DevOps Enablement Engineer / SDLC Lead

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. They are seeking a DevOps Enablement Engineer / SDLC Lead to serve as the primary point of engagement between ECS development teams and the DevLabs platform, combining hands-on DevSecOps enablement with product ownership responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary DevLabs liaison to ECS development teams, building relationships and maintaining ongoing engagement
• Conduct discovery sessions and requirements gathering with project teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and delivery goals
• Filter, prioritize, and translate team needs into actionable platform requirements and backlog items
• Develop and maintain decision tree frameworks that guide teams through technology choices, deployment patterns, and workflow options
• Own the onboarding intake process — assess team readiness, define onboarding plans, and track adoption progress
• Act as an internal product owner for the SDLC ecosystem, ensuring platform capabilities align with what teams actually need to ship software
• Establish feedback loops to continuously capture team experience and drive platform improvements
• Communicate platform capabilities, constraints, and roadmap to development teams and leadership
• Own the lifecycle and administration of Coder, the cloud-based developer workspace platform — including template design, workspace policies, resource right-sizing, and version upgrades
• Build, maintain, and curate a library of Coder workspace templates per tech stack (Go, Python, Node.js/React, data science, ML/GPU, full-stack) so project teams get a fully provisioned dev environment in minutes, not days
• Drive adoption of Coder and similar self-service developer tools across project teams as the standard onboarding path — replacing ad-hoc local setups with reproducible, secure, cloud-hosted workspaces
• Evaluate and pilot emerging developer experience platforms (Coder, Gitpod, GitHub Codespaces-equivalents, internal developer portals like Backstage) and recommend adoption where they advance the platform
• Continuously measure and improve developer time-to-first-commit, environment provisioning time, and onboarding friction — treat developer experience as a product metric
• Partner with the SRE on Coder workspace health, cost optimization (idle workspace cleanup, instance right-sizing), and template performance
• Maintain documentation, "Getting Started" guides, and tutorials that help teams self-serve common developer toolkit operations
• Design and maintain standardized CI/CD pipeline templates (GitLab CI)
• Implement DevSecOps practices including: Container image scanning (Trivy, Iron Bank compliance). Static code analysis and quality gates (SonarQube). SBOM generation and dependency tracking. Secret management (SOPS with AWS KMS)
• Develop and maintain Helm chart and GitOps deployment templates (Flux)
• Establish and enforce SDLC standards: Branching strategies and merge request workflows. Code review practices and approval gates. Testing requirements and coverage thresholds
• Collaborate with platform engineering to translate infrastructure requirements into developer-friendly patterns
• Support teams in containerization, Kubernetes deployments, and service mesh integration (Istio)
• Improve developer onboarding experience through documentation, automation, and self-service tooling
• Assist with modernization of legacy applications into containerized workloads
• Support incident response, deployment troubleshooting, and Flux reconciliation issues
• Administer enterprise AI tooling usage and governance
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and technical briefings

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship required
• 5+ years of software development or DevOps experience
• Demonstrated experience engaging directly with development teams to gather requirements and drive adoption of tools or processes
• Ability to synthesize competing priorities from multiple teams into a coherent backlog
• Experience administering or championing developer experience platforms (Coder, Gitpod, GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains Space, or similar cloud-based development environments)
• Strong experience with: GitLab CI/CD or similar pipeline platforms
• Docker and container image best practices
• Kubernetes (Helm, deployments, services, RBAC)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and security scanning tools
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and ability to work across organizational boundaries
• Experience in a product owner, technical lead, or enablement role where you owned intake and prioritization for an internal platform
• Hands-on experience operating Coder (coder.com) at scale — template authoring, workspace lifecycle management, OIDC integration
• Experience building internal developer portals (Backstage, Port, or similar)
• Experience with GitOps tooling (Flux or ArgoCD)
• Familiarity with AWS services (EKS, IAM, VPC, KMS, Route 53)
• Experience with Platform One Big Bang or DoD hardened Kubernetes distributions
• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio), policy engines (Kyverno), or identity providers (Keycloak)
• Exposure to AI/ML tooling integration in SDLC workflows
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, CMMC)