OverviewOperations DevOps Team Lead
Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO
Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly
Minimum of IAT Level II certification (Security+ or equivalent) with IAT Level III certification preferred
Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team as a Operations DevOps Team Lead, supporting the NGA customer mission.
Responsibilities
What you get to do every day:
- We're seeking a leader who brings strong Operations and Systems Administration expertise, team management experience, excellent communication skills, and enough development/scripting background to help automate, configure, and enhance deployments.
- Lead and mentor an Operations/DevOps team supporting multi-environment system sustainment, administration, maintenance, and user support.
- Prioritize and distribute work across the team, ensuring timely issue resolution and operational excellence.
- Collaborate directly with users and government customers to understand requirements, communicate system status, and ensure mission outcomes.
- Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations.
- Maintain and update operational documentation including SOPs, SLAs, and system guides.
- Receive code from development teams and complete system builds, hardening, configuration, and deployment automation.
- Support and enhance CI/CD deployment workflows and security scans.
- Manage PKI certificates, system configurations, and operational compliance.
- Develop Helm charts for OpenShift deployments and support Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Design and monitor user and system metrics to ensure performance, reliability, and readiness across all environments.
Qualifications
Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly
Certification Required: Minimum of IAT Level II certification (Security+ or equivalent) with IAT Level III certification preferred
Education/Experience:
- Requires Bachelor's degree in IT or STEM field
7+ years leading teams in operations, sustainment, administration, security, or integration
5+ years implementing DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements
3+ years working with cloud technologies
Required Skills:
Experience supporting Agile/SAFe environments
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage users and government customers
Knowledge of containerization, monitoring, logging, networking, and security
What is ideal?
Experience with geospatial system operations
CISSP or CISM
Familiarity with configuration/change management processes
Experience with integrated software delivery, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ArgoCD), and ticketing tools (ServiceNow, Jira)
Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift
Background in system engineering or project management
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar IaC tools
Ability to automate tasks using Python or Bash
Experience enhancing existing code and contributing to system architecture
- Intelligence Community Experience preferred
What you can expect from us
- Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
- You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
- The expected salary range within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $149,000-$180,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee.
- Benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more.
