DevSecOps Cloud Automation Engineer - Clearance Required

LMI is a digital solutions provider supporting federal agencies with innovative technology, mission-ready AI, and commercial-grade platforms. The DevSecOps & Cloud Automation Engineer will support the U.S. Army Training Information System by building, securing, maintaining, and optimizing AWS GovCloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and security capabilities while collaborating across technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and standardize GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable jobs, parent/child pipelines, runners, triggers, and integrated security testing
• Build and maintain AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and other automation, emphasizing reusable, resilient, secure, and maintainable solutions
• Create and maintain Ansible Playbooks for Windows and Linux installation, patching, hardening, configuration, and operational support
• Support AWS services and containerized workloads, including EC2, RDS, ECR/EKS, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, and approved/hardened container images such as Iron Bank
• Automate security controls, vulnerability remediation, and validation; support DoD security tooling such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, CloudWatch agents, and related capabilities
• Troubleshoot and independently resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve existing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities while reducing technical debt and redundant solutions
• Collaborate across application, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture teams to develop and implement solutions that support changing ATIS priorities
• Create and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and reusable patterns that enable team self-sufficiency and knowledge transfer
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers while remaining directly engaged in hands-on engineering and implementation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 7+ years of hands-on DevSecOps, cloud, platform, systems, or infrastructure automation experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and Linux administration in production environments
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible
• Working knowledge of containers, cloud networking, IAM, and secure infrastructure design
• Experience implementing cybersecurity guardrails, vulnerability remediation, and automated security validation in secure or regulated environments
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, pipeline, operating system, networking, container, and security issues
• Strong technical communication, documentation, and independent problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across application, cloud, architecture, and cybersecurity teams and manage competing priorities
• Active DoW Secret security clearance
• Active DoDI 8140-compliant certification (e.g., Security+, CISSP, CISM) or ability to obtain
• Occasional travel required for PI Planning, program events, user engagement sessions, and key milestones
• AWS GovCloud experience and familiarity with NIST, RMF, DoD 8140, and DoD authorization/compliance processes
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, ECR, GitOps, and containerized application delivery
• Experience with Army/DoW security and monitoring tools such as ACAS, Elastic Agent, and CloudWatch agents
• Experience standardizing DevSecOps and cloud capabilities at scale and supporting ATO activities
• Experience working within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) or supporting Army, DoD, or other mission-critical systems