Careers

disruptiveOps employs a team of team’s approach with our products and services, so we can respond more quickly to customer needs.  Essentially, everyone is responsible to deliver and provide exceptional customer satisfaction.

disruptiveOps team

For you, a team of team’s approach means being paired with other great folks but with different skillsets, capabilities, and maturity.  This type of approach means you always have an opportunity to learn as well as hone your skills to become a better servant leader among the teams.

 

No titles – no “bosses” – no single point of contacts.

Ideal for those with entrepreneurial spirit

At disruptiveOps, we seek candidates who believe they have an entrepreneurial spirit so can help with creativity, new revenue streams, enhanced quality, and better service to current and future customers.

Hiring teammates with this spirit leads to significant increases in morale, accountability, strong leadership, and a sense of fulfillment.

At disruptiveOps, we seek candidates who believe they have an entrepreneurial spirit so can help with creativity, new revenue streams, enhanced quality, and better service to current and future customers.

Hiring teammates with this spirit leads to significant increases in morale, accountability, strong leadership, and a sense of fulfillment.

Why join disruptiveOps?

Flexible hours

We encourage being in-person for a few hours most mornings but after that everyone works where and when they can be most productive.  We use the GSD model.

Competitive salary

Our merit-based salary and company-based performance bonus ensure a comfortable lifestyle.

Innovation-mindsets

Every service and solution use a whole-team delivery model to promote innovation; research, cyber, engineers, analysts, user experience, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc

Challenging

You will be pushed beyond your comfort zone (technical skills, speaking, writing, training, leadership, etc).

Chill peps

We primarily hire based on personality, ability to learn quickly, ability to communicate, and having an entrepreneurial mindset you won’t even feel like you’re working.

Sweet bennies

Movie tickets, gym memberships, awesome disruptiveOps gear, happy hours, breakfast, lunch, etc.

Want to join disruptiveOps?

Check out our open positions below and fill the application for by clicking on it.

Agile Team Coach

Location: Rockville, MD (metro accessible)

Agile Coaches are to help teams and individuals help themselves.  Our Agile Coaches must rock at their craft.  They are able to quickly assess a team’s maturity and do what it takes to help be it training, mentoring, consulting, or coaching.  Our coaches are well versed in various team and scaling frameworks but strongly favor context-based approaches for delivery.  Do you have what it takes to be one of us?
This is a contract position.

Your Will Be Accountable to Maintain Our Coaching Principles:

  • Know yourself and seek self-improvement
  • Be technically and tactically proficient
  • Know your team and look out for their welfare
  • Keep your teams informed
  • Set the example
  • Ensure team-desired behavioral changes are understood, actively managed, and
  • achieved
  • Train those your coaching as a team
  • Make sound and timely decisions
  • Develop a sense of responsibility among those you are coaching
  • Employ your teams in accordance with its capabilities
  • Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions

Your Primary Responsibilities include:

  • Supporting the organizational journey to do more with less
  • Continually assess the maturity of each team with quantitative and qualitative measures & metrics
  • Continually collaborate with other coaches to establish greater learning opportunities across the organization
  • Continually collaborate with other coaches to hone program-level READY WHENs and DONE WHENs
  • Continually collaborate with coaches and leadership to develop learning roadmaps for roles and teams
  • Continually collaborate with those serving in business roles to develop and hone roadmaps
  • Continually collaborate with those serving in technical roles to help them identify ways to lean their processes
  • Continually collaborate with teams so they can identify risks and quickly manage them to closure
  • Continually collaborate with teams so they can identify waste and quickly work to eliminate, automate, or reduce it
  • Continually collaborate with disruptiveOps’s Chief Methodologist to help identify organizational behavioral patterns that may need addressing
  • Help teams develop norming approaches like DONE WHENs, READY WHENs, Working Agreements, etc.
  • Host “Office Hours” at least once every two weeks
  • Be able to provide ad-hoc training on any related topics like Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Writing, Blockers, etc.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

To be considered for this position, please email a resume to careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Location: Rockville, MD (metro accessible)

The Executive Personal Assistant (EPA) will work directly with the CEO to assist in eliminating and reducing tasks that do not directly pertain to moving the company forward. The EPA is an intelligent, positive, and highly mature professional that likes solving problems and constant learning.

