This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a CI/CD Team Lead / Technical Delivery Manager (Contingent on Contract Award) based in the United States.
As the CI/CD Team Lead / Technical Delivery Manager, you will own a mission-critical continuous integration and delivery platform supporting development teams on a large federal program.
You will lead a high-stakes 90-day transition from an incumbent environment while maintaining uninterrupted production operations.
The role combines hands-on platform engineering, technical leadership, operational ownership, and delivery management.
You will oversee a large-scale CloudBees/Jenkins ecosystem, Kubernetes-based build infrastructure, GitHub integrations, and automated pipeline capabilities.
You will also drive modernization through AI-assisted optimization, developer enablement, reusable pipelines, and DevOps best practices.
Success requires strong technical depth, disciplined transition planning, and the ability to lead teams through complex operational change.
This is a fully remote opportunity for an experienced platform leader who can operate confidently in a highly regulated federal environment.
Accountabilities
- Own the operational stability, availability, configuration, and performance of a large enterprise CI/CD platform.
- Administer and configure CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center and approximately 25 managed controllers.
- Manage EKS-based autoscaling build-agent infrastructure, balancing performance, cost efficiency, scalability, and cluster health.
- Monitor pipeline performance, proactively identify bottlenecks and failures, and implement improvements.
- Maintain reliable integrations with GitHub Cloud and GitHub Enterprise, including connectivity, webhooks, and organization-level configurations.
- Establish standardized technology-stack version baselines and develop reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries.
- Maintain platform and controller configurations as code so environments can be rebuilt consistently without manual reconstruction.
- Lead the 90-day transition of the CI/CD platform from the incumbent provider with a zero-production-disruption objective.
- Assess each transitioning tool, including its inherited security posture, and establish appropriate transition and risk-mitigation plans.
- Assume operational monitoring and Level 1 incident response while developing and obtaining approval for detailed transition plans, milestones, rollback procedures, and risk controls.
- Lead operational cutovers and maintenance windows while maintaining parallel operations where technically feasible.
- Deliver operational reporting, initiate roadmap planning, and formally close the transition while ensuring no production incidents are attributable to the migration.
- Lead infrastructure separation for testing environments, establishing isolated CI infrastructure within dedicated AWS account boundaries without disrupting active test windows.
- Own AI-driven pipeline resource optimization and dashboards used by development teams.
- Develop a roadmap for AI-assisted pipeline troubleshooting, shared-library impact analysis, and automated pull-request validation.
- Guide development teams in enterprise DevOps pipeline adoption and support the transition toward trunk-based development.
- Define DevOps objectives for program increments and track delivery risks, blockers, dependencies, and progress.
- Establish cross-team forums, integration checkpoints, technical presentations, game days, and other knowledge-sharing activities.
- Collaborate with delivery teams and stakeholders to promote consistent engineering practices and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience operating enterprise CI/CD platforms, including at least 4 years in production environments of comparable scale.
- At least 2 years of experience leading a technical delivery or platform team.
- Extensive hands-on Jenkins administration experience at enterprise scale; CloudBees CI and Operations Center experience is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience operating build infrastructure on Kubernetes, including autoscaling agent fleets.
- Experience integrating CI/CD platforms with GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Cloud, including webhook and organization-level configuration.
- Proven experience leading a platform transition or migration where maintaining production continuity was a critical requirement.
- Strong experience with transition planning, rollback strategies, risk mitigation, operational readiness, and production cutovers.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline plus 8 years of relevant experience preferred. Equivalent combinations may include a master’s degree plus 6 years, associate degree plus 10 years, or high school diploma/GED plus 12 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in CMS or HHS environments, FISMA boundaries, or comparable shared-services platforms is preferred.
- Experience supporting environments with 50,000+ builds per month is advantageous.
- Experience driving adoption of trunk-based development across teams is a plus.
- Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory and Xray, including vulnerability-severity-based image promotion gating, is preferred.
- CloudBees Certified Jenkins Engineer certification or equivalent is preferred.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator and AWS Solutions Architect Associate certifications are preferred; completion within 12 months may be expected if not already held.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure transition environments with strict production continuity requirements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to operational risks.
- Must be a U.S. person and able to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust suitability determination and HSPD-12 PIV credential.
- Must be able to complete in-person identity proofing.
- All work must be performed within the continental United States.
- Must be able to work exclusively with company-issued, federally hardened equipment; personal devices cannot be used to access client systems or data.
Benefits
- Annual base salary of $170,000–$175,000, with actual compensation determined by experience, qualifications, skills, location, and internal equity.
- Fully remote position within the continental United States.
- Opportunity to lead a mission-critical CI/CD platform supporting a large federal program.
- Significant technical ownership across CloudBees/Jenkins, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, and DevSecOps capabilities.
- Opportunity to lead a high-impact 90-day platform transition and shape the program’s long-term DevOps roadmap.
- Exposure to AI-driven pipeline optimization and next-generation developer enablement initiatives.
- Company-issued equipment configured according to federal security requirements.
- Federal security awareness, privacy, and records-management training.
- Opportunity to work with enterprise-scale development infrastructure and complex delivery environments.
- Contingent offer structure: employment begins only after the applicable contract is awarded and required suitability and credentialing processes are successfully completed.
- Federal suitability and credentialing support, with processing potentially taking several weeks to several months.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of applicable background investigation, drug screening, and reference checks.
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