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Lead the secure delivery and reliability engineering of a mission-critical VA cloud platform! As the DevSecOps & SRE Technical Director, you will support CI/CD pipeline architecture, platform reliability engineering, and automated delivery practices supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Position Description: The DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Technical Director provides senior technical leadership for all DevSecOps practices, SRE services, and automated delivery pipelines across the VA healthcare environment while ensuring CI/CD pipelines are secure, automated, and compliant.
Minimum/General Experience: 8 years of experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, and technical leadership
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related field
Essential Skills/Qualifications:- Expert experience providing technical leadership for DevSecOps and platform engineering activities supporting complex enterprise systems in a SAFe environment
- Expert experience in cloud-native architectures, containerized environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and automated infrastructure management
- Expert experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise CI/CD pipeline architectures (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) in a Kubernetes/Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environment
- Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Expert ability to integrate Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), container scanning, and IaC scanning into delivery pipelines
- Excellent experience enforcing secure software supply chain practices and zero-trust principles
- Excellent experience enforcing IaC governance, automated testing, and policy-as-code across all environment types
- Excellent experience with SRE practices (e.g., Service Level Indicators, objectives, agreements, error budget management, capacity planning, toil reduction via automation)
- Excellent knowledge of advanced deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rolling deployments) with automated rollback in Kubernetes environments
- Excellent understanding of observability practices (e.g., logging, metrics, distributed tracing and integration with enterprise monitoring platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk))
- Above average experience supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, continuous authorization, and audit activities in a Federal Risk management Framework (RMF) environment
- Above average knowledge of PI Planning, DevSecOps maturity models, and DevOps metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR)
- Working knowledge of VA OI&T security policies, FISMA compliance requirements, and NIST 800-53 control implementation in DevSecOps contexts
- Experience supporting Federal Government programs and large-scale mission-critical applications operating in cloud or hybrid environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.
- Assignment Location - Remote
- Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
- Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
- Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.
Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years
Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:
- Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
- OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
- DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
- National Agency Check (NAC) records
- FBI name check
- FBI fingerprint check
- Credit report check
- Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
- Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
- Law enforcement check
- Court records check
- Education check - Attendance and Degrees
Tasks/Activities include, but are not limited to:- Maintains regular communication with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and Government technical leadership regarding platform reliability, deployment activities, and operational improvements
- Provides senior technical oversight for all DevSecOps and SRE activities ensuring platform delivery velocity, security posture, and operational resilience meet or exceed contractual performance objectives
- Governs CI/CD pipeline architecture across all supported applications
- Ensures 100% of pipelines integrate automated security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA/container scanning) and enforce environment segregation
- Leads SRE practices including 24/7 on-call coverage governance, Golden Signal monitoring, Service Level Indicators/Objectives (SLI/SLO) definition, and incident response for all assigned applications
- Ensures 100% of infrastructure components are provisioned and managed through approved IaC tooling
- Enforces code reviews and approval cycle time of no more than 3 business days
- Oversees implementation of advanced deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rolling) with automated rollback mechanisms to minimize deployment risk to production services
- Ensures all DevSecOps and SRE practices comply with VA security, privacy, and RMF requirements
- Supports ATO and continuous authorization activities
- Collaborates with leadership to align platform delivery, reliability, and observability strategies
- Continuously evaluates and implements improvements to automation, security integration, and deployment efficiency
- Improves DevSecOps metrics across the program
Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $104,528 - $135,714 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.
Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
- Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
- Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
- Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.
