Job Title: DevSecOps Engineer
Location: Remote
Clearance: Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
Security Clearance: USDA Public Trust
AttainX Inc. is seeking an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to join our federal IT delivery team supporting the USDA. The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing CI/CD pipelines, release operations, cloud infrastructure, and security compliance in complex, multi-vendor federal environments. You will serve as a key technical and operational leader, working closely with development teams, platform engineers, government stakeholders, and cross-functional Agile Release Trains to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant application delivery.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, with 8+ years of experience in DevSecOps, release management, systems integration, or production operations in federal IT environments
- Proven experience managing large-scale release operations — including coordinating multiple concurrent enterprise application releases across multi-vendor development teams
- Hands-on experience building, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, including integration of automated unit tests and environment deployments
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies, including migration testing, high-availability architecture, and cloud environment management
- Demonstrated ability to lead security compliance activities, including Privacy Threshold Analyses (PTAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), access control documentation, and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) remediation
- Experience using SonarQube or equivalent static analysis tools to review and resolve audit findings and enforce coding and security standards
- Proficiency administering Windows and Linux virtual machines, middleware configuration, and production environment troubleshooting
- Strong background in cross-functional coordination with development, QA, security, DBA, telecom, and government stakeholder teams
- Experience with infrastructure provisioning including servers, load balancers, IIS, and related components
- Demonstrated ability to supervise or lead technical teams, manage task assignments, and drive process improvements
- Experience working within Agile or SAFe delivery teams, including participation in PI Planning, sprint ceremonies, and ART-level coordination
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to brief government leadership on release status, issue resolution, and risk mitigation
- US Citizen or Permanent Resident eligible to obtain a USDA Public Trust Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting USDA, FPAC, NRCS, or other federal civilian agencies
- CompTIA Security+ certification (active)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or higher
- SAFe DevOps, SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, or SAFe Practitioner certification
- Familiarity with FPAC Technical Guidance Framework and federal platform compliance standards
- Experience with data refresh coordination across multiple environments, including fiscal year rollover and county-level data updates
- Experience with application monitoring tools and network/logical deployment diagram maintenance
- Familiarity with deployment scripting and packaging tools
Core Responsibilities:
- Plan, coordinate, and execute releases for 20+ enterprise applications per year across multi-vendor environments, ensuring alignment with government technical and architectural standards
- Design, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing, secure deployments, and environment readiness across development, QA, and production environments
- Lead AWS cloud migration testing and provide regular status updates to government program and project managers
- Manage security compliance activities including drafting and submitting PTAs, PIAs, access control forms, and leading POA&M remediation efforts to closure
- Review SonarQube and other static analysis findings, develop remediation plans, and enforce security and coding compliance across development teams
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and hosting teams to manage environment provisioning, application outages, and production system availability
- Coordinate cross-functional activities for major operational events including fiscal year rollovers, county data updates, and multi-environment data refreshes
- Serve as liaison between development teams and federal leadership, providing clear, accurate updates on deployment status, risks, and issue resolution
- Support infrastructure needs including virtual machine administration, middleware configuration, and load balancer and IIS troubleshooting
- Contribute to ART-level planning and process improvement initiatives to enhance communication and delivery efficiency across the program
- Assist with business development initiatives by contributing to proposals and identifying growth opportunities
About Us:
AttainX Inc. is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB), Economically Disadvantaged WOSB (EDWOSB), CMMC Level 2, CMMI Level 3, ISO 9001:2015 certified QMS and Silver Level SAFe Partner. For more than 15 years, AttainX, Inc. has delivered emergent technologies, software products, and high-quality services that meet the needs of our Federal Government customers.
The last 4 years have shown significant company growth as we have increased our contracts portfolio and hold the “Best in Class” contract vehicles, GSA MAS and OASIS Small Business and 8(a) Pools 1, 2 and 3. In addition, we are prime on several Agency Specific IDIQs and BPAs with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Energy, Navy, Health and Human Service, USCIS and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
AttainX is dedicated to quality and best practices for the services we provide. We understand our people are the key ingredient to ensuring our customers Mission and Goals are met with excellence.
Benefits:
Competitive compensation and benefits packages including paid vacation, medical, dental, vision, matching 401K plan, tuition/training reimbursement, and Long & Short-Term Disability.
EEO Commitment:
AttainX is an equal employment opportunity employer, committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, VEVRAA and Section 503, or other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law. These protections also extend to applicants.
Accommodations:
Individuals with a disability who would like to request a reasonable workplace accommodation may send an email to Human Resources indicating the specifics of the assistance needed.
Physical Demands:
Sitting and working on a computer for long, continuous periods each day; effective communications by telephone, email, and face-to-face; standing, walking, and sitting; handling and feeling objects or controls; reaching; talking and hearing; lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds; and specific vision abilities including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus.
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.