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Sr DevSecOps / Platform Engineer

Kairos

HybridAtlanta, GAseniorPosted 1d ago

Job description

Location : Atlanta, GA ------- Hybrid -- 2 days in week

Employment Type Full-Time

Senior DevSecOps / Cloud / Platform Engineer

Position Summary

Senior DevSecOps / Cloud / Platform Engineer to design, operate, and improve secure cloud and DevSecOps platforms that support modern software delivery for Federal public health applications. This role builds reliable CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, container platforms, security controls, and operational tooling that enable engineering teams to deliver software safely and consistently.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and automated deployment processes.

  • Manage infrastructure as code, environment configuration, secrets, certificates, and deployment automation.

  • Support Kubernetes-based platforms and container packaging across development, test, staging, and operational environments.

  • Integrate automated code quality, security scanning, artifact management, and deployment gates into delivery pipelines.

  • Collaborate with engineering, QA, cybersecurity, architecture, and operations teams to improve delivery reliability and security.

  • Monitor platform health, deployment performance, capacity, logs, and operational events and resolve platform issues.

  • Implement repeatable environment provisioning and configuration-management practices.

  • Support release management, disaster recovery, backup, observability, and operational readiness activities.

  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve pipeline speed, consistency, and resilience.

  • Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and platform standards.

Required Qualifications

  • 6+ years of DevSecOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or related experience.

  • Strong experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and container technologies.

  • Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud environments.

  • Experience integrating code quality, SAST/DAST, artifact, and container-security tooling into delivery pipelines.

  • Strong Linux, scripting, automation, networking, and troubleshooting skills.

  • Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automated environment provisioning.

  • Strong collaboration and technical documentation skills.

Education

Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

Preferred:

Advanced cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering training.

Target Certifications

  • AWS or Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with GitHub, SonarQube, Fortify, container registries, and automated security gates.

  • Experience with Argo CD, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native observability.

  • Experience supporting Java/Spring-based enterprise applications.

  • Familiarity with FISMA and NIST security environments.