Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Contingent)

About the role

Join Our Innovative Team at Mile 2! Are you into solving tough problems and building cool tech? Do you thrive in a team where your ideas are heard and your creativity is encouraged? If you're nodding along, Mile 2 might be the place for you. We're all about creating advanced solutions that really make a difference for our government partners. Our team uses the latest technologies to make a tangible impact, creating seamless integrations between human expertise and machine capabilities to tackle complex challenges.

Our core values guide everything we do: Supported Autonomy — we trust you to take initiative and make decisions, but we've always got your back. Humble Expertise — we respect everyone's knowledge and skills, creating an environment where we can all learn and get better together. Success is a Team Effort — we believe that we can only achieve great things when we work as a team. Tangible Results — we're motivated by the desire to create real, measurable impacts through our work. When you join us, you'll work on meaningful projects that challenge you and help you grow. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment, competitive benefits, and plenty of opportunities to advance your career.

Responsibilities

• Working with Azure Cloud Lab Site Reliability Engineers to ensure consistent and seamless deployment of DELVE
• Design and maintain reliable deployment pipelines and operational processes
• Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, operating systems, applications, and cloud services
• Document architectures, deployment procedures, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and system configurations
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, manage variables and state, and integrate infrastructure-as-code into CI/CD workflows

Requirements

• Active US security clearance at the TOP SECRET level
• 6+ years experience as Dev(Sec)Ops Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience
• Ability and willingness to commute to Wright Patterson Air Force Base up to 3 days/week
• Strong experience deploying, configuring, securing, and maintaining Kubernetes (K8s) environments
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with containerized applications and images
• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests
• Experience with namespaces, deployments, services, ingress, secrets, and persistent storage
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and service discovery
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management
• Experience with rolling updates, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, including relevant infrastructure, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security capabilities
• Experience with source control and collaborative development workflows, preferably Git-based
• Experience automating infrastructure, application deployments, configuration, and operational tasks through scripting or code
• Proficiency with one or more scripting or programming languages: PowerShell, Python, Bash, Go
• Understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption, vulnerability management, and least-privilege principles

Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code platform
• Ability to evaluate current manual processes and identify opportunities for automation
• Ability to improve repeatability, consistency, and auditability of deployments
• Experience automating Azure resource provisioning
• Experience automating Kubernetes cluster and application configuration
• Experience automating certificate and secret management
• Experience automating environment promotion
• Experience automating backup and recovery processes
• Experience automating compliance evidence collection
• Experience automating health checks and operational reporting

Schedule

Full-time; up to 3 days per week on-site at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.