DevSecOps Engineer

ATTAINX INC • Herndon, VA

6h • Remote

About The Position

AttainX Inc. is seeking an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to join our federal IT delivery team supporting the USDA Farm Production and Conservation Business Center (FPAC BC) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing CI/CD pipelines, release operations, cloud infrastructure, and security compliance in complex, multi-vendor federal environments. You will serve as a key technical and operational leader, working closely with development teams, platform engineers, government stakeholders, and cross-functional Agile Release Trains to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant application delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, with 8+ years of experience in DevSecOps, release management, systems integration, or production operations in federal IT environments
• Proven experience managing large-scale release operations — including coordinating multiple concurrent enterprise application releases across multi-vendor development teams
• Hands-on experience building, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, including integration of automated unit tests and environment deployments
• Experience with AWS cloud technologies, including migration testing, high-availability architecture, and cloud environment management
• Demonstrated ability to lead security compliance activities, including Privacy Threshold Analyses (PTAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), access control documentation, and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) remediation
• Experience using SonarQube or equivalent static analysis tools to review and resolve audit findings and enforce coding and security standards
• Proficiency administering Windows and Linux virtual machines, middleware configuration, and production environment troubleshooting
• Strong background in cross-functional coordination with development, QA, security, DBA, telecom, and government stakeholder teams
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning including servers, load balancers, IIS, and related components
• Demonstrated ability to supervise or lead technical teams, manage task assignments, and drive process improvements
• Experience working within Agile or SAFe delivery teams, including participation in PI Planning, sprint ceremonies, and ART-level coordination
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to brief government leadership on release status, issue resolution, and risk mitigation
• Ability to obtain and a USDA Public Trust Clearance

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting USDA, FPAC, NRCS, or other federal civilian agencies
• CompTIA Security+ certification (active)
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or higher
• SAFe DevOps, SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, or SAFe Practitioner certification
• Familiarity with FPAC Technical Guidance Framework and federal platform compliance standards
• Experience with data refresh coordination across multiple environments, including fiscal year rollover and county-level data updates
• Experience with application monitoring tools and network/logical deployment diagram maintenance
• Familiarity with deployment scripting and packaging tools

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and execute releases for 20+ enterprise applications per year across multi-vendor environments, ensuring alignment with government technical and architectural standards
• Design, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing, secure deployments, and environment readiness across development, QA, and production environments
• Lead AWS cloud migration testing and provide regular status updates to government program and project managers
• Manage security compliance activities including drafting and submitting PTAs, PIAs, access control forms, and leading POA&M remediation efforts to closure
• Review SonarQube and other static analysis findings, develop remediation plans, and enforce security and coding compliance across development teams
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and hosting teams to manage environment provisioning, application outages, and production system availability
• Coordinate cross-functional activities for major operational events including fiscal year rollovers, county data updates, and multi-environment data refreshes
• Serve as liaison between development teams and federal leadership, providing clear, accurate updates on deployment status, risks, and issue resolution
• Support infrastructure needs including virtual machine administration, middleware configuration, and load balancer and IIS troubleshooting
• Contribute to ART-level planning and process improvement initiatives to enhance communication and delivery efficiency across the program
• Assist with business development initiatives by contributing to proposals and identifying growth opportunities

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits packages including paid vacation, medical, dental, vision, matching 401K plan, tuition/training reimbursement, and Long & Short-Term Disability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level