Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Shawnee Mission

Description Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Dev Sec Ops  Engineer in Lenexa, KS.

Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to help advance Dev Ops capabilities across cloud engineering, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), automation, and AI-enabled operations. This is a senior individual contributor role that will serve as a technical escalation point while building scalable, secure, and repeatable solutions across production and non-production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

* Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines supporting application, infrastructure, database, and configuration deployments
* Build Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Bicep, Power Shell, Python, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, or similar technologies
* Engineer scalable, secure cloud solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and backup/recovery
* Develop reusable platform engineering templates, self-service workflows, deployment patterns, and shared tooling
* Apply SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and toil reduction
* Improve observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry
* Automate environment provisioning, patching, configuration, release readiness, service accounts, and related operational processes
* Embed security and compliance into pipelines through secrets management, IAM, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement
* Support Docker, Kubernetes, containerization, orchestration, artifact management, and image scanning
* Leverage AI-enabled engineering/operations tools to improve troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and developer productivity
* Partner across development, infrastructure, database, security, and operations teams
* Mentor engineers and lead troubleshooting of complex deployment, infrastructure, performance, and reliability issues Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
* 5-7 years of progressive experience in Dev Ops, cloud engineering, platform engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure automation, software delivery, or related roles
* Strong knowledge of modern Dev Ops, Agile delivery, release management, infrastructure automation, and operational support
* Hands-on experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or similar tools
* Experience scripting and automating with Power Shell, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML, and/or JSON
* Strong cloud experience, preferably Microsoft Azure, across compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and cost optimization
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar
* Understanding of platform engineering, reusable templates, self-service workflows, internal developer platforms, and developer experience
* Knowledge of SRE practices, including observability, incident response, root cause analysis, reliability targets, capacity planning, and toil reduction
* Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Splunk, or Logic Monitor
* Working knowledge of containers, orchestration, cloud-native applications, and artifact management
* Understanding of Dev Sec Ops , including secrets management, IAM, vulnerability scanning, secure pipelines, and compliance automation
* Experience supporting enterprise/business-critical applications and cloud or hybrid environments
* Ability to mentor engineers, lead technical improvements, and influence engineering standards without direct people management
* Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
* Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, SRE, Agile, or Dev Ops certifications are a plus

Job Type Contract Compensation
45 - $50