Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer

Socket.dev; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer to advance our GrantSolutions platform modernization. You will shape AWS‑based platform patterns, secure pipelines, and automation to enable multiple teams and vendors while maintaining legacy integration during transition.

Responsibilities include cloud platform engineering, CI/CD, IaC, security integration, observability, and production readiness in an iterative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of five (5) years in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, or related roles.
• Hands-on AWS experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Systems Manager).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• IaC experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• DevSecOps practices including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, and secure delivery.
• Security controls integrated into pipelines (static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, etc.).
• AWS identity, networking, logging, encryption, and least-privilege principles.
• Containerization with Docker and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Experience deploying, configuring environments, release automation, and production support.
• Observability through monitoring dashboards, logging, and tracing.
• Linux admin, scripting in Python or Bash.
• Excellent collaboration with engineers, architects, security teams, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, secure, and operate AWS cloud platform capabilities for large-scale modernization.
• Implement secure CI/CD pipelines with automated gates and release automation.
• Develop and maintain IaC for repeatable environment provisioning.
• Support cloud-native delivery patterns and observability across platforms.
• Standardize reusable pipeline templates and environment configurations.
• Embed security early in the SDLC and automate compliance evidence.
• Establish production readiness and disaster recovery practices.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud engineering

CI/CD

Automation

Containerization

IaC

Security practices

Observability

SRE concepts

Python/Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

Lambda

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

IAM

Systems Manager

Job description

Job Family:

Development Operations

Travel Required:

None

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

We are seeking a strong Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer to support the GrantSolutions platform modernization effort by building and improving the cloud engineering, automation, deployment, security, and operational capabilities needed to deliver modern software at scale. This role will help establish and operate the AWS-based platform patterns, shared DevSecOps services, pipelines, controls, and automation that enable multiple Scrum teams and vendor partners to deliver securely and consistently while supporting continuity of the legacy system throughout the transition.

The Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer will support cloud platform engineering, CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, security integration, environment management, release enablement, observability, and operational readiness in an iterative modernization environment. This individual will help deliver a secure and automated engineering platform that enables new vendor-delivered capabilities to integrate with legacy components as the modernized platform is built out over time. The role requires hands‑on AWS cloud experience, strong automation skills, practical DevSecOps judgment, and close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, project managers, solution architects, security teams, vendors, executive leadership, and Federal stakeholders to align platform delivery with architecture standards, governance expectations, release readiness, compliance requirements, and long‑term modernization objectives.

• Design, build, automate, secure, and operate AWS cloud platform capabilities that support a large‑scale GrantSolutions platform modernization program delivered through iterative agile execution.
• Implement and maintain modern DevSecOps practices, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated build and deployment workflows, quality gates, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and release automation.
• Develop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or comparable technologies to support repeatable, auditable, and compliant environment provisioning.
• Support cloud‑native application delivery patterns using AWS services, container platforms, serverless services, managed databases, networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and security services.
• Partner with software engineering teams to standardize reusable pipeline templates, deployment patterns, environment configurations, shared libraries, and automation scripts that improve delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.
• Embed security early and continuously across the software delivery lifecycle through automated static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, configuration validation, and compliance evidence generation.
• Implement and support observability practices, including centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, operational health checks, and production readiness monitoring across modernized and legacy‑integrated capabilities.
• Support secure environment management, including configuration management, access control, network segmentation, encryption, secrets handling, backup considerations, disaster recovery support, and change/release coordination.
• Collaborate with solution architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise architecture guidance, FedRAMP Moderate expectations, NIST controls, governance standards, and program security requirements.
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, deployment, integration, performance, and operational issues; identify root causes; implement automation or process improvements; and support continuous improvement of the engineering platform.

What You Will Need:

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of FIVE (5) years of experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, and Systems Manager.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience implementing and supporting DevSecOps practices, including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure software delivery.
• Experience integrating security controls into pipelines, including static code analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, secrets detection, artifact management, and security quality gates.
• Experience with AWS identity, access management, networking, logging, monitoring, encryption, secrets management, and security services, including practical application of least privilege and secure‑by‑default patterns.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies including Docker and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Experience managing application deployments, environment configuration, release automation, and production support activities.
• Experience implementing platform observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards using tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments, including disaster recovery and operational readiness activities.
• Experience with Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across distributed cloud environments.
• Familiarity with networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups, WAF, VPNs, and private connectivity patterns.
• Ability to create reusable platform patterns, pipeline templates, runbooks, automation scripts, environment standards, and technical documentation for engineering teams.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, environment configuration, performance, availability, access, and integration issues across complex technical environments.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile delivery, release management, change management, operational readiness, and continuous improvement practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers, architects, security teams, vendors, operations teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Federal stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills with a focus on automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, platform standards, operational issues, and risk trade‑offs clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience supporting federal or government IT programs involving cloud modernization, DevSecOps implementation, platform engineering, security compliance, shared services, or phased capability delivery.
• Experience supporting federal cloud environments, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800‑53, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR, or comparable services.
• Experience with Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, SSO, and enterprise identity platforms.
• Experience with artifact repositories, dependency management, container registries, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, signing, provenance, or secure release promotion practices.
• Experience with observability and reliability engineering practices, including service‑level indicators, service‑level objectives, incident response, runbooks, automated recovery, and production readiness reviews.
• Experience supporting multi‑vendor delivery within a common platform architecture, including alignment to shared DevSecOps standards, environment management, release readiness, security expectations, and technical governance forums.
• Cloud, DevSecOps, security, or agile certifications preferred, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, Terraform Associate, Security+, SAFe, Certified ScrumMaster, or similar credentials.
• Experience using generative AI and AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, code generation and modernization, automated testing, documentation, code review, troubleshooting, and release readiness, while applying appropriate security, privacy, governance, and human‑review controls.
• Experience prototyping or integrating generative AI capabilities using AWS Bedrock or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
• Understanding of privacy, security, data‑use restrictions, and responsible AI considerations in federal or regulated environments.
• Experience with AI evaluation, prompt and model versioning, guardrails, monitoring, human‑in‑the‑loop review, and mitigation of hallucination or unsafe output risks.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

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