and principles of security-driven architecture.

• Strong scripting and automation capabilities, including languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Exceptional communication, mentorship, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or equivalent are preferred.

• Experience integrating AI/ML tools into engineering workflows or platform functionalities is preferred.

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.

• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk is preferred.

• Background in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management and compliance requirements is preferred.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing tasks in a fast-paced environment.

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

• Willingness and eagerness to challenge oneself to support IT service delivery in federal agencies.

• Excellent judgment and innovative problem-solving abilities.

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

• Active listening and collaboration skills to understand client needs and work effectively with developers and designers.

🏝️ 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