DevSecOps Lead

Govcio LLC•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

17h•Remote

About The Position

GovCIO is seeking an IA Engineer (DSO) to lead a team of data professionals in support of Veterans Affairs ensuring the full lifecycle of the Veteran experience is properly ingested, driving program and process improvements. This position will be fully remote within the United States position.

Requirements

The DSO Engineer performs work requiring in-depth knowledge and understanding of a particular field or technical discipline.
The DSO Engineer may have experience: Conducting independent, complex analysis, concept formulation, and application of new methods.
Demonstrated ability to perform as a recognized expert in specifications and/or utilization in given domain, lead and contributes in the analysis, specification, design, development and implementation/integration of requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific /technical discipline 12 years (or commensurate experience)
4 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
Experience with CICD process
Experience with Terraform Cloud formation, AWS, Azure Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, Spark, GitHub
Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

Active VA public Trust
Familiarity with Agile concepts and best practices a plus.
Familiarity with CloudStrike, Dynatrace, PowerBI.
Previous Department of Veterans Affairs experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Overall responsible for publishing, training, and maintaining DevOps and Infrastructure policies
Implement predefined security and standards processes/tools/configurations
Implement Data Governance aligned with Strategic guidance
Lead Infrastructure as Code Initiatives
Support DSO activities as tasked with priority to those DSO activities and Lead DSO activities with lower priority for delivery
Strategize on the publication Monitoring Guidance, aligned with Operations Management Lead and Lead Data Engineer, for Monitoring and Alerting
Facilitate the Implementation and management of monitoring solutions to proactively identify potential issues and address them before they impact production.
Oversee the Configuration and maintenance of alerting mechanisms to notify relevant teams about critical system events.
Participate in the Implementation and maintenance of performance monitoring tools to track system performance, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and performance issues.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize system performance and resource utilization.
Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation to enhance the efficiency of production support and operational activities.
Stay current with industry’s best practices and emerging technologies relevant to operations management.
Identify and implement fully automated deployment workflows for data pipelines, APIs, and container-based workloads.
Ensure that the production environment complies with relevant regulatory requirements and security standards.
Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities and implement security best practices.
Automate compliance checks, configuration audits and vulnerability reporting.