DevOps Engineer - Secret (Remote)

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in automating, optimizing, and securing the delivery pipeline for enterprise-grade, mission-critical systems supporting our nation’s defense and security objectives. You will leverage your expertise in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and cloud-native technologies to drive operational efficiency and resilience across complex environments. Your hands-on approach to integrating DevSecOps best practices and innovative toolsets will ensure rapid, reliable deployments and robust system security, contributing directly to the transformation and modernization of essential government platforms.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the development of new software solutions and transition of existing solutions from monolithic structures to micro-service structure operating within hardened containers.
• Work with application development teams to refactor or create solutions that leverage the DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline and tools.
• Instruct and guide teams through their solution development.
• Deploy and sustain microservices factory utilizing COTS and open-source solutions.
• Drive strategy and oversee architecture of continuous integration and deployment, and monitoring across technologies.
• Lead DevOps methodologies and implement Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Drive automated software development lifecycle toolchain.
• Handle deployments in both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Serve as the engineer of complex technology implementations in a product-centric environment.
• Use DevOps services with infrastructure as a service providers (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, RackSpace/OpenStack).
• Use scripting or basic programming skills to solve problems.
• Work with configuration management tools (e.g., TFS, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, LVM).
• Utilize containerization technologies (e.g., LXC, Docker, Rocket, OpenShift).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Minimum of 5+ years Agile experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years relevant experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities listed.
• Active IT-II security clearance or current National Agency Check with Local Agency Check and Credit Check (NACLC) at time of proposal submission.
• 8570 certifications (Security+).
• CSP Certifications (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure).
• Preferred SAFe Agile Certification or industry-recognized equivalent certification.
• Demonstrated experience with defining SAFe Agile methodology for large-scale clients.

About Xcelerate Solutions

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in McLean, VA, Xcelerate Solutions is one of America's fastest-growing companies. Xcelerate’s culture is defined by our diversified workforce of dynamic and versatile professionals, supported with growth and development opportunities that contribute to individual and company growth. This strong commitment to our employees has been recognized by our inclusion on the Washington Business Journal’s “50 Best Places to Work” list as well as being a “Great Place to Work” certified company with a 4.6-star and a 99% CEO approval Glassdoor rating.

Location: McLean, VA (Remote)
Clearance: Active Secret