DevSecOps Lead

bln24; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

BLN24, based in McLean, Virginia, is looking for a DevSecOps Lead to enhance their AWS environments for government clients. This role involves managing a team, architecting cloud services, and ensuring high availability operations.

Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in IT, proficiency in AWS GovCloud, and solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, Python, and infrastructure automation. BLN24 offers flexibility and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in cloud architecture and engineering.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and architect AWS GovCloud application environment.
• Lead team of DevSecOps engineers.
• Build and configure CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

AWS GovCloud

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Security and compliance

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field

Tools

Terraform

Splunk

New Relic

Jenkins

Job description

Job Title: DevSecOps Lead

Company: BLN24

BLN24 is an award‑winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end‑state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.

Position Overview

BLN24 is seeking a DevSecOps Lead to join our team. The DevSecOps Lead will join our project team to enhance and maintain AWS environments, manage cloud performance and security for government clients, including setting up the environment, databases and AWS services, CI/CD pipelines and ensure high availability operations of AWS environments. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience with AWS GovCloud, code deployments, CI/CD pipelines, security, containerization and serverless computing.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and architect government client’s target AWS GovCloud application environment.
• Manage team of DevSecOps engineers and provide technical guidance and support throughout the project lifecycle. This includes assigning tasks, reviewing code/configuration, and ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Architect and engineer AWS GovCloud services utilizing containers and serverless computing.
• Build and configure CI/CD pipelines and automated code deployments to target environments.
• Create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to deploy services.
• Define and enforce Git branching strategies to support parallel development, release management, and controlled deployments across environments.
• Provision and configure AWS Services, such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS and other cloud services.
• Provide ROMs (Rough Order of Magnitude) and refined cost models for proposals and migrations.
• Create and update reference architecture documentation, including specifications and diagrams.
• Optimize and harden target environments to ensure seamless operations of highly transactional environment.
• Support ATO documentation and security reviews.
• Provide technology briefings and project status updates for client technical stakeholders.
• Generate reporting on cloud performance, usage, and cost analysis.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in cloud architecture, engineering, system, application administration.
• Experience with Amazon AWS GovCloud and knowledge of AWS services and structures.
• Experience with Lambda functions and ability to develop scripts using Python.
• Experience automating deployments and using AWS services to optimize migration.
• Experience with Splunk, New Relic, Crowd Strike, RHEL, Puppet, Jenkins, Fortify and/or Nexus.
• Ability to set up databases and migrate data using AWS services.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent architecture skills and ability to develop architecture and AWS diagrams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Security + certification
• AWS Certifications

What BLN24 brings to the Game

• You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.
• Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.

BLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.