Job Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Location: Washington, D.C. (Hybrid %20%)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Technical Skills: Years/Level of Experience
Docker (Software) (7-10 yrs experience)
Microservices Architecture (7-10 yrs experience)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) (7-10 yrs experience)
Google Cloud Native Applications (7-10 yrs experience)
API Design (10+ yrs experience)
Role Description:
"What you’ll do
· Own Terraform for a multi-environment, multi-account AWS estate — modules, state, and the safe reconciliation of live infrastructure into code.
· Operate Amazon EKS clusters (not just consume them): networking, autoscaling, add-ons, workload identity, and cluster lifecycle.
· Run and extend our GitOps delivery model (ArgoCD) — where a merge is a deployment, so the review gate and the verification loop matter.
· Build and harden CI/CD pipelines in GitLab: security scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, container image scanning and signing, and the evidence trail behind them.
· Advance our security and compliance posture against NIST 800-53 — least-privilege IAM, network isolation, continuous monitoring, and the artifacts that support an Authority to Operate.
· Help design the migration to a federal multi-account landing zone: identity, cross-account networking, and promotion between environments.
· Mentor mid- and junior engineers, and raise the bar on change control, review discipline, and “prove it with evidence” engineering.
What we’re looking for (required)
· 7+ years in infrastructure / platform / DevOps, with senior ownership of production systems.
· Deep, hands-on Terraform — you’ve written reusable modules, managed remote state, and untangled drift between code and live infrastructure without breaking things.
· Strong AWS depth: VPC and networking, IAM, EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, Secrets Manager.
· Kubernetes / EKS operated at production scale — workload identity (Pod Identity / IRSA), Helm, autoscaling, ingress and load balancing.
· GitOps experience (ArgoCD or Flux) and CI/CD pipeline engineering (GitLab CI strongly preferred).
· DevSecOps in practice: security scanning (SAST, container, IaC, secrets), policy-as-code (OPA / conftest), and the discipline to make gates actually gate.
· Working knowledge of a federal compliance framework — FISMA / NIST 800-53 / RMF — and what it takes to support an ATO.
· Clear written communication and a collaborative, review-driven style.
Highly desirable
· Multi-account AWS landing zone / Control Tower / Organizations design experience.
· Container supply-chain security: SBOMs, image signing (Notation / AWS Signer), admission control.
· Observability with O17CloudWatch and/or Grafana.
· FedRAMP or GovCloud exposure.
· Weather, geospatial, or scientific-data domain background (genuine plus, not required).
Required Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field
· 5+ years of experience in web application development
· 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud services and development
· Experience with serverless architecture and AWS Lambda, EKS, Docker, Microservices
· Knowledge of cloud data storage options and patterns
· Experience with RESTful API design and implementation
· Understanding of web application security best practices
· Proven ability to mentor other developers and lead technical initiatives
· Understanding of weather data formats (GRIB, NetCDF) and processing requirements
· Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration services (ECS, EKS)
· Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
· Experience with real-time data streaming in web application
Preferred Qualifications
· Master's degree in relevant technical field
· AWS certifications (Developer Associate, Solutions Architect)
· Experience with geospatial data visualization or mapping libraries
· Knowledge of WebGL, Canvas, or other advanced web visualization technologies
· Experience with D3.js or similar data visualization libraries
· Background in meteorological systems or scientific applications
Education Level : Bachelor's Degree
Work Location On-site (Government / AFS Site): Washington, D.C. / Remote (Client Site)
On-site %: 20%
Special Requirements
Work Authorization: s
Clearance Required: Public Trust Full Clearance
