DevSecOps Lead

GovCIO is seeking an IA Engineer (DSO) to lead a team of data professionals in support of Veterans Affairs ensuring the full lifecycl e of the Veteran experience is properly ingested, driving program and process improvements. This position will be fully remote within the United States position.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsible for publishing, training, and maintaining DevOps and Infrastructure policies
• Implement predefined security and standards processes/tools/configurations
• Implement Data Governance aligned with Strategic guidance
• Lead Infrastructure as Code Initiatives
• Support DSO activities as tasked with priority to those DSO activities and Lead DSO activities with lower priority for delivery
• Strategize on the publicationMonitoringGuidance, aligned with Operations Management Lead and Lead Data Engineer, for Monitoring and Alerting
• Facilitate the Implementation and management of monitoring solutions to proactively identify potential issues and address them before they impact production.
• Oversee the Configuration and maintenance of alerting mechanisms to notify relevant teams about critical system events.
• Participate in the Implementation and maintenance of performance monitoring tools to track system performance, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize system performance and resource utilization.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation to enhance the efficiency of production support and operational activities.
• Stay current with industry's best practices and emerging technologies relevant to operations management.
• Identify and implement fully automated deployment workflows for data pipelines, APIs, and container-based workloads.

Comply/Facilitate compliance with published Security standards in the ATO Boundary:

• Ensure that the production environment complies with relevant regulatory requirements and security standards.
• Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities and implement security best practices.
• Automate compliance checks, configuration audits and vulnerability reporting.

Qualifications

The DSO Engineer performs work requiring in-depth knowledge and understanding of a particular field or technical discipline.
The DSO Engineer may have experience:
- Conducting independent, complex analysis, concept formulation, and application of new methods.
- Demonstrated ability to perform as a recognized expert in specifications and/or utilization in given domain, lead and contributes in the analysis, specification, design, development and implementation/integration of requirements

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific /technical discipline 12 years (or commensurate experience)
• 4 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
• Experience with CICD process
• Experience with Terraform Cloud formation, AWS, Azure Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, Spark, GitHub

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Active VA public Trust
• Familiarity with Agile concepts and best practices a plus.
• Familiarity with CloudStrike, Dynatrace, PowerBI.
• Previous Department of Veterans Affairs experience preferred.

Posted Salary Range

USD $175,000.00 - USD $185,000.00 /Yr.