Senior DevSecOps Engineer
About The Position
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is hiring a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to work in Springfield, VA. This role involves building and operating the Cloud Native Platform (CNP), a Digital Engineering Ecosystem for an Intel customer. The position delivers platform configuration, CI/CD integration, automation, infrastructure support, and operational environment management, hardened to Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) standards, across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. The engineer will lead the technical/engineering aspects of major platform workstreams, ensuring deliverables meet quality, time, and budget constraints. The role also includes designing and deploying a unified Cloud Native Platform for Enterprise Architecture and Business Intelligence capabilities, standing up and operating Kubernetes clusters with GitOps, implementing identity and access management and secrets management, hardening the platform according to DoD ZTA guidance, building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, supporting air-gapped environments, delivering CI/CD pipelines and automation, and supporting platform scaling for a growing user base.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- 10+ years of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevSecOps experience.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, RKE2, NKP, or comparable), including GitOps workflows.
- Experience implementing Zero Trust Architecture principles, including identity federation, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
- Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or comparable), and container image hardening/supply chain security.
- U.S. citizens with an active TS/SCI clearance.
- Ability to obtain a CI Poly.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DoD, or Intelligence Community cloud environments and Authority to Operate (ATO)/compliance processes.
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio) and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience with license management tooling and air-gap update/patch management.
- Relevant certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS/Azure cloud certifications, or DevSecOps-focused certifications (e.g., Security+, CASP+).
- Experience supporting help desk/ITSM tooling for platform onboarding and support.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate the Cloud Native Platform (CNP), a Digital Engineering Ecosystem supporting our Intel customer.
- Deliver platform configuration, CI/CD integration, automation, infrastructure support, and operational environment management, hardened to Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) standards, across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.
- Lead the technical/engineering portion of major platform workstreams and ensures deliverables meet established quality standards within time and budget constraints.
- Design and deploy a unified Cloud Native Platform enabling Enterprise Architecture and Business Intelligence capabilities across new and existing multi-cloud environments.
- Stand up and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, RKE2, or NKP) with GitOps-based deployment, service mesh/ingress/egress, and observability tooling.
- Implement identity and access management integration (e.g., Keycloak or Azure Entra ID) and secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault or Azure Key Vault).
- Harden the platform in accordance with DoD Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) guidance, leveraging hardened container images and Kubernetes policy enforcement.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code (IaC/CaC) for platform components.
- Support air-gapped/disconnected environment management and license management tooling.
- Deliver CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational support enabling telemetry, inventory management, and centralized access services as the platform matures.
- Support onboarding, help desk integration, high availability/disaster recovery, and a unified portal experience as the platform scales to support a growing user base and external stakeholders.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
