{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5989e4a951cde10452e40310","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5989e4a951cde10452e40310","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5989e4a951cde10452e40310","title":"Lead DevOps Engineer","description":"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.\n\nRecognized as a Top Workplace USA (2024)\nRecognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Technology (2023, 2021)\nINC 5000, Fastest growing companies in America (2023, 2022)\nWashington Business Journal Top 75 Fastest Growing Companies in Greater Washington area\n2020 NXT UP - Top Federal Emerging Technology and consulting firms\n2020 Inaugural DC Metro’s Most Successful Companies\n2020 Washington Technology Fast 50\nNVTC Tech 100 (2020, 2019)\n\nJob Description\nSoftrams 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.\nFederal Requirements:\nAbility to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation.\nMust reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.\nMust have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree is required.\nLead level experience with at least 8+ years of overall experience in all the required skills.\nRecent hands-on experience with AWS.\nSolid understanding of Linux Systems (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux), hosts, networks, security, applications, and proficiency in shell scripting.\nStrong experience with containerization particularly with ECS and EKS.\nStrong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture\nSolid understanding and proven experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes.\nBelieves in automation for consistent, scalable and fool-proof delivery of infrastructure and applications.\nSupport production issues/high severity issues on weekends or off hours as required.\nExperience managing and mentoring staff, managing expectations and prioritization of work.\nAbility to balance many priorities and directions at once and keep the team focused and on schedule.\nExperience 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\nExperience in working as DevOps leader focusing on CI/CD and CM tools and modern frameworks in the eco-system.\nSolid hands-on experience with working on AWS\nExperience with serverless resources such as lambda, API-gateway, CloudFront\nSolid expertise troubleshooting and managing Linux systems. Hands-on experience in using Ansible or python.\n8 or more years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as terraform.\nSomeone with experience with tools such as Jenkins to enable CI/CD.\n6 or more years of experience working with agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence.\nCandidates with proven certifications and socially accessible profiles that demonstrate the body of work and participation in modern collaboration hubs.\nA great team player and genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team.\nWilling to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly.\nExplores alternatives and quickly prototyping to validate hypothetical architectures or solutions\nGood understanding of the core tenets of agile both in letter and spirit\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience communicating with customers, specifically in the public sector.\nExperience deploying to Kubernetes\nCreating manifests and troubleshooting pods\nFamiliarity with Helm\nUnderstanding of RBAC for k8s clusters\nDesires to continuously learn and invest time expanding credentials relevant to role and customers.\nDemonstrated ability come up with System designs, architecture, process flows and Concept of Operations for large complex systems.\nShould have an AWS Professional certification or be ready to obtain a certification within 60 days from the date of joining.\nKubernetes (Service Mesh, GitOps, securing clusters, Creating Helm Charts)\nKnowledge of Healthcare, Medicare and Medicaid systems and data is a plus.\nPlease provide any code in GitHub or such that you have worked on personally or in the open-source community.\nResponsibilities:\nExpectations as a People Manager:\nUse our company’s cloud-based performance management software updates function to get weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly updates from each direct report.\nManage Team availability on your program\nEnforce the Cloud Practice SOP (standard operating procedures).\nBe the example by modeling what you want from your Staff\nWork Jira tickets; at least 75% of your job is to be technically hands-on.\nHelp your staff grow; pick someone on the team to mentor and assign staff to mentor other staff.\n\nExpectations and Responsibilities to the Program/Product:\nBe available for all customer calls\nFollow up throughout the day and week with your staff to make sure everything is going well, and tasks are getting completed in a timely manner, address injections as they arise.\nMake sure all work has a Jira ticket assigned to it\nMake sure all work you and your staff does is well documented, and PRs/Commits are attached to Jira tickets\nUphold the Customer SLA, remember as people managers we are responsible for the work and performance of those who report to us.