SCI Clearance Required with agreement to obtain CI Poly)

North Point Technology•Herndon, VA

8h•Onsite

About The Position

North Point Technology is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support secure cloud operations for a national security mission. The qualified candidate will manage application deployments, drive the change management process, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a DoD/IC cloud environment. The ideal candidate has strong command of AWS, containerization, and security accreditation processes, and is willing to work on-site in a SCIF up to 100% of each week. This position centers on secure software deployment and reliability engineering in a mission-critical cloud environment.

Requirements

Active TS clearance required; must be eligible for CI Polygraph. Applicants without an active TS clearance will not be considered.
Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with CI Polygraph.
Experience in DevSecOps or Site Reliability Engineering in a cloud environment (AWS).
Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines.
Containerized deployments with Docker and ECS.
Core AWS infrastructure services (e.g., Lambda, RDS, VPC, CloudWatch, S3).
Change management and security accreditation in a DoD/IC environment (e.g., CHG, RMF, XACTA).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and deployment rollback procedures.

Nice To Haves

GitLab CI pipeline configuration and management.
EKS (Kubernetes) migrations or hybrid ECS/EKS environments.
National Security Systems (NSS) requirements, including log retention and compliance standards.
MCP server deployment.
Node.js / TypeScript ecosystem (Lambda runtimes, dependency management, layer packaging).
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty).

Responsibilities

Managing application deployments across multiple environments, including deploying code updates, troubleshooting deployment failures, and executing environment-specific configurations.
Owning the Change Management (CHG) process for production by preparing and submitting change requests, shepherding them through ISO, TESR, and Outage Board approval gates, and coordinating deployment windows with stakeholders.
Maintaining security and compliance posture through XACTA documentation, TESR approvals, and enterprise log retention (NSS) requirements.
Operating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and the supporting infrastructure.