Senior DevSecOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Serve as a senior individual contributor supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs RISE program.

• Lead engineering and partner teams in the integration with the Amazon MSK (Kafka) event bus from the design phase to production cutover.

• Contribute to the design, review, and governance of schemas for both producers and consumers.

• Define and document integration patterns, onboarding guides, and criteria for production readiness.

• Facilitate cross-team and cross-program integration efforts.

• Develop and uphold secure, automated CI/CD pipelines that include security scanning, testing, and compliance checks.

• Advocate for secrets management, dependency and container scanning, least-privilege access, and auditable deployments.

• Ensure that delivery practices adhere to VA security and compliance standards.

• Manage and enhance AWS infrastructure that supports the event bus and related services using Terraform.

• Share responsibilities for MSK cluster operations, including capacity planning, topic and partition strategies, scaling, upgrades, and cost efficiency.

• Automate deployment, configuration management, and release processes.

• Ensure that streaming infrastructure and integrations include metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing capabilities.

• Provide support for production operations, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.

• Assist teams in designing resilient and replayable producers and consumers that handle failures gracefully.

• Collaborate with product owners, engineering leads, and VA stakeholders to execute integration tasks.

• Mentor engineers in event-driven architecture and DevSecOps methodologies.

• Enhance onboarding processes, schema governance, pipeline security, reliability, observability, and incident response practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).

• Over 8 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.

• Hands-on production experience with Amazon MSK and/or Apache Kafka, specifically in cluster operations, topic and partition design, schema management, and producer/consumer development or tuning; required.

• Experience in designing or supporting event-driven architectures at an enterprise level.

• Proven success in guiding technical efforts that span multiple teams.

• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services; GovCloud experience is preferred.

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications.

• Experience in supporting high-availability, mission-critical production environments.

• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and secure software delivery practices.

• Experience working in Agile software development settings.

• Knowledge of Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent solutions.

• Experience with Docker and containerization technologies.

• Preferred experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.

• Proficient in Linux administration.

• Experience with performance monitoring and observability tools.

• Familiarity with Git source control.

• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar languages.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development and operational tools.

• Knowledge of AI-driven observability, incident management, and cloud optimization solutions.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination.

• Active Public Trust or a recently completed Federal background investigation is strongly preferred.

• Preferred experience includes Federal agency, VA, shared Kafka/MSK platform, schema governance, Federal DevSecOps, ATO/RMF, VA platform, multi-vendor, FISMA Moderate-to-High, and relevant cloud certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and market-leading bonus opportunities.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, with a substantial portion of the premium covered by IronArch.

• Contributions to a Health Reimbursement Account for eligible high deductible health plans.

• Company-provided healthcare concierge assistance.

• 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions and immediate vesting.

• Accumulate 20 days of PTO each calendar year.

• Enjoy 11 paid holidays.

• Access to bereavement, jury duty, parental, and military leave.

• Participate in sabbatical programs.

• Benefit from company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.

• Company-paid life insurance coverage.

• Optional life, accidental, and indemnity income replacement benefits.

• Professional development reimbursement available.

• Health club reimbursement offered.

• Matching donation program and annual philanthropic activities.

• Pet insurance available.

• Occasional travel may be necessary for program meetings, planning sessions, or production support activities.