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Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer

US - VA, McLean💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and operate AWS-based platform patterns, shared DevSecOps services, pipelines, and automation to enable secure, iterative modernization of a large-scale GrantSolutions platform while supporting legacy system continuity.

Role type

Senior IC Platform/DevSecOps Engineer

Builds

AWS cloud platform capabilities, secure CI/CD pipelines, IaC environments, and observability tools for a modernization program

Domain

Federal IT / Cloud Engineering / DevSecOps

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS services (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Systems Manager), CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash), security integration (vulnerability scanning, secrets management, static analysis), observability (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards), networking (VPC, load balancers, DNS, WAF, VPNs), SDLC and agile practices

Preferred skills

Federal/DoD Public Trust clearance, experience with FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, NIST 800-53 compliance frameworks, experience with government cloud modernization programs

Technologies

AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog

Responsibilities

Design, build, automate, secure, and operate AWS cloud platform capabilities; Implement and maintain modern DevSecOps practices including secure CI/CD pipelines and automated security gates; Develop and improve Infrastructure as Code for repeatable environment provisioning; Partner with engineering teams to standardize reusable pipeline templates and automation scripts; Embed security early across the software delivery lifecycle; Implement observability practices including centralized logging, metrics, and alerts; Support secure environment management including access control, encryption, and disaster recovery; Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, and operational issues to drive continuous improvement

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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