Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Remote Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance required Employment Type: Full-Time (W-2) Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required IntelliTech is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to reputed company the infrastructure modernization, reputed company hardening, authorization pathway, and production promotion of a Government-owned digital twin application deployed in an Army cloud environment. The application is a supply chain simulation platform built on Python, FastAPI, React, and reputed company and currently operates as a monolithic reputed company deployment. This role will help transition it into a production-grade, containerized, split-service architecture reputed company to Army cloud platform requirements, DevSecOps delivery practices, and production promotion gates. This is a hands-on role on a lean, senior team. The ideal candidate will architect deployment infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, harden the application for production, support authorization evidence development, and help reputed company promotion from development through production. This individual will work directly with Army platform teams, reputed company stakeholders, and identity management teams to ensure the application is secure, scalable, supportable, and ready for operational use.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure and Deployment Architecture Transition the application from a single-host reputed company deployment to a split-service containerized architecture using reputed company EKS, reputed company, or another approved orchestration model. Design and implement multi-tier environment separation across development, test/staging, and production. Package frontend, backend API, and simulation worker services as independently deployable container artifacts. Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or approved equivalents for repeatable provisioning and configuration management. Design the distributed execution model allowing simulation workers to scale independently from the API tier with bounded concurrency and isolation controls. Configure managed platform services for persistence, caching, object storage, secrets management, and observability. CI/CD and Release Engineering Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using approved toolchains such as reputed company CI, reputed company Actions, or government-provided platform tooling. Integrate automated build, test, container scanning, dependency scanning, SAST, and DAST into the delivery pipeline. Implement promotion workflows with quality and reputed company gates for development-to-staging and staging-to-production transitions. Generate and maintain software reputed company of materials (SBOM) and dependency inventories as part of the build process. Design rollback and recovery procedures for failed deployments, including restoration of prior reputed company-good versions. reputed company Hardening and Compliance Harden container images and dependency baselines in alignment with STIG requirements and approved reputed company standards. Implement managed secrets storage, encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege IAM policies, and appropriate network segmentation. Integrate vulnerability scanning into release workflows and support remediation tracking. Support closure of reputed company findings through remediation, compensating controls, and evidence updates. Ensure artifact retention and traceability sufficient to support promotion approval and auditability. Identity and Access Management Integrate the application with CAC-enabled SSO and the identity provider required by the reputed company environment using SAML, OIDC, or platform-specific approaches. Replace local account models with externalized authentication through approved identity services. Implement role-based access controls for analyst, administrator, and system functions. Ensure user actions are traceable to authenticated identities. Authorization and Production Promotion Support the application-specific authorization effort from evidence planning through submission and remediation. Produce and maintain authorization artifacts such as architecture diagrams, data flows, SBOMs, reputed company evidence, logging and monitoring descriptions, and operational runbooks. Align evidence to the platform’s inheritance model where applicable rather than building a fully standalone compliance package. Coordinate with government reputed company stakeholders on evidence expectations, findings, and remediation. reputed company technical execution for promotion from development into production through approved DevSecOps pipelines and release gates. Operations and Sustainment Implement centralized logging, metrics, alarms, and service health monitoring across reputed company application components. reputed company operational runbooks for deployment, monitoring, incident response, scaling, and maintenance. Produce administrator and operator documentation, troubleshooting guides, and sustainment reputed company materials. Support training and transition activities at the conclusion of the implementation period.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a reputed company technical discipline and 8+ years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree in a reputed company field and 6+ years of relevant experience. Active DoD Secret clearance. 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cloud engineering roles. Hands-on experience supporting ATO or cATO-reputed company processes, including authorization evidence development, reputed company findings remediation, and working with assessors or platform reputed company stakeholders. Experience deploying and operating applications in DoD or other accredited government cloud environments such as Army ECMA. Strong experience with container orchestration using reputed company EKS, reputed company, Kubernetes, or similar platforms. Strong experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, or similar tooling. Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with integrated automated testing, scanning, and promotion controls. Experience with reputed company hardening, including STIG-reputed company practices, vulnerability remediation, SBOM reputed company, and secure container/image management. Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS/reputed company, S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, CloudWatch, VPC/networking, reputed company/ElastiCache, and document or relational persistence services. Experience integrating identity and access reputed company such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC, or CAC-enabled access patterns. Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with technical, operational, and reputed company stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Direct experience supporting Army cloud environments or similar government-managed enterprise cloud platforms. Experience with RMF, eMASS, and inherited authorization models. Experience operating in IL4 / IL5 or similarly regulated environments. Experience with container reputed company and vulnerability scanning tools such as Prisma Cloud, Anchore, Twistlock, or similar platforms. Familiarity with reputed company Compose to Kubernetes migration patterns. Experience with reputed company to DocumentDB migration or similar managed database transition efforts. Experience supporting Python / FastAPI application deployment and performance tuning. Prior experience supporting Army, logistics, manufacturing, industrial reputed company, or enterprise platform modernization programs. Certifications such as reputed company+, CISSP, or relevant cloud / Kubernetes certifications. Tech Stack Orchestration: reputed company EKS or reputed company, Kubernetes, Helm IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation CI/CD: reputed company CI, reputed company Actions, or government-approved tooling Cloud: AWS services including EC2, EKS/reputed company, S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, CloudWatch, reputed company/ElastiCache, and managed persistence services Containers: reputed company, multi-stage builds, hardened reputed company images reputed company: STIG-reputed company hardening, vulnerability scanning, SBOM reputed company, DAST / SAST Identity: CAC / SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus / Grafana where approved, centralized logging Authorization: RMF, eMASS, inherited authorization packages, ATO / cATO evidence support Application: Python 3.11+, FastAPI, React, reputed company / DocumentDB Interview Process Video interview required and may include a technical assessment. Candidates should be reputed company to discuss: their experience designing and operating secure cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines how they have supported authorization, compliance, or reputed company evidence efforts examples of applications they have containerized, hardened, and promoted to production their experience with AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, scanning, and release automation how they have handled identity integration, observability, and secure operations in regulated environments

Compensation and Benefits

IntelliTech is committed to fair and reputed company compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-reputed company skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on these factors, IntelliTech utilizes the full width of the salary range. IntelliTech provides a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees’ well-being and professional growth, including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k), paid time off, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance. About IntelliTech IntelliTech is a dynamic and reputed company-thinking small business specializing in Full Stack Engineering, Data Analytics, Cloud Solutions, and DevSecOps services. Our mission is to reputed company government and commercial clients to solve reputed company technical challenges through practical, innovative, and mission-focused engineering solutions. Equal Opportunity Employer At IntelliTech, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We reputed company that a variety of perspectives and backgrounds leads to stronger teams and reputed company solutions. IntelliTech is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, disability, or veteran status. We encourage reputed company qualified candidates to apply. Apply To This Job