Senior DevOps Engineer — Secure Cloud & CI/CD Lead (TS/SCI)

MetaPhase Consulting LLC; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MetaPhase Consulting is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead platform engineering in a secure Federal mission environment, combining cloud engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, and cybersecurity to enable reliable delivery of critical capabilities.

The role requires 10+ years of relevant experience, TS/SCI clearance, and hands-on leadership across CI/CD, IaC, observability, and incident response in hybrid cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of relevant DevOps/platform engineering experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with eligibility for SCI access; U.S. Citizenship required.
• Advanced proficiency with CI/CD platforms, Git-based workflows, infrastructure as code, containers, and Kubernetes or comparable orchestration technologies.
• Hands-on experience developing secure cloud and hybrid platforms using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Docker, and automated configuration management.
• Experience integrating SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets management, identity controls, and infrastructure security checks into software-delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead scalable CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, and rollback across multiple environments.
• Implement secure infrastructure as code and platform automation for resilient cloud and hybrid environments using repeatable, version-controlled patterns.
• Partner with software engineering, SRE, and security teams to embed Zero Trust, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and policy checks into delivery workflows.
• Build and improve self-service developer platforms, containerized runtime environments, and orchestration frameworks that simplify secure software delivery.
• Establish observability through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and service level objectives that support actionable operational decisions.
• Lead incident-response improvements through runbooks, root-cause analysis, automation, and follow-through on corrective actions.
• Mentor engineering teams, define platform standards, and provide hands-on technical leadership for secure, reliable, and highly observable production systems.

Skills

CI/CD platforms

Git-based workflows

Infrastructure as code

Containers

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Policy as code tooling

Job description

MetaPhase Consulting is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead platform engineering in a secure Federal mission environment, combining cloud engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, and cybersecurity to enable reliable delivery of critical capabilities.

The role requires 10+ years of relevant experience, TS/SCI clearance, and hands-on leadership across CI/CD, IaC, observability, and incident response in hybrid cloud environments.