Principal DevSecOps Engineer / Lead

Job summary

This role leads platform engineering for a federal mission application modernization program, establishing secure, reliable delivery across the modernized platform and sustained applications. The work includes owning infrastructure as code, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, promotion from Impact Level 4 to Impact Level 5, and automated security evidence generation, while directing DevSecOps and SRE staff and coordinating cloud environments, release engineering, and observability standards.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 12 years of DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Experience leading CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code for federal systems.
• Experience supporting federal systems using AWS GovCloud and Kubernetes.
• Experience with OpenTofu, Helm, GitLab CI, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience generating automated Department of Defense security authorization evidence.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
• Active Secret clearance or higher preferred.
• Tier 5 eligibility if privileged administration is required.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure as code and the CI/CD pipeline in the customer's GitLab environment.
• Manage environment promotion from Impact Level 4 to Impact Level 5 and security and compliance evidence generated with each code merge.
• Provide technical direction to the DevSecOps engineer and two Site Reliability Engineers.
• Establish release engineering and observability standards for the platform and sustained applications.
• Coordinate the environment plan with the cloud provider and manage the Government dependency list for accounts, access, and infrastructure.

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