Sr. DevSecOps Engineer

SUSE RGS•Reston, VA

64d

About The Position

AS A SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER AT RANCHER GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, YOU WILL BE A STRATEGIC TECHNICAL FORCE RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING EXPERT-LEVEL IMPLEMENTATION, ARCHITECTURE, AND ENABLEMENT FOCUSED ON THE RANCHER PORTFOLIO OF PRODUCTS WITHIN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. YOU WILL WORK DIRECTLY WITH OUR CLEARED AGENCY CLIENTS (TS//SCI WITH FSP), PROVIDING DEEP TECHNICAL ENGINEERING SUPPORT, ARCHITECTURAL GUIDANCE, AND HANDS-ON KEYBOARD ENGINEERING ACTIVITY TO ENSURE THEIR COMPLEX CONTAINER, CI/CD, DEVOPS, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND KUBERNETES INITIATIVES ARE SUCCESSFUL. THIS ROLE IS INSTRUMENTAL IN TRANSLATING CUSTOMER NEEDS INTO ROBUST, SECURE, AND SCALABLE PRODUCTION AND MISSION ENVIRONMENTS.

Requirements

Clearance: Requires TS//SCI Clearance w/ Full Scope Poly (Mandatory).
Experience: 5+ years of experience working as a field engineer, professional services consultant, or hands-on DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineer focused on infrastructure and container technology.
Technical Depth: Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and orchestration (Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker) for both operations, development, and security.
Automation: Extensive experience with DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD), and automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
Soft Skills: Excellent communication, consulting, and presentation skills, with proven ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse, cleared end-users both in-person and virtually.
Thought Leadership: Proven experience creating technical content (white papers, blog posts) or presenting at technical forums/events.
Mindset: Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with a proactive, self-motivated, and results-oriented mindset focused on customer success.

Responsibilities

Act as a trusted technical leader and hands-on keyboard engineer for government agency customers, focusing on building, deploying, and maintaining Rancher-based Kubernetes and Container solutions.
Provide expert-level DevOps technical engineering support, architecture design, and troubleshooting assistance across the entire Rancher product portfolio and complimentary open-source technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, CI/CD tools).
Develop technical solutions, proof-of-concepts, and reference architectures to help solve unique and complex customer problems, ensuring solutions meet stringent government security requirements.
Maintain an expert-level understanding of the Rancher Labs portfolio and adjacent technologies like Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling.
Collaborate directly with customers and partners to implement, integrate, and operationalize solutions based on Rancher, ensuring alignment with their long-term IT infrastructure and application development objectives.
Act as an advocate for our customers by understanding their feature requests, use cases, and strategic goals, and communicating this critical feedback to internal Product Management and Engineering teams.
Demonstrate the technical impact and value of Rancher solutions for users through compelling presentations, deep dives, and hands-on workshops.
Develop and maintain strong, long-term technical relationships with key customer stakeholders and partners within strategic accounts.
Act as a public technical representative of RGS by creating technical white papers, blog posts, and videos, and by speaking at industry events, conferences, and seminars to educate and engage the broader community.
Contribute to the development of technical documentation, best practices, and knowledge sharing to support the wider RGS Services organization.
Other duties as assigned.