Senior DevSecOps Automation Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior DevSecOps Automation Solution Architect

Job Location: Remote

Eligibility/Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background

screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and

fingerprinting.

This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security

clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the

U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows:

U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for

longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet

certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S.

(including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in

the last 3 years.

We are seeking a Senior DevSecOps Automation Solution Architect to

support a large-scale, multi-year Mainframe Modernization initiative for

a major federal customer. In this customer-facing role, you will partner

directly with the client’s technical and business stakeholders to design

and implement modern engineering, automation, and delivery practices

that accelerate their transformation from legacy mainframe systems to

secure, cloud-native platforms. As a key member of the modernization

program’s architecture team, reporting to the Chief Architect, you will

help shape the technical roadmap, lead solution development, and guide

engineering teams through modern DevSecOps approaches that ensure

reliability, security, and scalability throughout the transformation

journey. Your work will directly support mission-critical objectives and

enable the customer to achieve long-term operational modernization

outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will collaborate closely with federal customer

stakeholders to:

- Design and communicate DevSecOps automation strategies that align

legacy-to-cloud modernization goals and customer mission needs.

- Build compelling technical briefings, modernization roadmaps, and

reusable solution artifacts tailored for customer consumption.

- LProvide guidance to engineering teams and customer personnel on

CI/CD pipeline modernization, security integration, test automation,

and cloud deployment approaches.

- Evaluate legacy mainframe workflows and help plan prototype

implementations demonstrating modernization feasibility and value.

- Continuously assess modernization progress and support iterative

improvements across development, deployment, security, and

monitoring workflows.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master’s degree preferred

- 10+ years software development experience, including 5+ years in

DevSecOps CI/CD and 3+ years developing cloud-native software

solutions (AWS Preferred).

- Certifications in software development, DevSecOps, or cloud-native

architecture.

- Expertise in DevSecOps automation, Agile/Lean delivery, and

enterprise-grade CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins,

Terraform, Ansible, Sonatype, New Relic, Dynatrace, etc.).

- Hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud-native

architectures, containerized microservices, API-driven interfaces,

and event-based systems. Strong background in application

containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

- Proficiency in modern development frameworks and languages (Java,

.NET, Node.js, Spring, Angular, React, JSON, etc.).

- Experience working with large datasets, data migration strategies,

and modernization-aligned analytics workflows.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience helping federal customers adopt cloud-native

architectures and services (AWS, Azure, container-based

microservices, REST APIs).

- Demonstrated ability to onboard teams into modern DevSecOps

pipelines and accelerate adoption of automation practices.

- Experience scaling high-performance engineering solutions for

structured and unstructured data.

- Strong communication skills and confidence engaging directly with

customer stakeholders at all levels.

Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer

(EOE) who will provide equal employment opportunity to employees and

applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion,

color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry,

sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status,

family structure, genetic information, or mental or physical disability.