OverviewDecisionPoint seeks a Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead to maintain secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery processes supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.
This position will maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automated checks, application environment configurations, artifact promotion, and deployment and rollback automation. The lead will apply infrastructure as code and automated testing to improve consistency across development, testing, and production environments.
The Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead will collaborate with software developers, architects, testers, cybersecurity personnel, release management staff, and operations teams to resolve delivery issues and support controlled releases. This is a hands-on technical lead role aligned with the Journeyman labor category.
This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead will:
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting application builds, automated checks, testing, packaging, and deployment.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code definitions and application environment configurations.
- Promote consistent, reproducible configurations across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Integrate automated functional, integration, regression, and approved security checks into delivery pipelines.
- Configure pipeline quality gates and retain execution results supporting release decisions.
- Maintain artifact repositories, versioning, dependencies, and promotion controls.
- Ensure promoted artifacts remain traceable to source revisions, build records, test results, and approvals.
- Develop and maintain deployment scripts, environment validation checks, and rollback automation.
- Coordinate release execution with development, testing, cybersecurity, configuration management, and operations personnel.
- Validate application health and expected behavior following deployment or rollback.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, build errors, configuration inconsistencies, artifact issues, and deployment problems.
- Implement approved access controls, service accounts, secrets handling, and logging for delivery tools and environments.
- Coordinate remediation of issues identified by automated checks and security reviews.
- Maintain version-controlled pipeline definitions, infrastructure code, scripts, and configuration records.
- Document build procedures, environment dependencies, deployment instructions, rollback steps, and troubleshooting guidance.
- Provide technical coordination for DevSecOps work, including dependencies, impediments, and delivery priorities.
- Support release-readiness reviews, operational handoffs, and knowledge transfer.
- Improve delivery reliability and efficiency using pipeline metrics, incident findings, and lessons learned.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:
- Active Secret clearance or higher.
- Minimum of six years of relevant professional experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
- Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Experience implementing or integrating automated testing.
- Experience configuring and supporting secure application environments.
- Experience with artifact management and controlled artifact promotion.
- Experience developing or maintaining deployment and rollback automation.
- Ability to maintain automated checks and application environment configurations.
- Relevant cloud or DevOps certification.
Preferred Qualifications
The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:
- Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software delivery environments.
- Experience with approved CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or comparable infrastructure and configuration automation tools.
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native application deployment.
- Experience integrating code analysis, dependency scanning, secrets detection, or container security checks into pipelines.
- Experience with artifact repositories, package registries, and software supply-chain traceability.
- Familiarity with deployment strategies that support controlled promotion, recovery, and reduced service disruption.
- Experience coordinating release activities across multiple development teams.
- Strong scripting, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
