About the company
Our partner is looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer based in United States.
This role offers the opportunity to strengthen a mission-critical, event-driven platform supporting complex Federal Government programs.
Responsibilities
- Guide engineering and partner teams through end-to-end integration with the Amazon MSK/Kafka event bus, from initial architecture discussions and schema design through production cutover.
- Contribute to schema governance, data contracts, integration patterns, onboarding documentation, and production-readiness standards that make future integrations more consistent and efficient.
- Coordinate cross-team and cross-program integration initiatives, helping teams resolve technical challenges and establish durable agreements.
- Build and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar technologies, incorporating security scanning, testing, compliance controls, and auditable deployment practices.
- Champion DevSecOps principles, including secrets management, dependency and container scanning, least-privilege access, and secure software delivery aligned with Federal security requirements.
- Operate and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting the event platform and related services through Infrastructure as Code, primarily using Terraform.
- Support Amazon MSK cluster operations, including capacity planning, topic and partition strategy, scaling, upgrades, performance, and cost optimization.
- Strengthen reliability and observability through effective metrics, logging, alerting, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Help engineering teams design resilient event producers and consumers with appropriate replayability, graceful failure, and high availability.
- Partner with product owners, engineering leads, and government stakeholders to prioritize and deliver integration work within a complex multi-vendor environment.
- Mentor engineers on event-driven architecture, Kafka practices, DevSecOps, and secure cloud engineering.
- Leverage AI-assisted development and operational tools to improve automation, monitoring, deployment efficiency, and infrastructure insights while maintaining appropriate security and compliance standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Proven hands-on production experience with Amazon MSK and/or Apache Kafka, including cluster operations, topic and partition design, schema management, and producer/consumer development or optimization.
- Experience designing or supporting enterprise-scale event-driven architectures and working with technologies such as Schema Registry and Kafka Connect or comparable solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, facilitate agreement, remove integration blockers, and maintain high engineering standards.
- Strong experience with AWS services, with AWS GovCloud experience preferred, as well as hands-on Terraform experience for Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience designing and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and secure software delivery, including experience with security, compliance, and automated controls.
- Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments and working within Agile development methodologies.
- Proficiency with Docker, Linux administration, Git, and scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools for infrastructure automation, operational analysis, monitoring, or development is valued.
- Federal Government experience, particularly with the Department of Veterans Affairs, is preferred, as is experience supporting shared Kafka platforms used by multiple independent teams.
- Familiarity with Federal security and compliance frameworks, including ATO and RMF processes, is a strong plus.
- AWS Professional, DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes, Terraform, or comparable certifications are highly desirable.
- U.S. citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination. An active Public Trust or recently completed Federal background investigation is strongly preferred.
- Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, and mentoring skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and operate effectively within complex, multi-vendor environments.
Conditions
- Competitive salary: $138,000–$151,000 annually, with final compensation determined by skills, experience, and scope.