Remote DevSecOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & Security

Initiate Government Solutions; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Initiate Government Solutions, a remote-first IT services provider, seeks a DevOps Engineer to support federal partners nationwide. The role emphasizes cloud-native platform engineering, automation, and secure CI/CD practices across Kubernetes environments.

Responsibilities include architecting scalable pipelines, enabling low-code platforms, and ensuring regulatory compliance while collaborating with product and security teams in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud and/or DevOps at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (design, implementation, troubleshooting, scaling) in production environments.
• Understanding of L4, L5, and L7 networking with AWS Resources and Cilium, Istio, or equivalent operators.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and scripting languages.
• Experience leading engineering teams and setting program-level standards.
• Experience defining and maintaining a monitoring solution for providing insight to platform issues.
• US Citizenship required due to clearance requirement.

Responsibilities

• Create automated processes for deploying containerized applications and exposing API endpoints for data consumers.
• Shape and communicate architectural blueprint focusing on scalability, security, automation, and developer experience in cloud-native environments.
• Collaborate with product owners, security teams, and stakeholders to align features with business needs and roadmaps, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Define and advocate engineering best practices across the program, leveraging DevSecOps and Kubernetes expertise.
• Provide PaaS solutions including low-code/no-code platforms and enterprise-grade API tooling to accelerate delivery.
• Automate full software development lifecycle, boosting efficiency and reliability.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment; monitor platform health.
• Continuously refine the platform to meet the mission with innovative solutions.
• Ensure compliance, audit-readiness, and proper documentation.

Skills

Cloud experience

Leadership

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible/Puppet/Chef

ArgoCD

Job description

Initiate Government Solutions, a remote-first IT services provider, seeks a DevOps Engineer to support federal partners nationwide. The role emphasizes cloud-native platform engineering, automation, and secure CI/CD practices across Kubernetes environments.

Responsibilities include architecting scalable pipelines, enabling low-code platforms, and ensuring regulatory compliance while collaborating with product and security teams in a remote setting.