DevSecOps / Automation Engineer

About the role

Company Overview:

Over the past 15 years, eTel has delivered essential solutions for the federal government by securing and managing data, providing scalable identity access, modernizing legacy systems, and building high-performance platforms. By integrating new technologies and ensuring reliable operations we help agencies stay prepared for future challenges As a premier technology solutions and services company to the US federal government, eTel possesses longstanding relationships across the federal civilian marketplace. Other customers include the broader Treasury Department, Commerce Department, and State Department.

eTel offers integrated CMMI Level 3 processes, tools, and techniques with innovative, cost-efficient, and secure solutions to address complex challenges. eTel also holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certifications, and offers dedicated subject matter experts (SMEs) and thought leaders that possess a deep understanding of customers’ environments and challenges.

Place of Performance: Hybrid – Washington, DC Metro Area (IRS facilities and approved remote work locations)

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain an IRS Moderate Background Investigation (MBI)/Public Trust.

About the role:

You will build the pipelines and automation that let API changes and Kong configuration reach production safely and the same way every time. Your work turns manual onboarding steps into self service, with security checks built in.

What you will do:

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that test, scan and deploy API and Kong gateway configuration through IRS environments.

- Manage gateway and platform configuration as code in Git, with peer review and versioned releases.

- Write infrastructure as code and configuration automation for OpenShift and cloud resources.

- Add security and validation checks to every pipeline so nothing reaches production without passing them.

- Automate repeatable onboarding tasks, such as consumer setup, certificate updates and policy changes, toward self service.

- Connect pipelines to IRS change control and ticketing, including ServiceNow records and Change Advisory Board (CAB) approvals.

- Script daily configuration backups and support quarterly restore tests.

- Document pipelines and hand over knowledge to the operations team.

What you bring:

- 3+ years in DevOps, DevSecOps, build and release, or platform automation.

- Experience building CI/CD pipelines in a tool such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.

- Infrastructure as code or configuration management with a tool such as Terraform, Ansible or Helm.

- Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift, and Linux.

- Scripting in Bash and Python.