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Senior DevSecOps Platform Engineer

Washington, DCFull-time$130k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Designing and operating a secure, multi-account AWS cloud platform using GitOps and Infrastructure as Code for US federal government missions.

Role type

Senior DevSecOps Platform Engineer

Builds

Production-grade cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure container workloads on AWS EKS

Domain

US Federal Government / Cloud Security & Compliance

Required skills

Terraform, AWS (EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, Secrets Manager), Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), GitLab CI, DevSecOps (SAST, container scanning, policy-as-code), FISMA/NIST 800-53 compliance

Preferred skills

AWS Control Tower/Organizations, Container supply-chain security (SBOM, image signing), Observability (CloudWatch, Grafana), FedRAMP/GovCloud experience

Technologies

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab, OPA/conftest, Helm

Responsibilities

Own Terraform modules and state for multi-account AWS estate; Operate Amazon EKS clusters including networking and workload identity; Run and extend GitOps delivery model with ArgoCD; Build and harden CI/CD pipelines with security scanning and policy-as-code; Advance security posture against NIST 800-53 and support Authority to Operate (ATO); Help design migration to federal multi-account landing zone; Mentor mid and junior engineers on change control and engineering discipline

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC