{"id":1504426,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ironarch-technology-senior-devsecops-engineer","title":"Senior DevSecOps Engineer","company":{"id":1966478,"name":"IronArch Technology","domain":"ironarchtechnology.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ironarchtechnology","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Paylocity","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":{"label":"EST","utc_offset_min":-5,"utc_offset_max":-5},"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":138000,"max":151000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":151000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-26T15:14:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T14:23:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":35,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":35},"description":"Description\nWho We Are\nKnown for being a Best Place to Work and a People First company, IronArch Technology is an award-winning Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in providing innovative solutions and world class services to Federal Government clients.\nOur employees have voted us as a 'Best Place to Work' 9 times and we are an INC 5000 recipient for being one of the fastest growing businesses in the United States.\nOur Values: Deliver Outcomes with Speed | Own the Work and the Results | Respect People. Speak Directly. | Stay Curious. Enjoy the Journey.\nWhat You’ll Do\nIronArch Technology is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) RISE program. This is a senior individual contributor role on an event-driven platform that multiple engineering teams and partner programs build on. The program's Amazon MSK (Kafka) event bus is becoming the shared integration backbone for a growing set of producers and consumers, and you will join the DevOps engineers who make adopting it smooth and safe, bringing the security depth of that work to the team.\nYou will coordinate with the program's engineering teams and with partner teams adopting the platform and guide them through integration end to end: schema design and review, producer and consumer patterns, secure delivery pipelines, and production readiness.\nYou will also keep the platform itself healthy: secure, automated infrastructure, strong observability, and delivery practices that let teams ship quickly, reliably, and safely.\nWork Location: Remote (U.S.-based). Occasional travel may be required for program meetings, planning sessions, or production support activities.\nCore Hours: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM EST\nResponsibilities\nEvent Bus Integration\nGuide teams integrating with the program's Amazon MSK (Kafka) event bus, from first design conversation through production cutover.\nContribute to schema design, review, and governance for new producers and consumers, helping teams and vendors reach agreement.\nHelp define and document integration patterns, onboarding guides, and production-readiness criteria so each new integration is faster and safer than the last.\nCoordinate cross-team and cross-program integration work, including consumers outside the immediate program that are adopting the event bus.\nDevSecOps & Secure Delivery\nBuild and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) that embed security scanning, testing, and compliance checks into every release.\nChampion DevSecOps practices across teams: secrets management, dependency and container scanning, least-privilege access, and auditable deployments.\nEnsure delivery practices align with VA security and compliance requirements.\nCloud Infrastructure & Automation\nOperate and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting the event bus and related services, managed as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).\nShare responsibility for MSK cluster operations: capacity planning, topic and partition strategy, scaling, upgrades, and cost efficiency.\nAutomate deployment, configuration management, and release processes.\nReliability & Observability\nPartner with the program's observability effort to ensure streaming infrastructure and integrations are well instrumented: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing.\nSupport production operations for the event bus, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.\nHelp teams design consumers and producers for resiliency, replayability, and graceful failure.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nPartner with product owners, engineering leads, and VA stakeholders to sequence and deliver integration work.\nOperate effectively in a complex multi-vendor Federal program, building trust across organizational boundaries.\nMentor engineers on event-driven architecture and DevSecOps practices.\nRequirements\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).\n8+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.\nHands-on production experience with Amazon MSK and/or Apache Kafka: cluster operations, topic and partition design, schema management, and producer/consumer development or tuning. This is required.\nExperience designing or supporting event-driven architectures at enterprise scale.\nDemonstrated success guiding technical work that spans multiple teams: moving designs to agreement, unblocking integrations, and holding a quality bar.\nStrong experience with AWS cloud services; GovCloud experience preferred.