\nRespond to emails and slack messages quickly, if you'rein a meeting, have slack represent that and check your messages as soon as it's over.\nHave a reoccurring productive and meaningful standup, record it, make sure everyone attends.\n\nExpectations and Responsibilities to the Practice:\nReport performance issues to the practice leadership as soon as they happen\nMake sure all staff are on any all hands calls.\nReport all good news and wins back to the practice\nReport program issues, failures immediately to practice leadership\nContribute and help other teams and encourage your staff to do the same.\nShare your work with the practice\nHelp grow and mature the practice\nBenefits and Perks:\n65%-75% company-sponsored (including dependents) premiums towards medical, dental and vision insurance. For eligible plans and tiers, we provide 100% company-paid medical insurance. 100% employer sponsored STD, LTD and life insurance (min $100K). Voluntary life insurance option available.\nRetirement 401(k) plan with employer matching. Immediate vesting.\nVacation and sick leave.\nMaternity and parental leave.\nDiscretionary bonuses, spot awards, gifts, and tenure-based rewards.\nCompany-sponsored role-based training and certifications.\nMonthly DoordashDashPass subscription.\nGroup discounts via LifeMart ADP\nPublic Trust Clearance:\nThis role requires the hired candidate to go through public trust clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is required to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.\nWork Location:\nWe have open-collaboration offices in Leesburg VA and Baltimore MD for those who may prefer to work on-site. However, Softrams is a 100% remote-first team environment. Softrams works in the eastern time zone and standard work hours are 9am ET to 5pm ET with flexibility around start and end times based on team needs.\n\nAbout Softrams:\nSoftrams is a Maryland and Virginia-based small business information technology, consulting, and solutions provider specializing in emerging technologies for UX/UI, mobile apps, DevOps, big data analytics, data science, and cyber security. We offer innovative technology implementations and build customer-centric services that are simple, intuitive, scalable, efficient and usable.\n\nEEO Statement:\nSoftrams, LLC. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Softrams is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. 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Our offices are located in Leesburg VA, Baltimore MD, and Plano TX, and our teams are spread across the U.S.\n\nRecognized as a Top Workplace USA (2024)\nRecognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Technology (2023, 2021)\nINC 5000, Fastest growing companies in America (2023, 2022)\nWashington Business Journal Top 75 Fastest Growing Companies in Greater Washington area\n2020 NXT UP - Top Federal Emerging Technology and consulting firms\n2020 Inaugural DC Metro’s Most Successful Companies\n2020 Washington Technology Fast 50\nNVTC Tech 100 (2020, 2019)\n\nJob Description\nSoftrams 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.\nFederal Requirements:\nAbility to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation.\nMust reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.\nMust have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree is required.\nLead level experience with at least 8+ years of overall experience in all the required skills.\nRecent hands-on experience with AWS.\nSolid understanding of Linux Systems (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux), hosts, networks, security, applications, and proficiency in shell scripting.\nStrong experience with containerization particularly with ECS and EKS.\nStrong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture\nSolid understanding and proven experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes.\nBelieves in automation for consistent, scalable and fool-proof delivery of infrastructure and applications.\nSupport production issues/high severity issues on weekends or off hours as required.\nExperience managing and mentoring staff, managing expectations and prioritization of work.\nAbility to balance many priorities and directions at once and keep the team focused and on schedule.\nExperience 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\nExperience in working as DevOps leader focusing on CI/CD and CM tools and modern frameworks in the eco-system.\nSolid hands-on experience with working on AWS\nExperience with serverless resources such as lambda, API-gateway, CloudFront\nSolid expertise troubleshooting and managing Linux systems. Hands-on experience in using Ansible or python.\n8 or more years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as terraform.\nSomeone with experience with tools such as Jenkins to enable CI/CD.\n6 or more years of experience working with agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence.\nCandidates with proven certifications and socially accessible profiles that demonstrate the body of work and participation in modern collaboration hubs.\nA great team player and genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team.\nWilling to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly.