Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead

The Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead will collaborate with software developers, architects, testers, cybersecurity personnel, release management staff, and operations teams to resolve delivery issues and support controlled releases. This is a hands-on technical lead role aligned with the Journeyman labor category., The Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead will:

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting application builds, automated checks, testing, packaging, and deployment.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code definitions and application environment configurations.

• Promote consistent, reproducible configurations across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

• Integrate automated functional, integration, regression, and approved security checks into delivery pipelines.

• Configure pipeline quality gates and retain execution results supporting release decisions.

• Maintain artifact repositories, versioning, dependencies, and promotion controls.

• Ensure promoted artifacts remain traceable to source revisions, build records, test results, and approvals.

• Develop and maintain deployment scripts, environment validation checks, and rollback automation.

• Coordinate release execution with development, testing, cybersecurity, configuration management, and operations personnel.

• Validate application health and expected behavior following deployment or rollback.

• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, build errors, configuration inconsistencies, artifact issues, and deployment problems.

• Implement approved access controls, service accounts, secrets handling, and logging for delivery tools and environments.

• Coordinate remediation of issues identified by automated checks and security reviews.

• Maintain version-controlled pipeline definitions, infrastructure code, scripts, and configuration records.

• Document build procedures, environment dependencies, deployment instructions, rollback steps, and troubleshooting guidance.

• Provide technical coordination for DevSecOps work, including dependencies, impediments, and delivery priorities.

• Support release-readiness reviews, operational handoffs, and knowledge transfer.

• Improve delivery reliability and efficiency using pipeline metrics, incident findings, and lessons learned.

The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Minimum of six years of relevant professional experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.

• Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC).

• Experience implementing or integrating automated testing.

• Experience configuring and supporting secure application environments.

• Experience with artifact management and controlled artifact promotion.

• Experience developing or maintaining deployment and rollback automation.

• Ability to maintain automated checks and application environment configurations.

• Relevant cloud or DevOps certification.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software delivery environments.

• Experience with approved CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or comparable infrastructure and configuration automation tools.

• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native application deployment.

• Experience integrating code analysis, dependency scanning, secrets detection, or container security checks into pipelines.

• Experience with artifact repositories, package registries, and software supply-chain traceability.

• Familiarity with deployment strategies that support controlled promotion, recovery, and reduced service disruption.

• Experience coordinating release activities across multiple development teams.

• Strong scripting, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and cross-team communication skills.