Development Lead / Solution Architect

Role overview Design and lead delivery of secure cloud development platforms for a federal customer. This hands-on role centers on building automated CI/CD workflows, infrastructure provisioning, and release controls while guiding teams on platform reliability and secure software delivery. The position is remote and depends on the award of a contract.

Responsibilities - Build CI/CD workflows in the customer’s cloud and development environments, using pipeline-as-code and reusable templates. - Automate environment provisioning, configuration, quality checks, and release controls. - Integrate unit, integration, end-to-end, security, compliance, and infrastructure tests into delivery pipelines. - Develop infrastructure-as-code and cloud deployment patterns for portable, separable applications. - Maintain tool inventories, coding standards, shared libraries, procedures, runbooks, and technical documentation. - Troubleshoot platform issues, improve performance, support access needs, and advise development and government stakeholders. - Help teams meet applicable secure development, federal guidance, STIG, and CIS requirements.

Requirements - A bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field and at least 10 years of experience. - A senior industry certification such as CISSP or equivalent. - Practical experience with enterprise CI/CD, cloud and platform automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and release automation. - Experience with Git-based development, automated testing, security tooling, and AWS or a comparable cloud platform. - Ability to create and maintain reusable automation and clear technical procedures. - U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust; an active Secret clearance is strongly preferred.

Nice to have Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jira or Confluence, AWS DevSecOps, Terraform or CloudFormation, containers, NIST SP 800-218, and automated STIG or CIS compliance.

Benefits and work setup The role is remote, contingent on a contract award. Benefits include insurance options, dental and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, a matched 401(k), paid time off, floating federal holidays, and incentives for relevant professional certifications.