DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer - Clearance Required

LMI • Fort Belvoir, VA

9d • $110,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

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 pipelines that power mission-critical Army systems and platforms. The engineer is accountable for the availability, security, and performance of the environments used by Army teams. The position requires an active Secret security clearance and an onsite presence at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Requirements

• At least 3 to 5 years of dedicated experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, or Cloud/Systems Engineering, including managing production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and operational knowledge of EKS, including Kubernetes deployments and service networking, and EC2 instance management.
• Proven experience building, securing, and maintaining complex GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Bash for automating system configurations, database backups, or API-driven tool integrations.
• Practical experience integrating security tools such as SAST/DAST, container scanning, and secret detection into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, mentor junior team members, and interface effectively with testing and QA engineering leads.
• Active Secret security clearance.

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 CI/CD pipelines within GitLab, 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, and LiveCompare.
• Manage and troubleshoot hybrid deployments, ensuring interoperability between containerized microservices on EKS and monolithic applications on EC2.
• Manage and scale AWS infrastructure, optimizing workloads on EKS, EC2, S3, and RDS.
• Implement and enforce cloud security controls, including 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.
• Work independently, mentor junior team members, and interface with testing and QA engineering leads.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed