Sr. DevOps Engineer III

Knowledge Management Inc. (KMI) has the leadership and experience to deliver innovative technology logistics and management solutions to meet real mission requirements. KMI is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) that specializes in Logistics Warehouse Services Distance Learning/Training Enterprise Solutions Financial Management Support Program Management Intelligence Analysis & Threat Assessment and Data Analytics/Operations Research. Since 1998 our solutions and services have helped our clients improve performance drive cost and operational effectives and map technology needs for tomorrows requirements.

Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer III

Location: onsite Reston VA

Position: 1

Duration: Multi-year program

Start date: ASAP

Security Clearance: TS/SCI w/CI Poly

Salary: Please provide your salary requirement

As Sr. DevOps Engineer III youll play a critical role in designing implementing and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle ensuring the delivery of high-quality secure and reliable software solutions.

What youll do:

• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to design and implement automatic technical solutions across multiple classification environments working independently or as part of the team to address complex technical requirements.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines from scratch in GitLab CI and Jenkins with integrated security scanning and STIG compliance validation providing expert guidance to development teams on pipeline troubleshooting and implementing DevSecOps best practices.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates primarily using CloudFormation to architect highly available resilient and secure DevSecOps tool infrastructure across AWS environments (GovCloud C2S TC2S) while ensuring STIG compliance and guiding junior engineers on IaC best practices.
• Lead advanced troubleshooting efforts by analyzing system and application logs using Linux command-line tools conducting root cause analysis for complex issues and developing mitigation strategies for service degradation.
• Provide expert security guidance to development teams on secure coding practices STIG compliance vulnerability remediation and other best practices in support of their ATO efforts.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews technical guidance and knowledge sharing while maintaining technical documentation promoting best practices and fostering continuous team improvement.

What youll need to succeed:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with CI poly.
• Minimum IAT Level 2 Certification (CompTIA Security GSEC SSCP etc)
• 10 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role with a strong focus on infrastructure automation scalability and reliability across the software development lifecycle.
• Expert experience with DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines containerization and other automation tools (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Artifactory SonarQubeand Prisma Cloud).
• Expert experience delivering DevSecOps services across multiple classified domains
• Expert understanding of AWS capabilities(EC2 S3 IAM RDS etc) and architecting securecloud-based infrastructure and services. (familiarity with other cloud platforms a plus)
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Strong experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python Bash) in a Linux environment (RHEL Oracle Linux or similar)

Benefits: All full-time employees are eligible to participate in our benefits programs:

• Health dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
• Group Term Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• Short and Long-term disability insurance

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.

E-Verify Statement. Knowledge Management Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work KMI is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision. Knowledge Management Inc. will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Disability Statement. If you have a disability and need reasonable accommodation or assistance at any point in the application or onboarding process please email us at .

Required Experience:

Senior IC