Development and Automation Lead

Role overview Lead software development and automation for secure systems supporting a federal student aid program. The work spans solution design through deployment and sustainment, with a focus on secure delivery, automation, and coordination across technical teams. This is a remote position contingent on a contract award.

Responsibilities - Turn mission, business, and security needs into development priorities and technical plans. - Lead secure SDLC, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices, including automated builds, tests, security checks, and releases. - Integrate application, infrastructure, compliance, and security testing into delivery workflows; support vulnerability remediation. - Guide integrations with APIs, data sources, security tools, repositories, cloud platforms, and enterprise services. - Establish engineering standards and maintain architecture decisions, runbooks, release records, and automation components. - Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, review technical work, address delivery risks, and mentor engineers.

Requirements - A relevant technical bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience where permitted. - At least 10 years of related software engineering, automation, or DevSecOps experience, including leadership of complex initiatives. - Senior professional certification such as CISSP or equivalent. - Experience delivering enterprise software and building CI/CD, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and release processes. - Knowledge of secure SDLC, infrastructure or configuration automation, and security testing within development pipelines. - U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance; ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust.

Benefits and work setup Remote work is offered. Benefits include paid time off, insurance options, retirement matching, floating federal holidays, and incentives for relevant certifications. The position depends on the associated contract being awarded.