Principal Engineering Lead

eSimplicity

Principal Engineering Lead managing engineering operations standards across federal data and analytics program. Partnering with stakeholders to ensure reliable and secure technology solutions for government agencies.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $127,500 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead engineering operations standards, CI/CD and release governance, SLO/SLI framework development, operational readiness criteria, DevSecOps practices, and reliability across the delivery model.
Provide leadership for applicable technical coverage areas, including cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, source control, identity and access, observability, security automation, API runtime operations, security assessment support, remediation tracking, access reviews, vulnerability response, FedRAMP or comparable security alignment, and support escalation practices.
Implement DevSecOps principles across the lifecycle, including iterative delivery, continuous integration and deployment, security shifted left, security by design, automated security testing, continuous monitoring, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Establish and maintain release readiness and completion criteria for platform, infrastructure, pipeline, API, dashboard, documentation, AI-enabled service, and security artifact work.
Support automated testing expectations, including CI/CD-integrated unit, lint, smoke, functional, performance, accessibility, and security tests, with a target of at least 80 percent automated test coverage for code-based deliverables unless the customer approves an alternative.
Drive observability and operational action paths for service health, incident trends, performance, deployment risk, platform reliability, security posture, support escalation, and runbook-based recovery.
Coordinate with customer stakeholders and cloud or platform partners on cloud governance, architecture reviews, account governance, logging, backups, patching, vulnerability scanning, cost management, and approved cloud service use.
Ensure engineering artifacts, code repositories, infrastructure-as-code modules, runbooks, dashboard definitions, CI/CD workflows, security evidence, and related materials are maintained in customer-accessible systems of record from day one.

Requirements

What you’ll need

All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. This requires candidates to either be U.S. citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years, have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation
10+ years experience in software engineering, including implementing engineering best practices, iterative/continuous engineering principles
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
Demonstrated ability to lead engineering operations, DevSecOps, SRE, cloud platform, or production operations functions for complex, secure, mission-critical systems.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, source control, automated testing, release governance, operational readiness, incident response, and reliability engineering.
Working knowledge of cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code tools, source control, CI/CD tooling, identity and access management, observability, security automation, and API runtime operations.
Knowledge of security practices across planning, development, build/test, deployment, operations, and feedback cycles, including threat modeling, secure coding, dependency scanning, container scanning, IaC security checks, security gates, SIEM, continuous monitoring, and post-incident improvement.
Experience establishing SLOs, SLIs, alerts, runbooks, dashboards, readiness criteria, defect management, root-cause analysis, and engineering health metrics.
Ability to coordinate with security, privacy, product, architecture, data, support, and Government stakeholders to maintain reliable and compliant operations.
Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) retirement benefits
paid time off
paid holidays
life and disability insurance
additional wellness and employee support programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeploymentAutomated Security TestingIncident ResponseReliability EngineeringSLO/SLI EstablishmentRoot-Cause AnalysisDefect Management

Soft Skills

LeadershipCross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder CoordinationCommunication

Certifications

Public Trust Clearance