DevSecops Engineer
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Arvada, Colorado - Hybrid role
Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers. This role is centered on DevSecOps and site reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on deployment automation, operational stability, and system resilience across AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E environments.
You will be responsible for continuously improving the reliability and operability of client's platform in production, ensuring systems are observable, fault-tolerant, and require minimal manual intervention. Your work will directly impact mission success by improving system uptime, deployment velocity, and operational confidence in constrained and classified environments.
A key focus of this role is building and evolving automated deployment pipelines, hardened runtime environments, and repeatable infrastructure patterns that support secure and scalable operations in regulated environments.
You will also support and improve Client deployments to air-gapped networks, driving consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments. As the organization grows, you will help define and implement best practices for availability, latency, incident response, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
This role includes participation in incident response and a 24/7 on-call rotation, with a strong mandate to eliminate toil through automation and continuously improve system reliability.
You will collaborate closely with frontend, backend, and platform engineers to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and mission assurance requirements.
Technical Skills
Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms
Experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave, or C2E environments
Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab preferred)
Proficiency in Python and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar)
Experience with observability platforms (Grafana LGTM stack, Datadog, or equivalent)
Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, caching, and event-driven architectures
Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, TLS, service connectivity)
Experience with Linux/Unix systems
Familiarity with cloud security best practices, enclave boundaries, and secure system design
Experience with identity and access management (AWS IAM, Auth0, Keycloak, ICAM patterns)
Strong Git fundamentals and experience supporting deployments across multiple classification levels
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer
Active U.S. Security Clearance (TS/SCI)
Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred
Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments highly desirable
Thanks and Regards,
Mamta Giri | Sr. Technical Recruiter | KPG99, INC
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