Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

The Work

At ICF our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud cybersecurity enterprise architecture data modernization and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.

Join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agencys enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage analytics governance and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow the team is focused on migrating legacy workloads streamlining onboarding and support expanding platform capabilities and helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale.

The DevSecOps Lead provides technical leadership and day-to-day delivery oversight for platform engineering DevSecOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) infrastructure provisioning release execution and core platform operations. This role owns the implementation of approved cloud architecture and security patterns coordinates platform activities across engineers and administrators and ensures infrastructure changes are repeatable auditable testable and supportable. The DevSecOps Lead partners closely with the Cloud Data Architect Security/RMF/ATO Lead and Agile Delivery Manager to ensure platform delivery excellence operational readiness incident management and successful release execution.

Job Location: Remote

If you accept this position you should note that company security monitoring access controls and client requirements may apply including restrictions on foreign locations foreign IP addresses and personal VPN connections where contractually required.

What You Will Do:

• Lead platform engineering DevSecOps SRE infrastructure provisioning and platform operations activities.

• Oversee implementation and maintenance of secure scalable and resilient cloud platform environments.

• Direct CI/CD pipeline design automation initiatives release management activities and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) implementations.

• Ensure platform changes adhere to approved architecture security compliance and operational standards.

• Coordinate engineering and operations teams to deliver repeatable auditable and testable infrastructure solutions.

• Monitor platform health reliability availability performance and operational metrics using SRE best practices.

• Lead incident response root cause analysis problem management and continuous service improvement efforts.

• Collaborate with security architecture and delivery leadership to achieve release readiness and deployment objectives.

• Establish and maintain automated deployment configuration management and environment provisioning processes.

• Support modernization initiatives involving cloud-native platforms OpenShift environments containerized applications and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies.

• Provide technical leadership mentoring and guidance to DevSecOps engineers platform engineers and administrators.

• Prepare technical status reports operational metrics and briefings for client and internal stakeholders.

What You Will Bring With You:

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.

• Candidate must reside in the U.S. be authorized to work in the U.S. all work must be performed in the U.S. and must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Cloud Engineering Information Systems Systems Engineering Cybersecurity or a related technical field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelors degree.

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience supporting cloud platform operations DevSecOps platform engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or related technical disciplines. Masters degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading DevSecOps platform engineering cloud operations or infrastructure engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

• Deep experience leading the implementation and operation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions utilizing Terraform including reusable modules infrastructure standards policy enforcement environment provisioning and automated platform deployment patterns.

What We Would Like You To Bring With You:

• Extensive experience designing deploying securing and operating Databricks environments including workspace administration Unity Catalog implementation access management platform policies cluster governance and automated provisioning.

• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Git and enterprise release automation frameworks.

• Experience implementing and governing cloud platform operations across Azure Government Azure Commercial AWS GovCloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.

• Experience leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including observability monitoring incident response operational readiness service-level objectives (SLOs) service-level indicators (SLIs) reliability engineering and production support models.

• Experience overseeing release execution deployment governance rollback readiness operational acceptance and release evidence collection within regulated environments.

• Experience implementing platform security controls secrets management certificate management vulnerability management policy-as-code and automated compliance validation.

• Experience supporting large-scale data analytics AI/ML and cloud modernization initiatives leveraging Databricks Delta Lake Azure Data Factory Azure Machine Learning Power BI and related technologies.

• Experience with identity and access management solutions including Microsoft Entra ID RBAC service principals managed identities federation and privileged access controls.

• Experience leading platform operational processes including environment management change control incident management problem management capacity planning disaster recovery and service continuity.

• Experience collaborating with Cloud Data Architects Security Leads RMF/ATO personnel Agile Delivery Managers SRE teams QA teams and Government stakeholders to ensure secure auditable and supportable platform operations.

• Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture RMF NIST 800-53 FedRAMP FIPS cybersecurity governance and Federal compliance requirements.

• Experience establishing engineering standards mentoring technical teams driving technical decision-making and implementing operational best practices across large engineering organizations.

• Experience supporting highly available mission-critical production environments requiring scalability resiliency and operational excellence.

• Experience supporting Federal government healthcare or other highly regulated environments.

• Experience working within Agile Scrum SAFe and enterprise-scale delivery organizations.

Professional Skills:

• Strong leadership and team coordination skills.

• Excellent analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and quality.

• Commitment to continuous improvement automation and operational excellence.

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