Infrastructure Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer

SGS Consulting; Elm (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting is seeking a DevOps professional to implement GitOps practices, build and optimize container runtimes, and develop CI/CD pipelines using GitLab. The role includes automating IaC with Terraform/Ansible, maintaining observability stacks, and collaborating with security teams to meet CIS/NIST standards.

You will mentor teammates on Kubernetes, GitOps, and container lifecycle management, while documenting architecture and runbooks to strengthen the organization’s infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain GitOps practices using GitLab or compatible tools to drive declarative infrastructure management and automated rollouts.
• Build, manage, and optimize container runtime environments (Docker, OCI compatible runtimes) and associated networking, storage, and service mesh components.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for building, testing, and promoting container images and Helm/ Kustomize based manifests.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of underlying infrastructure (VMs, storage, load balancers) using IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and security; implement observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and incident response processes.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce pod security standards, vulnerability scanning, and compliance (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, NIST).
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to teammates on best practices for Kubernetes, GitOps, and container lifecycle management.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and standard operating procedures; contribute to knowledge base articles.

Skills

GitOps

Containerization

CI/CD

Scripting

Infrastructure

Kubernetes

HELM

Education

Bachelor\'s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

HELM

Job description

Job Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain GitOps practices using GitLab (or compatible tools) to drive declarative infrastructure management and automated roll outs.
• Build, manage, and optimize container runtime environments (Docker, OCI compatible runtimes) and associated networking, storage, and service mesh components.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for building, testing, and promoting container images and Helm/ Kustomize based manifests.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of underlying infrastructure (VMs, storage, load balancers) using IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and security; implement observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and incident response processes.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce pod security standards, vulnerability scanning, and compliance (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, NIST).
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to teammates on best practices for Kubernetes, GitOps, and container lifecycle management.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and standard operating procedures; contribute to knowledge base articles.

Skills:

• GitOps.
• Containerization.
• CI/CD.
• Scripting.
• Infrastructure.
• Kubernetes, HELM.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelors.