Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Reston, VA, US
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s Degree or 10+ years of professional or military experience.
- 10+ years of experience working as a field engineer, professional services consultant, or hands-on DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineer focused on infrastructure and container technology.
- Requires TS//SCI Clearance w/ Full Scope Polygraph.
Nice to have
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (5+ years), containers, and orchestration (Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker) for operations, development, and security.
- Extensive experience with DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD), and automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
- Excellent communication, consulting, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse, cleared end-users both in-person and virtually.
- Proven experience creating technical content (white papers, blog posts) or presenting at technical forums/events.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with a proactive, self-motivated, and results-oriented mindset focused on customer success.
Full description
Here is the standardized job description for the Sr. DevSecOps Engineer (Cleared) role:
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
Full Time
Professional
Reston, VA, US
Requisition ID: 1083
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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) addresses the unique security and operational needs of the U.S. Government and military by providing world-class solutions to support application modernization, hybrid cloud deployments, container security, and Kubernetes distribution management.
As a leading Enterprise Kubernetes Software Platform Suite, Rancher addresses the operations and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters at scale, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running and securing containerized workloads.
RGS supports the entire Rancher Kubernetes Platform Suite through U.S. Citizen, U.S. soil-based support representatives. A large majority of RGS employees maintain security clearances and currently support mission-critical programs across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Federal Civilian agencies.
POSITION SUMMARY
As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer at Rancher Government Solutions, you will be a strategic technical force responsible for delivering expert-level implementation within a team of engineers and architects, driving mission success focused on the Rancher portfolio of products within the Federal Government. You will work directly with our cleared agency clients (TS//SCI with FSP), providing subject matter expertise within the delivery team and acting as a liaison to executive-level customer leadership. This role leads by example through architectural guidance and hands-on-keyboard engineering activity to ensure the success of complex security requirements and compliance for container environments, CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure, and Kubernetes initiatives. This position is instrumental in translating customer needs into robust, secure, and scalable production and mission environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIESTechnical Leadership & Architecture
- Act as a trusted technical leader and hands-on keyboard engineer for government agency customers, focusing on building, deploying, and maintaining Rancher-based Kubernetes and container solutions.
- Provide expert-level DevOps technical engineering support, architecture design, and troubleshooting assistance across the entire Rancher product portfolio and complementary open-source technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, CI/CD tools).
- Develop technical solutions, proof-of-concepts, and reference architectures to help solve unique and complex customer problems, ensuring solutions meet stringent government security requirements.