Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (DoD)

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Requirements:

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments
• Proficiency in designing and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Familiarity with container security tools like Trivy or Anchore, and container hardening best practices
• Experience deploying to or operating within AWS GovCloud or other DoD-authorized cloud environments
• Knowledge of the Big Bang DevSecOps stack (https://universe.bigbang.dso.mil) and ecosystem (e.g., Istio, Keycloak, GitLab)
• Ability to model and document complex system interactions using modern systems engineering techniques
• Understanding of IL2–IL5 DoD compliance and security requirements
• Familiarity with tools and practices to enable monitoring, logging, auditability, and operational visibility
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and government stakeholders
• Ability to obtain a Common Access Card (CAC), including successful completion of a DoD background investigation

Responsibilities:

• Engineer resilient, secure infrastructure to support agile product teams delivering services at IL2–IL5 classification levels
• Provide hands-on systems engineering leadership and support including creating documentation, diagrams, and models aligned with DoD architectural frameworks
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable continuous delivery of containerized applications, particularly those using the Big Bang stack
• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to assess backlog items and estimate level of effort needed for implementation
• Implement and advocate for secure-by-default DevSecOps practices, including automated vulnerability scanning and remediation
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, and standardize deployment processes
• Support onboarding and knowledge-sharing activities to build capacity within government and contractor teams
• Contribute to standardized architectural patterns and playbooks to align product lines to common delivery and security practices