This is a contract position.

The Ideal Candidate has the Following Traits and Capabilities:
• Great personality – easy to talk with- ability to easily talk to potential clients / vendors
• Inquisitive nature to question why we are or not doing something
• Ability to effectively interact with senior level executives and their assistants in a professional manner
• Acute attention to accuracy, consistency and a high degree of quality in work
• Must be flexible and a self-starter
• Must possess the highest level of work ethics and integrity with the ability to maintain confidential information; demonstrated level of discretion in handling privileged information
• Must possess a strong administrative and organizational skills with the ability to be proactive in completing assignments and job responsibilities with minimal supervision
• Must possess the ability to effectively interface with a variety of people with tact and diplomacy and work well under stressful situations
• Must possess good writing skills with ability to write, edit and manage correspondence at executive levels.
• Must be willing to learn how to write more effectively
• Proactive in anticipating business and administrative needs
• Proficient with most Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Very comfortable with social media sites (research, updating, etc.)
• Very comfortable with performing Internet researching
◦ May receive little direction and be able to start collecting information on for very small projects
• Ability to update wikis
• Ability to document how to processes
• Ability to learn web-based applications
• Experience in managing a busy calendar, making travel arrangements & managing expenses
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint or willing to learn

Typical Day May Include
• Collaborating with CEO to identify the minimal needs for the day
• Collaborating with the C-Suite on open tasks, risks, and issues
• Reviewing to do lists, emails, and social media sites
• Identifying ways to optimize CEO’s time
• Assisting the CEO with managing and prioritizing daily workflow around emerging issues, including preparing materials and written correspondence timely on behalf of the CEO
• Assisting with scheduling and calendaring for the CEO
• Assist the CEO prepare and submit travel expenses
• Plan and coordinate travel, travel itineraries, including international travel logistics, and meeting/event coordination support
• Performing lightweight Internet research for training documents and social media posts
• Helping develop and maintain internal documentation and wikis
• Helping develop and maintain contact lists within HubSpot
• Running of local errands like food, small purchases (tech, office materials), etc.
• Leveraging resources to accomplish objectives effectively and take initiative to improve office environment and operations as needed
• Providing personal support to the CEO as needed
• Other duties and projects as assigned

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

To be considered for this position, please email a resume to careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Location: Remote (with ability to meet in Germantown, MD office weekly)

The Junior Software Developer is part of a development team building Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions and maintaining corporate and product websites.

The development teams utilize a microservice approach using the Microsoft Azure platform, Microsoft .NET languages (C# and ASP.NET), and MS SQL.  For the front-end the developments teams utilize HTML5, CSS 3.0, and JavaScript.

The Junior Software Developer will be involved in all facets of the lifecycle to include planning, building, testing, delivery, deployment, and maintenance.  Every team member will need to serve in any role.

This is a contract position.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Actively support the team as a full stack software developer
  • Embrace an Agile-mindset throughout each day
  • Embrace the use of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean
  • Utilize a combination of Test-Driven-Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven-Development (BDD)
  • Practice secure coding
  • Practice Agile engineering
  • Continually align to standard engineering approaches and quality minimums
  • Continually refactor code and scripts
  • Continually suggest enhancements to the organization and team technical stacks
  • Collaborate with leadership and Product Owners to add more customer value to our tools
  • Maintain VersionOne daily
  • Check-in code to GitLab at least once a day
  • Utilize static code analysis (SCA) tools daily (SonarQube & SonarLint)
  • Continually seek ways to automate every aspect of delivery and deployment
  • As needed, conduct code and peer reviews
  • As needed, provide customer support
  • As needed, provide internal demonstrations

Desired Skills & Experience

Minimum Requirements:

  • College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Strong desire to learn

Core Competency Requirements:

