Senior Cloud DevSecOps Engineer (Kubernetes, IAM, CI/CD)

AMERICAN SYSTEMS; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator / DevSecOps Security Engineer in Alexandria, VA. The role combines senior system administration, site reliability engineering, cloud operations, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity engineering for an IL5 CUI system.

You will manage DDMP cloud environments, harden CI/CD pipelines with automated security checks, and lead RMF/ATO evidence collection while coordinating with security stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS Degree in a relevant field.
• 11+ years in systems administration, cloud operations, DevSecOps, or similar.
• 3+ years operating cloud-hosted, containerized, or hybrid enterprise apps in production.
• Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes administration including cluster/workload operations.
• Experience supporting a DoD IL5 environment and RMF artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Administer and sustain DDMP cloud environments across Development, Test, Training, and Production.
• Operate the Kubernetes environment supporting DDMP containerized services with deployment, monitoring, patching, and incident response.
• Maintain cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and DNS per security baselines.
• Support transition to elastic, cloud-native platform with multi-AZ resilience.
• Maintain backup, recovery, HA, DR, and restore validation procedures.

Skills

Linux administration

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

RMF/ATO

Zero-trust access

PostgreSQL

Education

BS Degree

Tools

GitLab

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

eMASS

Job description

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator / DevSecOps Security Engineer in Alexandria, VA. The role combines senior system administration, site reliability engineering, cloud operations, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity engineering for an IL5 CUI system.

You will manage DDMP cloud environments, harden CI/CD pipelines with automated security checks, and lead RMF/ATO evidence collection while coordinating with security stakeholders.