DevSecOps Engineer with Security Clearance

About the Role

As a DevSecOps Engineer at Rancher Government Solutions, you will be a strategic technical force responsible for delivering expert-level implementation within a team of engineers and architects, driving mission success focused on the Rancher portfolio of products within the Federal Government. You will work directly with our cleared agency clients (TS//SCI with FSP), providing deep technical engineering support, architectural guidance, and hands-on keyboard engineering activity to ensure their complex container, CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Kubernetes initiatives are successful. This role is instrumental in translating customer needs into robust, secure, and scalable production and mission environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment, configuration, and integration of the Rancher product portfolio within complex government cloud and on-premise environments.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows to streamline application delivery and cluster management.
• Perform deep-level troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters, container networking, and security configurations.
• Collaborate with customer technical teams to ensure Rancher solutions are optimized for their specific mission requirements.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, providing guidance on best practices for container orchestration, security hardening, and DevSecOps workflows.
• Develop proof-of-concepts (PoCs) to demonstrate the value of Rancher and adjacent open-source technologies in solving specific agency challenges.
• Translate customer requirements into technical tasks and ensure timely delivery of engineering milestones.
• Leverage deep technical knowledge of virtualization infrastructure and security protocols to deploy, improve, and harden complex infrastructure against rigorous government standards.
• Develop reusable scripts and templates to build rapid development and test systems, ensuring consistent and repeatable environments for rapid prototyping.
• Assist in the resolution of performance issues; work with developers to troubleshoot application deployment failures to ensure mission readiness.
• Assist in providing guidance to fellow DevSecOps developers and administrators while interfacing effectively with multiple technical disciplines in a team environment.
• Contribute to the internal RGS engineering knowledge base by documenting unique customer configurations and solutions.
• Work closely with the Senior DevSecOps team to provide feedback from the field to influence product roadmaps.
• Help mentor Associate engineers and participate in peer code/architecture reviews.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of professional or military experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering, with a focus on containerized workloads and infrastructure automation within a highly secured environment.
• 1–2 years of experience in Kubernetes administration, container runtimes (Docker/containerd), and Linux internals.
• Requires TS//SCI Clearance w/ Full Scope Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, ArgoCD, or Jenkins) and configuration management/IaC (Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi).
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles, including container scanning, STIG compliance, and network policies.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to customer stakeholders and work effectively in a consultative environment.

Full Time Professional, Reston, VA, US