DevOps Lead

BDR Solutions, LLC excels in delivering best-value services to U.S. Federal Civilian and Defense agencies, driving mission success with excellence and innovation. We specialize in modernizing government systems for health, social services, and disaster relief, enhancing veteran lives. As a service-disabled veteran-owned, 8(a), HUBZone small business, our mission is to provide unparalleled support to veterans in all sectors. We are committed to creating a future where every veteran's well-being is prioritized, combining IT expertise with compassionate care. At BDR, we are known for reliable outcomes tailored to our clients' missions, ensuring our services positively impact veterans and all our clients.

Role Overview

We are seeking a DevOps Lead to build, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines for Smile Digital Health. This role involves collaborating with development, security, and engineering teams to implement Everything as Code, optimize CI/CD workflows, and ensure secure, high-quality software delivery. The ideal candidate has expertise in Python, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Ansible. Strong troubleshooting skills, cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP), and experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration are highly valued. This role also requires meticulous documentation, continuous improvement, and a customer-first mindset.

**Military Veterans encouraged to apply**

Key Responsibilities

• Build and deploy code for Smile Digital Health and associated services. Develop build scripts and infrastructure as code for various teams.
• Maintain build and deployment pipelines to ensure quality delivery of software and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development, security operations and engineering teams to deliver products.
• Foster DevOps culture and champion an Everything as Code approach.
• Investigate and resolve any customer integration issues that arise during implementation.
• Document best practices and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
• Establish technical relationships with our development teams.
• Design, implement and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure templates and deployment pipelines.
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support of internal tools infrastructure and improve system health and reliability.
• Maintain thorough documentation on the development pipeline.
• Assist developers and engineers with deployments and builds as needed.
• Accountable for ensuring that all working hours are accurately reported in Netsuite on a daily or weekly basis, that the majority of (if not all) hours are tracked as billable and that the project management tool in Netsuite is properly and fully utilized.  
• Tracking and reporting of billable hours is a critical aspect of project management and delivery to our customers and this is a major area of accountability.
• Comply with the privacy, security and confidentiality policies.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in a DevOps Engineer type of role or similar software engineering role is preferred.
• Proficiency in Python is essential along with good knowledge of Java Applications.
• Experience working with Gitlab CI/ CD, Jenkins is important.
• Ansible, Terraform or Chef, proficiency in Java, Golang, AWS Cloudformation and Azure ARM Templates would be beneficial.
• Able to prioritize and track multiple projects in parallel.
• Highly responsive and have a customer-first mindset.
• Knowledge of cloud service providers and best practices around implementation and configuration, preferably managing customer environments is nice to have but not required.
• Knowledge of operating and maintaining production systems in Linux and public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI is an asset but not required.
• An understanding of Kubernetes or other Docker orchestration tools is nice to have but not required.

Additional Information:

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. Selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Background investigations, including criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness, may also be conducted.

BDR Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.