DevSecOps Engineer - Polygraph Clearance Required

Overview

Join our cutting‑edge generative AI (GenAI) platform, LIGER™, created by its technology studio, LMIForge. LIGER™ harnesses the power of advanced technology, data analytics, and the latest in machine learning and natural language processing to provide secure, private, and trustworthy GenAI solutions for government.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial‑grade platforms and mission‑ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission‑ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement using an agile methodology
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
• Embrace the Dev Sec Ops  culture with a commitment to automate what can be automated
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Practice sustainable incident response and actively participate in retrospectives

• Minimum of a polygraph level security clearance required
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 5+ years’ experience as a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience programming in Python. Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks
• Systematic problem‑solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
• Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
• Demonstrated experience building continuous, automated build and deploy pipelines
• Demonstrated experience in conditional procedure of build and deploy pipeline based on security scans of source and artifact
• Capable of working with software development team and platform infrastructure team to provide meaningful guidance to both for code development and deployment
• In‑depth knowledge of version control of release artifacts to facilitate upgrade rollout and rollback
• Strong understanding of containerization of web applications
• Understanding and familiarity with container orchestration engines such as K8s (EKS, AKS, GKE, Kops, Open Shift)
• Experience with Git Lab CI/CD
• Experience with bash shell scripting

• Agile, Lean, Dev Ops, Cloud, Security+ or other professional certification
• Familiarity with Intelligence Community IT standards and federal security standards strongly desired
• Knowledge of the Army software development process and its technologies
• Hands‑on experience using agile software development methodologies
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well on a cross‑functional agile team
• Experience working in a consultant/client environment

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