DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer - Clearance Required
About The Position
LMI is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer with strong DevSecOps expertise to support a U.S. Army enterprise program. The role designs, builds, and operates secure cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline environments that power mission-critical Army systems and platforms. The position is accountable for the availability, security, and performance of the environments used by Army teams to support enterprise systems. An active Secret security clearance and an onsite presence at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, are required. LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact through innovation and speed. It invests in technology and prototypes ahead of need 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.
Requirements
- At least 3 to 5 years of dedicated experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, or Cloud/Systems Engineering, with a track record of managing production environments.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services and deep operational knowledge of EKS, including Kubernetes deployments and service networking, and EC2 instance management.
- Experience building, securing, and maintaining complex pipelines using GitLab CI/CD.
- Proficiency in Python or Bash for automating system configurations, database backups, or API-driven tool integrations.
- Practical experience integrating security tools—including SAST/DAST, container scanning, and secret detection—into CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, mentor junior team members, and collaborate effectively with testing and QA engineering leads.
- Active Secret security clearance.
- Ability to work onsite at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience installing, configuring, or upgrading ERP software testing tools.
- Experience managing cloud environments using Terraform.
- Familiarity with AWS RDS configuration, tuning, and migrations supporting enterprise test repositories.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize secure GitLab CI/CD pipelines, applying DevSecOps principles through automated vulnerability scanning and compliance gates.
- Standardize deployment templates and pipeline workflows to improve development velocity across the team.
- Lead deployment, configuration, and scaling of ERP testing platforms, including Tricentis Tosca, qTest, NeoLoad, LiveCompare, and other tools.
- Manage and troubleshoot complex hybrid deployments, ensuring interoperability between containerized microservices on EKS and monolithic applications on EC2.
- Manage and scale AWS infrastructure, optimizing workloads running on EKS, EC2, S3, and RDS.
- Implement and enforce cloud security controls, including advanced IAM policies, VPC security, and least-privilege access.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting across EKS and EC2 nodes to support uptime of critical testing infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot environment-related failures and performance bottlenecks as a key technical resource.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
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