  • Solid understanding of object oriented programming concepts
  • Solid understanding of relational database design and querying concepts
  • Familiarity with version control concepts

Preferred Competency Requirements:

  • Exposure to Microsoft .NET development using C# and ASP.NET
  • Exposure to web development using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
  • Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
  • Knowledge of unit testing theory

To be considered for this position, please email us at careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Location: Rockville, MD – Remote Position

Duration: Four Months with opportunity to extend 1 year

The Operational Development (OD) Consultant is accountable to help our methodologist and technologist understand the key aspects of popular leadership frameworks so they can seek innovative ways to quantify how an individual’s perceived leadership capabilities aligns to those frameworks.

Your Primary Responsibilities Include:

  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) with Organizational Development
  • Subject Matter Expert with Leadership frameworks, principles, and theories
  • Conduct research on best practices and innovative ideas to recruit, develop, and retain technologist for leadership opportunities
  • Collaborate with methodologist and technologist to help quantify leadership models
  • Collaborate with primary investigator on documenting findings, risks, and understanding on the feasibility of quantifying leadership models
  • Provide insights on personal traits that will help with recruiting, developing, and retaining technology leaders

Qualifications:

  • Requires Bachelor’s degree with 4 years’ experience or 10 years’ experience with OD
  • Highly experienced with leadership and OD theories with at least 2 large organizations
  • Certification or experience with popular leadership / personality assessments
  • Experience designing and implementing large-scale leadership, manager, and/or high-performing team programs within a complex, matrixed, and transforming organization
  • Working knowledge of measurement & assessment methods, talent & learning management, career development and customer service best practices.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

To be considered for this position, please email us at careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Location: Rockville, MD (metro accessible)

Scrum Master are to help their team(s) help themselves.  Our Scrum Masters must truly understand and advocate the Scrum Guide.  They are able to quickly assess a team’s maturity and do what it takes to help be it training, mentoring, consulting, or coaching.  Our Scrum Masters must be well versed with Scrum, eXtreme Programming, and Lean.  Do you have what it takes to be one of us?

This is a contract position.

Your Will Be Accountable to Maintain Our Scrum Master Principles:

  • Know yourself and seek self-improvement
  • Be technically and tactically proficient
  • Know your team and look out for their welfare
  • Keep your team(s) informed
  • Set the example
  • Ensure team-desired behavioral changes are understood, actively managed, and achieved
  • Train everyone as a team
  • Make sound and timely decisions
  • Develop a sense of responsibility among your teammates
  • Encourage your team to only employ itself in accordance with its capabilities
  • Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions

Your Primary Responsibilities include:

  • Supporting the organizational journey to do more with less
  • Continually assess the maturity of each team with quantitative and qualitative measures & metrics
  • Continually collaborate with other Scrum Masters to establish greater learning opportunities across the organization
  • Continually collaborate with coaches to hone program-level READY WHENs and DONE WHENs
  • Continually collaborate with those serving in business roles to develop and hone roadmaps
  • Continually collaborate with those serving in technical roles to help them identify ways to lean their processes
  • Continually collaborate with their Scrum team(s) so they can identify risks and quickly manage them to closure
  • Continually collaborate with their Scrum team(s) so they can identify waste and quickly work to eliminate, automate, or reduce it
  • Ensure their Scrum team(s) is conducting their ceremonies (Planning, Review, Retrospectives, and Standups)
  • Help their Scrum team(s) develop and maintain team norms
  • Help their Scrum team(s) by presenting insightful measures & metrics
  • Be able to provide ad-hoc training on any related topics like Agile, Scrum, Lean, Writing, Blockers, etc.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

To be considered for this position, please email a resume to careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Be on our short list

Want to join us but no open positions matching what you want?  Email us your resume anyway so we can see if you have something to bring to the table we have not yet thought of.

Seeking an internship?

We are always open to internship anytime of the year so do not miss out on a truly great experience.  After onboarding, our interns immediately embed in with a team to gain real-world skills and help us too. Email us your resume with desired start and end dates.