Jobs / Hal***
Cloud Engineer / DevSecOps / CI-CD
Hal*** · McLean, VA, United States
McLean, VA, United StatesExp: 7+ yrs145,000-170,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive benefits package; eligible employees may receive performance-based incentives.
Location
McLean, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Implements and maintains secure CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for a federal transportation agency’s Digital Factory, supporting modernized applications across development, QA, staging, and production. The role automates releases and infrastructure using tools such as GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and infrastructure-as-code, while integrating testing and security scans and maintaining audit evidence for Authority to Operate requirements.
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability i11 federal holidays and paid time offPerformance-based incentives for eligible employees401(k) with company matchingFlexible Spending AccountsTuition assistanceCharitable contribution matching
Qualifications
- At least 7 years of cloud engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, or systems engineering experience, including 3 years building and operating CI/CD pipelines for Agile teams in a Federal Government environment.
- Advanced knowledge of GitHub Enterprise or GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, AWS or Microsoft Azure, infrastructure-as-code, containers, orchestration, scripting, and security-scanning tools.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field.
- Current cloud or DevOps certification, such as AWS, Azure, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
- Favorable Public Trust background investigation and suitability determination for the U.S. DOT contract.
- Knowledge of secure software development practices aligned with NIST SP 800-218 and the OWASP Top 10.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery and FedRAMP-authorized environments such as AWS GovCloud or Azure Government.
- Experience with NIST SP 800-53, ATO processes, continuous monitoring, and FISMA compliance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and continuously improve secure CI/CD pipelines and reusable delivery patterns.
- Orchestrate releases across development, QA, UAT/staging, and production environments.
- Maintain deployment scripts, rollback procedures, data-restore paths, secrets handling, and configuration controls.
- Automate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
- Configure monitoring and alerting for performance, errors, and security events.
- Integrate security scanning and policy enforcement, including code, dependency, container, and vulnerability checks.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows and provide results for reviews and demonstrations.
- Prepare and maintain ATO artifacts, control evidence, scan evidence, and configuration management documentation.
- Coordinate vulnerability remediation, compliance reviews, operating-system patches, library upgrades, and platform updates.
- Inventory contractor-created repositories, pipelines, and DevOps workspaces for Government turnover.
- Automate legacy-system data migration and cutover activities with dry runs, rollback plans, audit logging, and least-privilege access.
Skills
AWSAzureAzure DevOpsAzure MonitorBashBicepCloudFormationCloudWatchDocker.NETGitGitHubGitHub ActionsJavaKubernetesPowerShellPythonServiceNowSplunkTerraformARM Templates
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps EngineerSolutions ArchitectMicrosoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer ExpertAzure AdministratorCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)CompTIA Security+ or equivalent security certification (preferred)
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineer
Industry
Federal GovernmentTransportation
Security clearance
DOT Public Trust
Relocation
No