Platform Engineer​/DevSecOps Engineer

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Non-SCA, Full-time McLean, VA

10 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

FM Talent Source is an enterprise that provides business and workforce solutions to help organizations nationwide overcome business challenges. Our clients include federal, state and local government agencies, Fortune 500 Companies, and non-profit organizations. Founded in 2004, we have a strong history of providing recruitment strategies and utilizing effective project and quality management methodologies to ensure our clients success.

We are seeking one Platform Engineer/Dev Sec Ops  Engineer for a full-time contract opportunity with FM Talent Source for one of our valued clients.

We are seeking a strong Platform Engineer / Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to support the Grant Solutions platform modernization effort by building and improving the cloud engineering, automation, deployment, security, and operational capabilities needed to deliver modern software s role will help establish and operate the AWS-based platform patterns, shared Dev Sec Ops  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 / Dev Sec Ops  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 Dev Sec Ops  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 Grant Solutions platform modernization program delivered through iterative agile execution.
• Implement and maintain modern Dev Sec Ops  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 Cloud Formation, 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…