Job Type
Full-time
Description
Position Details: Job Title: Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Remote, MD
About the Role: We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead with 8+ years of experience to guide the design, modernization, and operational reliability of our large-scale technology platforms. This individual will split time between hands-on engineering and technical leadership - mentoring a team of engineers while driving enterprise-wide modernization initiatives across hybrid AWS and Azure environments. The ideal candidate combines deep site reliability engineering (SRE) expertise, a security-first architectural mindset, and fluency in modern automation and AI-enabled engineering practices.
Requirements
Roles & Responsibilities: Technical Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, setting technical direction, conducting code reviews, and supporting career development.
- Serve as a hands-on individual contributor while overseeing sprint planning, technical roadmaps, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with product, architecture, and security stakeholders to align engineering execution with business objectives.
Modernization & Transformation
- Drive large-scale application and infrastructure modernization initiatives, migrating legacy systems to cloud-native, scalable architectures.
- Define and execute multi-year technology transformation roadmaps spanning re-platforming, re-architecture, and cloud migration.
- Evaluate legacy systems and recommend modernization strategies that balance risk, cost, and business continuity.
Site Reliability Engineering
- Own reliability engineering practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, on-call rotations, and constructive after-action plans
- Design for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery across distributed, multi-cloud systems.
- Build observability and monitoring capabilities to proactively identify and resolve system risks.
Cloud, Automation & AI
- Architect and implement solutions across AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.
- Champion adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
- Automate manual operational processes to reduce toil and improve system reliability.
Security-Driven Architecture
- Embed security-by-design principles into architecture and development of lifecycles.
- Conduct and act on static/dynamic application security testing using tools such as Veracode.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security, governance, and risk management standards across cloud and on-premises environments.
Required Professional Skills: - 8+ years of professional software/systems engineering experience, including experience in a technical team lead capacity.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale modernization/transformation programs.
- Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and principles.
- Hands-on expertise across AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture and design.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools: Terraform and Ansible.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with application security testing tools such as Veracode, and security-driven architecture practices.
- Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Excellent communication, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Professional Skills: - Relevant certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or equivalent.
- Experience integrating AI/ML tooling into engineering workflows or platform capabilities.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
- Background in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management and compliance requirements.
Dynanet Team Requirements and Expectations: - Possess Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with the ability to prioritize, balance, and effectively advance multiple competing priorities in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to interact in a professional and collaborative manner with fellow Dynanet Teammates and the clients, and business partners that we work with.
- Ability and desire to challenge and educate yourself to support and advance IT services delivery in the Federal agencies we serve.
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills.
- Respond to team member and client requests via email, MS teams, or other communication means during core business hours.
- Active listening skills to understand clients' needs, and collaboration skills to work with other developers and designers.
Education/Experience Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Employee Benefits Overview: - 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
