Lead DevSecOps Engineer

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider delivering technology and consulting solutions for complex client challenges. The Lead DevSecOps Engineer will provide technical leadership and delivery oversight for cloud platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, infrastructure provisioning, release execution, security patterns, and platform operations supporting a federal agency’s enterprise data and analytics ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Lead platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations activities
• Oversee implementation and maintenance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platform environments
• Direct CI/CD pipeline design, automation initiatives, release management activities, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) implementations
• Ensure platform changes adhere to approved architecture, security, compliance, and operational standards
• Coordinate engineering and operations teams to deliver repeatable, auditable, and testable infrastructure solutions
• Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, performance, and operational metrics using SRE best practices
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement efforts
• Collaborate with security, architecture, and delivery leadership to achieve release readiness and deployment objectives
• Establish and maintain automated deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning processes
• Support modernization initiatives involving cloud-native platforms, OpenShift environments, containerized applications, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to DevSecOps engineers, platform engineers, and administrators
• Prepare technical status reports, operational metrics, and briefings for client and internal stakeholders

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S
• must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience supporting cloud platform operations, DevSecOps, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related technical disciplines. Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience leading DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms
• Deep experience leading the implementation and operation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions utilizing Terraform, including reusable modules, infrastructure standards, policy enforcement, environment provisioning, and automated platform deployment patterns
• Strong leadership and team coordination skills
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and quality
• Commitment to continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence
• Extensive experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating Databricks environments, including workspace administration, Unity Catalog implementation, access management, platform policies, cluster governance, and automated provisioning
• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, and enterprise release automation frameworks
• Experience implementing and governing cloud platform operations across Azure Government, Azure Commercial, AWS GovCloud, and hybrid-cloud architectures
• Experience leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including observability, monitoring, incident response, operational readiness, service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), reliability engineering, and production support models
• Experience overseeing release execution, deployment governance, rollback readiness, operational acceptance, and release evidence collection within regulated environments
• Experience implementing platform security controls, secrets management, certificate management, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, and automated compliance validation
• Experience supporting large-scale data, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud modernization initiatives leveraging Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, Power BI, and related technologies
• Experience with identity and access management solutions including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, service principals, managed identities, federation, and privileged access controls
• Experience leading platform operational processes including environment management, change control, incident management, problem management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and service continuity
• Experience collaborating with Cloud Data Architects, Security Leads, RMF/ATO personnel, Agile Delivery Managers, SRE teams, QA teams, and Government stakeholders to ensure secure, auditable, and supportable platform operations
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, RMF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FIPS, cybersecurity governance, and Federal compliance requirements
• Experience establishing engineering standards, mentoring technical teams, driving technical decision-making, and implementing operational best practices across large engineering organizations
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments requiring scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence
• Experience supporting Federal government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and enterprise-scale delivery organizations