DevSecOps Project Lead (Sr DevSecOps Engineer)

DEFCON AI is seeking a senior, hands-on DevSecOps lead to support an AI-enabled program in a government cloud environment. The role owns secure cloud platform architecture and implementation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, authorization evidence, and leadership of a small engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with security analysis, software composition analysis, container and infrastructure-as-code scanning, SBOM generation, and gated production promotion
• Establish development, test, and production environments in AWS GovCloud at IL-5 using portable infrastructure-as-code templates
• Design container, network, identity, hardened-image, observability, rollback, and zero-downtime deployment approaches
• Produce continuous authorization evidence and security artifacts, and work with customer security and accreditation staff
• Lead a small group of platform, cloud, cyber, and DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on

Requirements:

• You have 8+ years of DevOps/DevSecOps experience and have owned a production pipeline end to end at scale
• You have federal or defense cloud experience at IL-4/IL-5 or in an equivalent authorized environment
• You are experienced with containers, Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration, Terraform/CloudFormation or similar IaC, CI/CD tooling, and production observability
• You have supported an ATO, cATO, or equivalent authorization and can build security evidence into delivery workflows
• You are a U.S. citizen with an active U.S. Secret clearance
• AWS GovCloud is strongly preferred