Lead Software Engineer, DevOps

Overview Sedaro is hiring a Lead DevOps 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: DevSecOps Enablement, reporting to the Director of Engineering

Location: In person in Arlington, VA

U.S. Citizen or permanent resident status required

Who We Are 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.

Who You Are

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

What You'll Do

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 infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and continuous compliance

Foster Lean practices and a culture of continuous improvement

Benefits

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

Requirements

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

Additional desirable experience:

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/orNIST 800-171