Principal Engineering Lead

Job Type

Full-time

Description

About Us

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans from veterans and service members to children families and seniors. Our engineers designers and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

Position Overview

The Principal Engineering Lead will establish and lead engineering operations standards for a large-scale federal data and analytics modernization program including CI/CD and release governance SLO/SLI frameworks operational readiness criteria DevSecOps practices reliability observability and security-by-design delivery. The program operates as a production cloud platform with critical pipelines dashboards APIs public-facing products AI-enabled services and user-facing capabilities. This role will guide engineering execution across secure cloud foundations identity and access DevSecOps automation security compliance API runtime operations platform reliability operational readiness automated testing incident response and cost-management collaboration. The Principal Engineering Lead will partner with customer stakeholders cloud and platform partners security stakeholders architects data teams product leaders and agile teams to keep services reliable secure observable and cost-transparent.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering operations standards CI/CD and release governance SLO/SLI framework development operational readiness criteria DevSecOps practices and reliability across the delivery model. Provide leadership for applicable technical coverage areas including cloud infrastructure infrastructure as code CI/CD source control identity and access observability security automation API runtime operations security assessment support remediation tracking access reviews vulnerability response FedRAMP or comparable security alignment and support escalation practices. Implement DevSecOps principles across the lifecycle including iterative delivery continuous integration and deployment security shifted left security by design automated security testing continuous monitoring cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement. Establish and maintain release readiness and completion criteria for platform infrastructure pipeline API dashboard documentation AI-enabled service and security artifact work. Support automated testing expectations including CI/CD-integrated unit lint smoke functional performance accessibility and security tests with a target of at least 80 percent automated test coverage for code-based deliverables unless the customer approves an alternative. Drive observability and operational action paths for service health incident trends performance deployment risk platform reliability security posture support escalation and runbook-based recovery. Coordinate with customer stakeholders and cloud or platform partners on cloud governance architecture reviews account governance logging backups patching vulnerability scanning cost management and approved cloud service use. Ensure engineering artifacts code repositories infrastructure-as-code modules runbooks dashboard definitions CI/CD workflows security evidence and related materials are maintained in customer-accessible systems of record from day one.

Requirements

Required qualifications All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. This requires candidates to either be U.S. citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation 10+ years experience in software engineering including implementing engineering best practices iterative/continuous engineering principles Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Math or other related scientific or technical discipline. Demonstrated ability to lead engineering operations DevSecOps SRE cloud platform or production operations functions for complex secure mission-critical systems. Experience with cloud infrastructure infrastructure as code CI/CD source control automated testing release governance operational readiness incident response and reliability engineering. Working knowledge of cloud platforms infrastructure-as-code tools source control CI/CD tooling identity and access management observability security automation and API runtime operations. Knowledge of security practices across planning development build/test deployment operations and feedback cycles including threat modeling secure coding dependency scanning container scanning IaC security checks security gates SIEM continuous monitoring and post-incident improvement. Experience establishing SLOs SLIs alerts runbooks dashboards readiness criteria defect management root-cause analysis and engineering health metrics. Ability to coordinate with security privacy product architecture data support and Government stakeholders to maintain reliable and compliant operations. Ability to comply with customer-specific security privacy accessibility quality training and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting federal public sector healthcare or other regulated data analytics oversight reporting or public transparency programs. Experience with data platform operations governance layers API services serverless patterns observability platforms CI/CD platforms advanced source-control security capabilities static and dynamic analysis tools dependency scanning tools accessibility testing tools feature management and BI platforms. Familiarity with FISMA NIST-based controls FedRAMP ATO support security assessment artifacts risk remediation least-privilege access encryption in transit and at rest and continuous monitoring. Experience with cost attribution cost alerts anomaly detection monthly showback reporting and workload optimization. Hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines within the Databricks platform Preferred certifications may include AWS Databrickscloud infrastructure as code DevSecOps SRE SAFe Security+ CISSP cloud security FinOps or related engineering credentials.

Working Environment

eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 900 AM to 500 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager. Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 5% per year.

Benefits

eSimplicity offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental and vision coverage 401(k) retirement benefits paid time off paid holidays life and disability insurance and additional wellness and employee support programs. Eligibility may vary based on employment status and applicable plan terms. Reasonable

Accommodation

eSimplicity is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process. Applicants who need assistance or an accommodation should contact Human Resources. Equal Employment Opportunity eSimplicity is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and protected veteran status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. Salary

Description

$127500 -$170000