DevSecOps/Platform Engineer

About the role

SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a DevSecOps/Platform Engineer to join our team supporting the Department of Education’s (DoED) Federal Student Aid (FSA) Cybersecurity and Privacy Support Services (CPSS) in Washington, DC.

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities:

- Engineer CI/CD workflows using customer's existing Atlassian Cloud, FSA GitLab, and NGDC AWS environment.

- Implement pipeline-as-code, reusable templates, automated quality gates, environment provisioning, configuration automation, and release controls.

- Integrate unit, integration, end-to-end, security, compliance, and infrastructure testing into delivery workflows.

- Implement infrastructure-as-code and cloud deployment patterns that support portable and severable applications.

- Maintain pipeline tool inventories, code standards, reusable libraries, SOPs, runbooks, and technical documentation.

- Support compliance with NIST SP 800-218, applicable OMB/CISA guidance, STIGs, and CIS standards.

- Provide platform troubleshooting, performance improvement, access support, and technical guidance to development and Government stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of experience.

- Senior industry professional certification such as CISSP or equivalent.

- Hands-on experience implementing enterprise CI/CD, cloud/platform automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and release automation.

- Experience with Git-based development, automated testing, security-tool integration, and AWS or comparable cloud environments.

- Ability to develop and maintain technical procedures, reusable automation, and platform documentation.

- Ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust. At least an active Secret clearance is highly preferred.

- U.S. Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

- GitLab CI/CD and Git workflows

- Atlassian Jira/Confluence

- AWS DevSecOps

- Terraform/CloudFormation or equivalent IaC

- Containers and platform automation