Lead Software Engineer, DevOps

Overview

Sedaro is hiring a Senior Dev Ops engineer to build our culture of operational excellence. In this role, you will integrate CI/CD, security, and observability tools and automation for our Kubernetes-based multi-cloud environment, as well as rallying your teammates toward best practices.

• Team:
  Dev Sec Ops  Enablement, reporting to the Director of Engineering
• Location:
  
  In person in Arlington, VA
• U.S. Citizen or permanent resident status required

Our cloud-native simulation platform enables digital mission engineering through distributed, scalable, faster than real-time analyses across hundreds of interacting systems. We use CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes to achieve high availability, security, and autoscaling across cloud providers. Join us as an early employee and transform how teams collaboratively engineer the next generation of Aerospace & Defense systems.

• You see beauty in a well‑oiled machine
• You take ownership of technical challenges and celebrate team wins
• You thrill in equipping your teammates with force‑multiplying tools and practices
• You embrace experimentation and autonomy without compromising quality
• You’re energized by deep learning and sharing knowledge across disciplines

• Optimize multi‑cloud production infrastructure for security, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Design and implement system observability with actionable alerting and measurable SLOs
• Drive automation through CI/CD and infrastructure as code
• Build in security through automated detection of vulnerabilities
• Lead incident response and organize blameless post‑mortem discussions
• Search out risks using chaos engineering activities
• Coach operational and security best practices throughout the company
• Foster Lean practices and a culture of continuous improvement

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) with 4% match
• 100% premium payment for Medical Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible work schedule with core hours
• Company provided lunches 3 days a week
• Industry-leading career development opportunities

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems architecture
• Experience implementing CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability practices
• Proficiency in scripting and automation

• Track record implementing security controls and vulnerability management
• Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform CDKTF
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Experience with IL4/5+ and/or NIST 800‑171