Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact through innovation, mission-ready technology, and federal deployment expertise. The DevSecOps & Cloud Automation Engineer will build, secure, maintain, and optimize AWS GovCloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD capabilities supporting the U.S. Army Training Information System. The role will also troubleshoot complex technical issues, improve DevSecOps solutions, collaborate across technical teams, and provide hands-on technical guidance.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and standardize GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable jobs, parent/child pipelines, runners, triggers, and integrated security testing
- Build and maintain AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and other automation, emphasizing reusable, resilient, secure, and maintainable solutions
- Create and maintain Ansible Playbooks for Windows and Linux installation, patching, hardening, configuration, and operational support
- Support AWS services and containerized workloads, including EC2, RDS, ECR/EKS, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, and approved/hardened container images such as Iron Bank
- Automate security controls, vulnerability remediation, and validation; support DoD security tooling such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, CloudWatch agents, and related capabilities
- Troubleshoot and independently resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve existing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities while reducing technical debt and redundant solutions
- Collaborate across application, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture teams to develop and implement solutions that support changing ATIS priorities
- Create and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and reusable patterns that enable team self-sufficiency and knowledge transfer
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers while remaining directly engaged in hands-on engineering and implementation
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 7+ years of hands-on DevSecOps, cloud, platform, systems, or infrastructure automation experience
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and Linux administration in production environments
- Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible
- Working knowledge of containers, cloud networking, IAM, and secure infrastructure design
- Experience implementing cybersecurity guardrails, vulnerability remediation, and automated security validation in secure or regulated environments
- Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues
- Strong technical communication, documentation, and independent problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across application, cloud, architecture, and cybersecurity teams and manage competing priorities
- Active DoW Secret security clearance
- Active DoDI 8140-compliant certification (e.g., Security+, CISSP, CISM) or ability to obtain
- Occasional travel required for PI Planning, program events, user engagement sessions, and key milestones
- AWS GovCloud experience and familiarity with NIST, RMF, DoD 8140, and DoD authorization/compliance processes
- Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, ECR, GitOps, and containerized application delivery
- Experience with Army/DoW security and monitoring tools such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, and CloudWatch agents
- Experience standardizing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities at scale and supporting ATO activities
- Experience working within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) or supporting Army, DoD, or other mission-critical systems
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