Lead DevOps Engineer

Softrams is one of the fastest growing digital services firms in the Washington Metropolitan regions crafting human-centered solutions and empowering digital services with a focus on HX, AI, cloud, DevOps and cyber security. Our offices are located in Leesburg VA, Baltimore MD, and Plano TX, and our teams are spread across the U.S. 
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Job Description Softrams is looking for several Lead DevOps Engineers with strong AWS, Terraform, Linux/Windows, and Kubernetes experience who will be part of a collaborative and agile team that supports and delivers virtual infrastructure for mission-critical health IT solutions. Candidate must have a previous role as a lead or team lead with at least 2 direct reports. This is a 100% remote opportunity, however there may be instances where you would need to be onsite in Woodlawn, MD for a client meeting. 

Federal Requirements:  

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation.  
• Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.  
• Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree is required. 
• Lead level experience with at least 8+ years of overall experience in all the required skills. 
• Recent hands-on experience with AWS. 
• Solid understanding of Linux Systems (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux), hosts, networks, security, applications, and proficiency in shell scripting.  
• Strong experience with containerization particularly with ECS and EKS. 
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture 
• Solid understanding and proven experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes.  
• Believes in automation for consistent, scalable and fool-proof delivery of infrastructure and applications. 
• Support production issues/high severity issues on weekends or off hours as required. 
• Experience managing and mentoring staff, managing expectations and prioritization of work. 
• Ability to balance many priorities and directions at once and keep the team focused and on schedule. 
• Experience working day to day tasks while also innovating to make sure the team not only supports the program but actively innovates to make it better 
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