Operations DevOps Team Lead

teKnoluxion•St. Louis, MO

10h•$149,000 - $180,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BCore is seeking a motivated and experienced Operations DevOps Team Lead to join their growing team, supporting the NGA customer mission. This role is ideal for someone who wants to build tailored technical solutions to modernize government missions and client businesses, change how people work, and protect national cyber interests. The team focuses on accelerating decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions. The Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support.

Requirements

Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly
Minimum of IAT Level II certification (Security+ or equivalent)
Bachelor's degree in IT or STEM field
7+ years leading teams in operations, sustainment, administration, security, or integration
5+ years implementing DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements
3+ years working with cloud technologies
Experience supporting Agile/SAFe environments
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage users and government customers
Knowledge of containerization, monitoring, logging, networking, and security

Nice To Haves

IAT Level III certification
Experience with geospatial system operations
CISSP or CISM
Familiarity with configuration/change management processes
Experience with integrated software delivery, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ArgoCD), and ticketing tools (ServiceNow, Jira)
Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift
Background in system engineering or project management
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar IaC tools
Ability to automate tasks using Python or Bash
Experience enhancing existing code and contributing to system architecture
Intelligence Community Experience

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor an Operations/DevOps team supporting multi-environment system sustainment, administration, maintenance, and user support.
Prioritize and distribute work across the team, ensuring timely issue resolution and operational excellence.
Collaborate directly with users and government customers to understand requirements, communicate system status, and ensure mission outcomes.
Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations.
Maintain and update operational documentation including SOPs, SLAs, and system guides.
Receive code from development teams and complete system builds, hardening, configuration, and deployment automation.
Support and enhance CI/CD deployment workflows and security scans.
Manage PKI certificates, system configurations, and operational compliance.
Develop Helm charts for OpenShift deployments and support Infrastructure as Code practices.
Design and monitor user and system metrics to ensure performance, reliability, and readiness across all environments.