DevSecOps Engineer — Cloud, Compliance, Kovr AI

Fort Health; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Flexible time off

Annual bonuses

Training stipends

Certification reimbursements

Job summary

Fortreum is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to deploy the Kovr AI Platform with federal and enterprise customers across cloud, hybrid, and classified environments. You will serve as the hands-on technical bridge between customers and Kovr’s engineering team, solving deployment challenges and automating evidence collection.

Role requires 7+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS/Terraform and Kubernetes experience, and the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience
• Hands-on experience architecting AWS infrastructure using Terraform at scale
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), including cluster design, Helm Charts, and GitHub/GitOps workflows
• Direct experience with FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-53/800-171, or DoD SRG compliance environments
• Familiarity with OSCAL or other machine-readable compliance/documentation frameworks
• Experience integrating SAST/DAST or IaC security scanning into a pipeline
• Scripting/automation proficiency (Python, Bash, or similar)
• U.S. Citizenship, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance
• Local to Washington, DC metro area

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting rapid, secure software delivery
• Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, with exposure to Azure/GCP) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Administer and scale containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, ArgoCD)
• Implement and maintain security controls and monitoring aligned to NIST 800-53 and OSCAL-based frameworks
• Design observability strategy (logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs) to support production reliability at scale
• Integrate DevOps tooling (GitHub, JIRA, Splunk, Snyk) into automated compliance and remediation workflows
• Collaborate with existing engineering and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure changes maintain continuous authorization posture
• Support continuous monitoring and audit-readiness activities, including evidence collection and control mapping
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvement in deployment reliability
• Build and maintain documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records
• Represent infrastructure/security in cross-functional planning, including customer-facing technical conversations when needed

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

AWS Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

FedRAMP/NIST

OSCAL

Security scanning (SAST/DAST)

Python/Bash scripting

Security clearance

DC area resident

Security certifications

LLM automation in DevOps

Federal DevSecOps

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Fortreum is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to deploy the Kovr AI Platform with federal and enterprise customers across cloud, hybrid, and classified environments. You will serve as the hands-on technical bridge between customers and Kovr’s engineering team, solving deployment challenges and automating evidence collection.

Role requires 7+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS/Terraform and Kubernetes experience, and the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.