Principal DevSecOps Engineer / Lead

CONCEPT SOLUTIONS LLC•Reston, VA

15h•$250,000 - $275,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Concept Solutions, LLC (CS) is seeking an experienced Principal DevSecOps Engineer / Lead to provide platform engineering leadership for a mission application modernization program supporting a Department of Defense (DoD) customer. This position is contingent upon contract award. In this critical leadership role, you will oversee infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, environment promotion, and automated security evidence generation. You will also provide technical direction to the DevSecOps engineer and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), establishing release engineering and observability standards across the modernized platform and sustained applications. This opportunity is ideal for an accomplished DevSecOps professional with extensive experience supporting federal systems who thrives in complex, security-focused environments and enjoys leading engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions.

Requirements

Minimum of 12 years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering.
Demonstrated experience leading CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) for federal systems.
Experience supporting federal systems using AWS GovCloud and Kubernetes.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with OpenTofu, Helm, GitLab CI, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry.
Experience with automated Department of Defense security authorization evidence generation.
Active Secret security clearance or higher.
Tier 5 eligibility if privileged administration is required.

Responsibilities

Own infrastructure as code (IaC), the CI/CD pipeline within the customer's GitLab environment, environment promotion from Impact Level 4 (IL4) to Impact Level 5 (IL5), and the security and compliance evidence generated with every code merge.
Direct the DevSecOps engineer and both Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), providing technical leadership and establishing release engineering and observability standards for the platform and sustained applications.
Own and coordinate the environment plan with the customer's cloud provider, including management of the Government dependency list for accounts, access, and infrastructure.