\nHands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.\nExperience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications.\nExperience supporting high-availability, mission-critical production environments.\nStrong understanding of DevSecOps principles and secure software delivery.\nExperience working within Agile software development environments.\nTechnical Skills\nAmazon MSK / Apache Kafka (required), including the surrounding ecosystem (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, or equivalents)\nEvent-driven architecture and streaming patterns\nAWS (GovCloud preferred)\nTerraform\nCI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions preferred; GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent)\nDocker and containerization technologies\nKubernetes or container orchestration platforms (preferred)\nLinux administration\nPerformance monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or similar)\nGit source control\nScripting (Python, Bash, or similar)\nAI Capabilities\nExperience leveraging AI-assisted development and operational tools to improve infrastructure automation, monitoring, deployment efficiency, and operational insights.\nFamiliarity with AI-driven observability, incident management, and cloud optimization solutions while ensuring compliance with Federal security requirements.\nPreferred Experience\nExperience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs or other Federal agencies.\nExperience running Kafka or MSK as a shared platform consumed by multiple independent teams.\nExperience with schema governance and data contracts in event-driven systems.\nExperience implementing DevSecOps practices within Federal environments, including ATO and RMF processes.\nExperience with VA platform environments such as LHDI or GitHub Enterprise Cloud.\nExperience collaborating within complex multi-vendor Federal programs.\nAWS Professional, DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar cloud certifications are highly desirable. \nExperience navigating a system from a FISMA Moderate to a FISMA High baseline, including the control uplift and re-authorization work that comes with it.\nClearance Requirements\nU.S. Citizenship is required.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination.\nCandidates with an active Public Trust or recently completed Federal background investigation are strongly preferred to support accelerated onboarding.\nIdeal Candidate Profile\nThe ideal candidate is a senior engineer who is happiest at the seam between teams. You have run Kafka in production, you know what good schema discipline looks like, and you can help walk a team from \"we want to publish events\" to a healthy production integration. You collaborate well with the DevSecOps engineers working alongside you, you communicate clearly with engineers and stakeholders alike, you write things down, and you raise the platform's quality bar with every integration you support.\nYou thrive in Agile, multi-vendor environments and care about security as a property of the delivery process, not a gate at the end.\nImpact / Success\nIn your first year, you will have made a meaningful impact when:\nNew producer and consumer teams onboard to the event bus through a clear, repeatable integration path that you helped build and continuously improve.\nSchema design and governance are established practices, with cross-team agreements reached quickly and documented durably.\nDelivery pipelines for the platform and its integrations are secure, automated, and auditable.\nThe event bus runs reliably as adoption grows, with observability and incident practices that catch problems before consumers do.\nYou are a trusted integration advisor across the program and its partner teams.\n(#LI-remote)\nWhy IronArch Technology?\nAwarded Best Place to Work 9 times!\nCompetitive compensation and market-leading bonus opportunities\nMedical, dental and vision benefits where a significant portion of the premium is subsidized by IronArch. For qualifying high deductible health plans, IronArch also contributes towards a Health Reimbursement Account to cover eligible medical expenses\nCompany-provided healthcare concierge assistance to help explain your coverage in plain language; help you find, choose, and schedule quality care; and address billing, benefit, or claims concerns, potentially saving hours of your time\n401(k) retirement plan where the company contributes dollar for dollar up to 3 percent, and 50 cents on the dollar for the 4th and 5th percent with immediate entry and immediate vesting\n20 days of PTO accumulated per calendar year\n11paid holidays\nBereavement, jury duty, parental (maternity/paternity/adoption), and military leaves\nSabbatical programs\nCompany-paid short- and long-term disability\nCompany-paid life insurance\nVoluntary life, accidental and indemnity income replacement benefits\nProfessional development reimbursement\nHealth club reimbursement\nMatching donation program and annual philanthropic activities \nPet insurance\nAnd more!\nApply today to learn why IronArch Technology has been recognized as “Best Place to Work” for 9 years!\nIronArch Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nIn alignment with applicable state and local pay transparency laws, IronArch includes a salary range in our job descriptions to support equity and transparency in our hiring process. 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