DevOps Engineer II: Cloud Reliability & Security (FedRAMP)

RiskForce LLC; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

RiskForce LLC is seeking a DevSecOps-focused engineer to own reliability, security, and scalability of cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will automate provisioning, enforce security controls, and shift left on compliance for federal/regulated customers.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi, and operate Kubernetes-based production clusters. Strong AWS/Azure, scripting, and FedRAMP/NIST knowledge are required.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infra engineering.
• Hands-on AWS or Azure production experience; GovCloud preferred.
• IaC proficiency with Terraform or equivalent tooling.
• Docker, Kubernetes in production.
• CI/CD pipelines development (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Scripting in Bash or Python for automation.
• Strong networking knowledge: firewalls, load balancers, DNS.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or CMMC.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, builds, and zero-downtime deployments across multiple environments.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Operate and optimize container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, ECS) for production workloads.
• Implement compliance hardening across environments to support federal security frameworks including FedRAMP and NIST 800-53.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability stacks to ensure platform health and rapid incident detection.
• Manage secrets management solutions, IAM policies, and environment isolation strategies.
• Lead incident response efforts and develop runbooks, post-mortems, and operational documentation.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to embed security into every stage of the software delivery lifecycle.
• Evaluate and implement tooling improvements to increase deployment velocity, reliability, and auditability.

Skills

DevSecOps

SRE

CI/CD

Automation

Security by design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or IS

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Flux

Splunk

ELK

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

CKA/CKAD/CKS

Job description

RiskForce LLC is seeking a DevSecOps-focused engineer to own reliability, security, and scalability of cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will automate provisioning, enforce security controls, and shift left on compliance for federal/regulated customers.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi, and operate Kubernetes-based production clusters. Strong AWS/Azure, scripting, and FedRAMP/NIST knowledge are required.