Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm focused on building and investing in technology-led companies, particularly in healthcare, cyber, and national security. They are seeking a DevSecOps Project Lead to manage the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle for mission-critical DoD software, ensuring secure and reliable deployments in compliance with DoD requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Design and scale hosting architecture in IL-5 environments with a path to IL-6
- Evaluate and select deployment strategies across government networks, GovCloud, and hybrid platforms
- Build a production environment that supports zero-downtime deployments and enterprise-scale growth
- Design, build, and operate a modern CI/CD pipeline with integrated testing, security scanning, and compliance validation
- Establish and manage development, staging, and production environments
- Ensure alignment with DoD requirements (e.g., Iron Bank, STIGs, ACAS/OpenSCAP, FIPS)
- Lead transition from incumbent contractor and government-furnished environments
- Inventory, assess, and rationalize existing services, dependencies, and infrastructure
- Simplify and consolidate architecture into a scalable, maintainable system
- Own release cadence from capability intake through production deployment
- Ensure deployment quality through monitoring, rollback readiness, and performance metrics (e.g., uptime, failure rates)
- Support continuous delivery aligned with government timelines and operational needs
- Partner with Platform Security and RMF leadership to align on ATO strategy
- Ensure the pipeline generates required artifacts for authorization and continuous compliance
- Embed security and compliance into the delivery lifecycle—not as a post-deployment step
Requirements:
- 8+ years of DevOps/DevSecOps engineering experience, including at least one production pipeline owned end-to-end at scale
- 5+ years experience operating in DoD cloud environments (Azure Gov IL-5, AWS GovCloud, or equivalent IL-5 authorized environment). Working knowledge of DoD impact-level boundaries and the CC SRG
- Hands-on experience managing at least one complete ATO or cATO pathway in production
- US Citizenship Required
- Active Secret Clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
- Willingness to travel up to 25% to USMC sites, Defcon AI HQ, and industry vendor facilities as required
- Active TS/SCI Clearance
- Experience supporting USMC or similar Service environments
- Experience transitioning systems from one contractor to another
- Experience with Iron Bank container certification
- Familiarity with platforms such as Second Front (Game Warden), Stormbreaker, or Black Pearl
- Exposure to Palantir Foundry or Anduril Lattice environment