Remote DevSecOps & Cloud Automation Engineer

LMI Government Consulting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting seeks an experienced DevSecOps & Cloud Automation Engineer to build, secure, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and AWS GovCloud infrastructure for the ATIS program.

This hands-on, senior individual contributor role requires delivering secure automation, collaborating across application, cloud, architecture, and cybersecurity teams, and mentoring fellow engineers while staying hands-on.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on DevSecOps, cloud, platform, systems, or infrastructure automation experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and Linux administration in production environments.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible.
• Working knowledge of containers, cloud networking, IAM, and secure infrastructure design.
• Experience implementing cybersecurity guardrails, vulnerability remediation, and automated security validation in secure or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and standardize GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable jobs, parent/child pipelines, runners, triggers, and integrated security testing.
• Build and maintain AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and other automation, emphasizing reusable, resilient, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Create and maintain Ansible Playbooks for Windows and Linux installation, patching, hardening, configuration, and operational support.
• Support AWS services and containerized workloads, including EC2, RDS, ECR/EKS, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, and approved/hardened container images such as Iron Bank.
• Automate security controls, vulnerability remediation, and validation; support DoD security tooling such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, CloudWatch agents, and related capabilities.
• Troubleshoot and independently resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve existing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities while reducing technical debt and redundant solutions.
• Collaborate across application, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture teams to develop and implement solutions that support changing ATIS priorities.
• Create and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and reusable patterns that enable team self-sufficiency and knowledge transfer.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers while remaining directly engaged in hands-on engineering and implementation.

Skills

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Linux administration

Ansible

Containers

Cloud networking

IAM

Secure infrastructure design

Cybersecurity guardrails

Vulnerability remediation

Automated security validation

DoD Secret clearance

DoDI 8140 compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

ECR

GitOps

ACAS

Elastic Agent

CloudWatch

Job description

LMI Government Consulting seeks an experienced DevSecOps & Cloud Automation Engineer to build, secure, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and AWS GovCloud infrastructure for the ATIS program.

This hands-on, senior individual contributor role requires delivering secure automation, collaborating across application, cloud, architecture, and cybersecurity teams, and mentoring fellow engineers while staying hands-on.