Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

At ICF our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.

Join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow, the team is focused on migrating legacy workloads, streamlining onboarding and support, expanding platform capabilities, and helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale.

The Dev Sec Ops  Lead provides technical leadership and day-to-day delivery oversight for platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops , Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), infrastructure provisioning, release execution, and core platform operations. This role owns the implementation of approved cloud architecture and security patterns, coordinates platform activities across engineers and administrators, and ensures infrastructure changes are repeatable, auditable, testable, and supportable. The Dev Sec Ops  Lead partners closely with the Cloud Data Architect, Security/RMF/ATO Lead, and Agile Delivery Manager to ensure platform delivery excellence, operational readiness, incident management, and successful release execution.

Remote

If you accept this position, you should note that company security monitoring, access controls, and client requirements may apply, including restrictions on foreign locations, foreign IP addresses, and personal VPN connections where contractually required.

• Lead platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops , SRE, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations activities.
• Oversee implementation and maintenance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platform environments.
• Direct CI/CD pipeline design, automation initiatives, release management activities, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) implementations.
• Ensure platform changes adhere to approved architecture, security, compliance, and operational standards.
• Coordinate engineering and operations teams to deliver repeatable, auditable, and testable infrastructure solutions.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, performance, and operational metrics using SRE best practices.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with security, architecture, and delivery leadership to achieve release readiness and deployment objectives.
• Establish and maintain automated deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning processes.
• Support modernization initiatives involving cloud-native platforms, Open Shift environments, containerized applications, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to Dev Sec Ops  engineers, platform engineers, and administrators.
• Prepare technical status reports, operational metrics, and briefings for client and internal stakeholders.

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., all work must be performed in the U.S. and must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience supporting cloud platform operations, Dev Sec Ops , platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related technical disciplines. Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading Dev Sec Ops , platform engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
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