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While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.\nThe Work\nAt ICF our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.\nJoin a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow, the team is focused on migrating legacy workloads, streamlining onboarding and support, expanding platform capabilities, and helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale.\nThe DevSecOps Lead provides technical leadership and day-to-day delivery oversight for platform engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), infrastructure provisioning, release execution, and core platform operations. This role owns the implementation of approved cloud architecture and security patterns, coordinates platform activities across engineers and administrators, and ensures infrastructure changes are repeatable, auditable, testable, and supportable. The DevSecOps Lead partners closely with the Cloud Data Architect, Security/RMF/ATO Lead, and Agile Delivery Manager to ensure platform delivery excellence, operational readiness, incident management, and successful release execution.\nJob Location: Remote\nIf you accept this position, you should note that company security monitoring, access controls, and client requirements may apply, including restrictions on foreign locations, foreign IP addresses, and personal VPN connections where contractually required.\nWhat You Will Do:\nLead platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations activities.\nOversee implementation and maintenance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platform environments.\nDirect CI/CD pipeline design, automation initiatives, release management activities, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) implementations.\nEnsure platform changes adhere to approved architecture, security, compliance, and operational standards.\nCoordinate engineering and operations teams to deliver repeatable, auditable, and testable infrastructure solutions.\nMonitor platform health, reliability, availability, performance, and operational metrics using SRE best practices.\nLead incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement efforts.\nCollaborate with security, architecture, and delivery leadership to achieve release readiness and deployment objectives.\nEstablish and maintain automated deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning processes.\nSupport modernization initiatives involving cloud-native platforms, OpenShift environments, containerized applications, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies.\nProvide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to DevSecOps engineers, platform engineers, and administrators.\nPrepare technical status reports, operational metrics, and briefings for client and internal stakeholders.\nWhat You Will Bring With You:\nU.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.\nCandidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., all work must be performed in the U.S. and must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.\nMinimum eight (8) years of experience supporting cloud platform operations, DevSecOps, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related technical disciplines. Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.\nDemonstrated experience leading DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.\nDeep experience leading the implementation and operation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions utilizing Terraform, including reusable modules, infrastructure standards, policy enforcement, environment provisioning, and automated platform deployment patterns.\nWhat We Would Like You To Bring With You:\nExtensive experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating Databricks environments, including workspace administration, Unity Catalog implementation, access management, platform policies, cluster governance, and automated provisioning.\nExperience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, and enterprise release automation frameworks.\nExperience implementing and governing cloud platform operations across Azure Government, Azure Commercial, AWS GovCloud, and hybrid-cloud architectures.\nExperience leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including observability, monitoring, incident response, operational readiness, service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), reliability engineering, and production support models.\nExperience overseeing release execution, deployment governance, rollback readiness, operational acceptance, and release evidence collection within regulated environments.\nExperience implementing platform security controls, secrets management, certificate management, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, and automated compliance validation.\nExperience supporting large-scale data, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud modernization initiatives leveraging Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, Power BI, and related technologies.\nExperience with identity and access management solutions including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, service principals, managed identities, federation, and privileged access controls.\nExperience leading platform operational processes including environment management, change control, incident management, problem management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and service continuity.\nExperience collaborating with Cloud Data Architects, Security Leads, RMF/ATO personnel, Agile Delivery Managers, SRE teams, QA teams, and Government stakeholders to ensure secure, auditable, and supportable platform operations.\nStrong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, RMF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FIPS, cybersecurity governance, and Federal compliance requirements.\nExperience establishing engineering standards, mentoring technical teams, driving technical decision-making, and implementing operational best practices across large engineering organizations.\nExperience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments requiring scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.\nExperience supporting Federal government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments.\nExperience working within Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and enterprise-scale delivery organizations.\nProfessional Skills:\nStrong leadership and team coordination skills.\nExcellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.\nEffective verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nAbility to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.\nStrong organizational skills with attention to detail and quality.\nCommitment to continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence.\nBot and Third-Party Applications\nPlease note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration. Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact  for assistance.\nWorking at ICF\nICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer.Together, our employees are empowered to share theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.\nWe will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nReasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals withsincerely heldreligious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To requestan accommodation,please email  and we will be happy toassist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extentrequiredto provide needed reasonable accommodations.\nRead more about workplace discrimination rights or our benefit offerings which are included in the Transparency in (Benefits) CoverageAct.\nCandidate AI Usage Policy\nAt ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate orassistwith responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is notpermitted. This policy is in place tomaintainthe integrity and authenticity of the interview process.\nHowever, we understand that some candidates may require accommodationthat involves the use of AI. Ifsuch anaccommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at . 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