\nExplores alternatives and quickly prototyping to validate hypothetical architectures or solutions\nGood understanding of the core tenets of agile both in letter and spirit\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience communicating with customers, specifically in the public sector.\nExperience deploying to Kubernetes\nCreating manifests and troubleshooting pods\nFamiliarity with Helm\nUnderstanding of RBAC for k8s clusters\nDesires to continuously learn and invest time expanding credentials relevant to role and customers.\nDemonstrated ability come up with System designs, architecture, process flows and Concept of Operations for large complex systems.\nShould have an AWS Professional certification or be ready to obtain a certification within 60 days from the date of joining.\nKubernetes (Service Mesh, GitOps, securing clusters, Creating Helm Charts)\nKnowledge of Healthcare, Medicare and Medicaid systems and data is a plus.\nPlease provide any code in GitHub or such that you have worked on personally or in the open-source community.\nResponsibilities:\nExpectations as a People Manager:\nUse our company’s cloud-based performance management software updates function to get weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly updates from each direct report.\nManage Team availability on your program\nEnforce the Cloud Practice SOP (standard operating procedures).\nBe the example by modeling what you want from your Staff\nWork Jira tickets; at least 75% of your job is to be technically hands-on.\nHelp your staff grow; pick someone on the team to mentor and assign staff to mentor other staff.\n\nExpectations and Responsibilities to the Program/Product:\nBe available for all customer calls\nFollow up throughout the day and week with your staff to make sure everything is going well, and tasks are getting completed in a timely manner, address injections as they arise.\nMake sure all work has a Jira ticket assigned to it\nMake sure all work you and your staff does is well documented, and PRs/Commits are attached to Jira tickets\nUphold the Customer SLA, remember as people managers we are responsible for the work and performance of those who report to us.\nRespond to emails and slack messages quickly, if you'rein a meeting, have slack represent that and check your messages as soon as it's over.\nHave a reoccurring productive and meaningful standup, record it, make sure everyone attends.\n\nExpectations and Responsibilities to the Practice:\nReport performance issues to the practice leadership as soon as they happen\nMake sure all staff are on any all hands calls.\nReport all good news and wins back to the practice\nReport program issues, failures immediately to practice leadership\nContribute and help other teams and encourage your staff to do the same.\nShare your work with the practice\nHelp grow and mature the practice\nBenefits and Perks:\n65%-75% company-sponsored (including dependents) premiums towards medical, dental and vision insurance. For eligible plans and tiers, we provide 100% company-paid medical insurance. 100% employer sponsored STD, LTD and life insurance (min $100K). Voluntary life insurance option available.\nRetirement 401(k) plan with employer matching. Immediate vesting.\nVacation and sick leave.\nMaternity and parental leave.\nDiscretionary bonuses, spot awards, gifts, and tenure-based rewards.\nCompany-sponsored role-based training and certifications.\nMonthly DoordashDashPass subscription.\nGroup discounts via LifeMart ADP\nPublic Trust Clearance:\nThis role requires the hired candidate to go through public trust clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is required to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.\nWork Location:\nWe have open-collaboration offices in Leesburg VA and Baltimore MD for those who may prefer to work on-site. However, Softrams is a 100% remote-first team environment. Softrams works in the eastern time zone and standard work hours are 9am ET to 5pm ET with flexibility around start and end times based on team needs.\n\nAbout Softrams:\nSoftrams is a Maryland and Virginia-based small business information technology, consulting, and solutions provider specializing in emerging technologies for UX/UI, mobile apps, DevOps, big data analytics, data science, and cyber security. We offer innovative technology implementations and build customer-centric services that are simple, intuitive, scalable, efficient and usable.\n\nEEO Statement:\nSoftrams, LLC. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Softrams is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, or to participate in the job application or interview process, contact the Talent Acquisition Team at recruiting@softrams.com\n\nKnow your rights poster: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf","datePosted":"2026-04-12T20:49:53.193Z","dateModified":"2026-04-12T20:49:53.193Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Softrams","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Remote","addressRegion":"OR","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"5989e4a951cde10452e40310"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5989e4a951cde10452e40310"}}