DevOps Team Lead – FedRAMP
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Phoenix • Arizona • United States
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About the role
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of build and release pipelines within FedRAMP boundary
- Provide day-to-day guidance and direct support to a team of DevOps engineers supporting FedRAMP operations
- Conduct 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, and promote professional development across the team
- Architect and execute cloud deployment strategies optimized for FedRAMP compliance, performance, and cost efficiency
- Review code, infrastructure configurations, and documentation to uphold FedRAMP security controls and best practices
- Train and mentor developers and stakeholders in Azure DevOps, Git workflows, and FedRAMP compliance requirements
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance teams to diagnose and resolve deployment challenges
- Maintain comprehensive documentation aligned with FedRAMP continuous monitoring requirements
- Troubleshoot issues during deployment and provide production support in FedRAMP staging and live environments
- Represent the team in cross-functional meetings, including interactions with federal customers and auditors
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies for FedRAMP-compliant adoption
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship required
- Active security clearance or ability to obtain one
- Prior experience supporting FedRAMP Moderate or High authorization
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in SaaS or cloud-native environments
- 2+ years in a formal engineering leadership role, including people management and performance reviews
- Strong understanding of the FedRAMP framework, its controls, and compliance requirements
- Proven experience with Government Cloud (or strong Azure commercial with ability to transition)
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- - Terraform and Terragrunt for Infrastructure as Code
- - Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm
- - Istio Service Mesh and Istio Ingress Gateways
- - ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
- - CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps
- - Zero Trust architecture, including PIM and RBAC
- - Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor
- - Bash scripting; Python or Go for automation/tooling
- Experience implementing and maintaining security controls in production environments
- Comfortable supporting production systems in on-call rotation
- Strong communication, leadership, and troubleshooting abilities
- Experience with WAFs and secure network configurations in Azure.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
DevOpsSRETerraformTerragruntKubernetesHelmIstioArgoCDCI/CDBash scripting
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationtroubleshootingmentoringperformance reviewsteam guidancecollaborationprofessional developmentproblem-solvingsupport
Certifications
active security clearanceFedRAMP compliance