Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead

Dynanet Corporation•Remote, MD

11h•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead with 8+ years of experience to guide the design, modernization, and operational reliability of our large-scale technology platforms. This individual will split time between hands-on engineering and technical leadership — mentoring a team of engineers while driving enterprise-wide modernization initiatives across hybrid AWS and Azure environments. The ideal candidate combines deep site reliability engineering (SRE) expertise, a security-first architectural mindset, and fluency in modern automation and AI-enabled engineering practices.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software/systems engineering experience, including experience in a technical team lead capacity.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale modernization/transformation programs.
Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and principles.
Hands-on expertise across AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture and design.
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools: Terraform and Ansible.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
Familiarity with application security testing tools such as Veracode, and security-driven architecture practices.
Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Excellent communication, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Relevant certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or equivalent.
Experience integrating AI/ML tooling into engineering workflows or platform capabilities.
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
Background in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, setting technical direction, conducting code reviews, and supporting career development.
Serve as a hands-on individual contributor while overseeing sprint planning, technical roadmaps, and engineering best practices.
Partner with product, architecture, and security stakeholders to align engineering execution with business objectives.
Drive large-scale application and infrastructure modernization initiatives, migrating legacy systems to cloud-native, scalable architectures.
Define and execute multi-year technology transformation roadmaps spanning re-platforming, re-architecture, and cloud migration.
Evaluate legacy systems and recommend modernization strategies that balance risk, cost, and business continuity.
Own reliability engineering practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, on-call rotations, and constructive after-action plans.
Design for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery across distributed, multi-cloud systems.
Build observability and monitoring capabilities to proactively identify and resolve system risks.
Architect and implement solutions across AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.
Champion adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
Automate manual operational processes to reduce toil and improve system reliability.
Embed security-by-design principles into architecture and development of lifecycles.
Conduct and act on static/dynamic application security testing using tools such as Veracode.
Ensure compliance with organizational security, governance, and risk management standards across cloud and on-premises environments.
Possess Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Highly organized with the ability to prioritize, balance, and effectively advance multiple competing priorities in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
Ability to interact in a professional and collaborative manner with fellow Dynanet Teammates and the clients, and business partners that we work with.
Ability and desire to challenge and educate yourself to support and advance IT services delivery in the Federal agencies we serve.
Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills.
Respond to team member and client requests via email, MS teams, or other communication means during core business hours.
Active listening skills to understand clients' needs, and collaboration skills to work with other developers and designers.