DevSecOps Cloud Automation Engineer - Clearance Required

LMI•Remote,

7d•$140,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

LMI is seeking an experienced DevSecOps and Cloud Automation Engineer to support the U.S. Army Training Information System (ATIS), which is modernizing Army training systems into a secure, cloud-native enterprise capability. This hands-on individual contributor will work within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) to build, secure, maintain, and optimize automation, infrastructure, and CI/CD capabilities supporting ATIS applications in AWS GovCloud. The role calls for a self-directed problem solver who can resolve complex engineering challenges, improve existing solutions, reduce complexity, communicate clearly, and collaborate across application, cloud, architecture, and cybersecurity teams. The engineer will provide technical direction while personally implementing solutions. LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact through innovation and speed. It invests in technology and prototypes and provides commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies. LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors and is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. The role is remote in the United States and requires occasional travel for PI Planning, program events, user engagement sessions, and key milestones. The target salary range is $140,000–$185,000; actual compensation depends on factors including location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 7 years of hands-on DevSecOps, cloud, platform, systems, or infrastructure automation experience.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and Linux administration in production environments.
Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible.
Working knowledge of containers, cloud networking, IAM, and secure infrastructure design.
Experience implementing cybersecurity guardrails, vulnerability remediation, and automated security validation in secure or regulated environments.
Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues.
Strong technical communication, documentation, and independent problem-solving skills; ability to collaborate across application, cloud, architecture, and cybersecurity teams and manage competing priorities.
Active DoW Secret security clearance.
Active DoDI 8140-compliant certification, such as Security+, CISSP, or CISM, or ability to obtain.

Nice To Haves

AWS GovCloud experience and familiarity with NIST, RMF, DoD 8140, and DoD authorization or compliance processes.
Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, ECR, GitOps, and containerized application delivery.
Experience with Army/DoD security and monitoring tools such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, and CloudWatch agents.
Experience standardizing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities at scale and supporting ATO activities.
Experience working within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) or supporting Army, DoD, or other mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and standardize GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable jobs, parent/child pipelines, runners, triggers, and integrated security testing.
Build and maintain AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and other automation, emphasizing reusable, resilient, secure, and maintainable solutions.
Create and maintain Ansible Playbooks for Windows and Linux installation, patching, hardening, configuration, and operational support.
Support AWS services and containerized workloads, including EC2, RDS, ECR/EKS, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, and approved or hardened container images such as Iron Bank.
Automate security controls, vulnerability remediation, and validation; support DoD security tooling such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, CloudWatch agents, and related capabilities.
Troubleshoot and independently resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues.
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve existing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities while reducing technical debt and redundant solutions.
Collaborate across application, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture teams to develop and implement solutions supporting changing ATIS priorities.
Create and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and reusable patterns that enable team self-sufficiency and knowledge transfer.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers while remaining directly engaged in hands-on engineering and implementation.