SR. DevSecOps & Operations Integration Lead- DOC OCIO

Job summary

Leads a unified delivery model connecting application engineering, cybersecurity, automation, release and service management, and production operations in Department of Commerce OCIO software environments. The role governs CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security integration, cloud and platform automation, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness, while coordinating technical and service teams to improve delivery speed, security, reliability, and continuous operations.

Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting the Department of Commerce or the specific supported agency.
• Direct experience in Department of Commerce OCIO software environments.
• At least 10 years of experience in application operations, DevSecOps, site reliability, platform engineering, cloud operations, or enterprise infrastructure.
• At least 5 years leading DevSecOps, platform engineering, application operations, or service-delivery teams.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, security integration, monitoring and observability, and cloud or platform automation.
• Experience supporting secure application delivery and federal cybersecurity or compliance requirements.
• Security+ or an advanced security certification such as CISSP or CISM.
• At least one relevant delivery or platform certification, such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevSecOps, release, environment, configuration, and operations-management practices.
• Design and govern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security gates, deployment controls, and infrastructure automation.
• Integrate cybersecurity across the software delivery lifecycle and coordinate remediation, compliance evidence, and operational security.
• Lead monitoring, observability, incident, problem, change, release, availability, capacity, and service-continuity practices.
• Implement automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities to improve reliability, response, and efficiency.
• Ensure production readiness, transition to operations, runbooks, knowledge transfer, and rollback and recovery plans.
• Manage platform onboarding, operational acceptance, performance baselines, service metrics, and improvement backlogs.
• Coordinate platform engineers, developers, security personnel, service-desk resources, and vendor teams.

Skills

Certifications

Degrees

Industry

Relocation