DevSecOps Engineer/Solution Architect

SES Corporation is focused on providing IT services for the Department of Veteran Affairs' home loan product-line technology. The DevSecOps Engineer/Solution Architect will define architectural direction, make critical decisions, and ensure implementations meet specified criteria while working in an AWS environment and managing CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture & Technical Leadership Define the end-to-end DevSecOps and cloud architecture approach for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and deployment patterns
• Make and document architectural decisions (standards, patterns, tool selection, tradeoffs) aligned to program requirements
• Establish architectural guardrails and acceptance criteria to ensure implementations meet security and operational expectations
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts (logical/physical diagrams, reference architectures, standards, decision records)
• CI/CD Platform Engineering (Jenkins + Multi-Environment Delivery) Architect, configure, and maintain Jenkins servers supporting multiple CI/CD pipelines across Dev/Test/Stage/Prod environments
• Design scalable pipeline patterns (shared libraries, templates, standard stages, approvals, and promotion strategies)
• Implement strategies for high availability, performance, access control, and plugin governance for Jenkins
• Drive pipeline reliability through standardized build/deploy processes, error handling, and repeatable automation
• GitHub & GitOps Enablement Integrate pipelines with GitHub (branching strategies, PR workflows, hooks/webhooks, checks, release tagging). Establish and support GitOps workflows (declarative configuration, environment promotion, and drift management)
• Promote consistent repository and workflow standards across engineering teams
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation Design and implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tools to enable repeatable and secure provisioning
• Build automation for environment creation, configuration management, and compliance alignment
• Ensure IaC follows best practices: modularity, versioning, secure secrets handling, and policy enforcement
• Cloud Engineering & Deployment Strategy (AWS) Architect and oversee AWS environment usage, ensuring alignment to cloud best practices and program constraints
• Define secure deployment patterns and connectivity requirements across AWS accounts/environments
• Collaborate with security and operations to ensure logging/monitoring, identity/access, and encryption requirements are satisfied
• Integration with AWS Native CI/CD (Plus) Where applicable, incorporate AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy into delivery workflows or migration plans
• Evaluate and recommend when Jenkins vs. AWS native CI/CD services is the best fit, and define integration approaches
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery Assurance Partner with application teams, cloud engineers, security, and SRE/operations to ensure delivery solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to DevSecOps engineers and platform teams
• Participate in planning, backlog refinement, and technical reviews to ensure architectural alignment

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating solutions in an AWS environment
• Strong expertise managing Jenkins servers supporting multiple CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments (Dev/Test/Stage/Prod)
• Proficiency with GitHub and integrating CI/CD workflows with repo policies and pull request governance
• Demonstrated ability to define architectural direction and make key design decisions that guide delivery teams
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts: pipeline-as-code, artifact management, promotion strategies, approvals, rollback, and release orchestration
• Ability to design secure delivery workflows (least privilege, auditing, repeatability, controlled deployments)
• Experience producing architectural documentation and standards (diagrams, reference patterns, ADRs, governance)
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across build, deploy, infrastructure, and configuration issues
• Proficiency with Terraform and/or Ansible (or similar tools) for infrastructure provisioning and configuration automation
• Experience implementing modular IaC patterns, reusable automation components, and policy-as-code approaches
• Experience with AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy (implementation, integration, or migration)
• Familiarity with AWS-native deployment strategies and integrations (e.g., blue/green, canary patterns where applicable)
• Hands-on experience implementing GitOps patterns (declarative environments, sync/reconciliation workflows, drift detection)
• Familiarity with platform reliability practices (monitoring/alerting strategies, scaling approaches, HA considerations)