DevOps Team Lead FedRAMP

At Semperis, our mission is to be a Force for Good. Starting with being a great place to work. We believe that when people feel valued, supported, and empowered, they do their best work. That’s why we focus on creating an employee experience rooted in purpose, growth, and balance. Semperis has been recognized as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Companies by the Inc.

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We're seeking a Dev Ops Team Lead to join our Engineering organization and take ownership of the deployment, orchestration, and secure operations of our FedRAMP-authorized identity and security products. You’ll lead a team while staying intimately involved in the technical delivery and evolution of our Dev Ops strategy within a highly regulated federal environment.

This is a player-coach role: you'll architect and implement compliant solutions directly, while also guiding, mentoring, and enabling a team of engineers to operate at the highest standards of Dev Ops excellence and federal security compliance.

** The successful applicant will be working in FedRAMP environments, which requires U.S. citizenship. We’re also looking for someone with solid FedRAMP experience to help us move quickly and confidently in this space.**

• 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops, 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

You're a technical leader with deep Dev Ops expertise and a passion for building secure, compliant infrastructure. You thrive in regulated environments and understand how to balance security requirements with operational excellence. You're comfortable mentoring engineers while staying hands-on with architecture and implementation.

• U.S. citizenship required
• Active security clearance or ability to obtain one
• Prior experience supporting FedRAMP Moderate or High authorization
• 5+ years of Dev Ops/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 Git Ops workflows
  • CI/CD pipelines via Azure Dev Ops
  • Zero Trust architecture, including PIM and RBAC
  • Observability tools:
    Open Telemetry, 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

• Proven experience with Azure Government Cloud (or strong Azure commercial with ability to transition)
• Experience with FedRAMP continuous…