DevSecOps Engineer - Blu Omega LLC

OpenTalent; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blu Omega is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to design, provision, and support secure AWS environments for a federal program. This remote role collaborates with product teams, QA, and cloud engineering to meet mission-critical requirements.

Responsibilities include implementing IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, integrating CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure for production, pre-production, and testing environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions with product teams and stakeholders to define environment and testing needs.
• Design, provision, configure, and support AWS infrastructure including accounts, VPCs, connectivity, and cloud services.
• Integrate cloud environments with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable technologies.
• Apply IaC and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Support RHEL-based server infrastructure and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

CI/CD

RHEL

Security

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Associate degree

High school diploma

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

DevSecOps Engineer Remote

Blu Omega is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support a federal program focused on mission-critical cloud infrastructure. This role operates within a remote environment and is responsible for designing, provisioning, and supporting secure AWS cloud environments supporting mission-critical federal systems. The position requires experience supporting cloud infrastructure, automation, and collaborative technical integration within a mission-driven environment.

Program Overview This program supports the Department of Veterans Affairs Loan Guaranty Service, helping Veterans, active-duty service members, and eligible spouses buy, build, or retain homes.

Key Details Location: Remote Clearance: VA public trust

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and requirements sessions with product teams, QA, release management, infrastructure, security, and cloud engineering stakeholders to define environment and testing needs.
• Design, provision, configure, and support AWS infrastructure, including accounts, compute resources, VPCs, network connectivity, and supporting cloud services.
• Evaluate AWS account structures and infrastructure configurations for development, testing, pre-production, and production environments.
• Support RHEL-based server infrastructure and troubleshoot infrastructure, OS, connectivity, and configuration issues.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Integrate cloud environments with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable technologies.
• Support environments for automated regression and performance testing, ensuring scalability based on application needs.
• Define test data requirements, including datasets, security restrictions, refresh cadence, and ownership.
• Inventory application interfaces and external connections, determining appropriate connectivity methods for live or stubbed testing environments.
• Support cloud database environments such as PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, and evaluate data and infrastructure dependencies.
• Plan, document, and maintain technical architecture, environment configuration, and implementation details.
• Ensure solutions adhere to federal security, infrastructure, change, and release management standards.
• Troubleshoot and validate infrastructure configurations, deployments, and environment setup.
• Collaborate with federal clients and technical teams to support mission-critical operations.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree; 4+ years with an associate's degree; or 6+ years with a high school diploma.
• Hands-on experience designing, provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure.
• Support for RHEL-based environments.