Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a DevSecOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Technical Director to lead the secure delivery and reliability engineering of a mission-critical VA cloud platform. The role involves providing senior technical leadership for all DevSecOps practices and SRE services while ensuring CI/CD pipelines are secure, automated, and compliant.

Responsibilities

• Maintains regular communication with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and Government technical leadership regarding platform reliability, deployment activities, and operational improvements
• Provides senior technical oversight for all DevSecOps and SRE activities ensuring platform delivery velocity, security posture, and operational resilience meet or exceed contractual performance objectives
• Governs CI/CD pipeline architecture across all supported applications
• Ensures 100% of pipelines integrate automated security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA/container scanning) and enforce environment segregation
• Leads SRE practices including 24/7 on-call coverage governance, Golden Signal monitoring, Service Level Indicators/Objectives (SLI/SLO) definition, and incident response for all assigned applications
• Ensures 100% of infrastructure components are provisioned and managed through approved IaC tooling
• Enforces code reviews and approval cycle time of no more than 3 business days
• Oversees implementation of advanced deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rolling) with automated rollback mechanisms to minimize deployment risk to production services
• Ensures all DevSecOps and SRE practices comply with VA security, privacy, and RMF requirements
• Supports ATO and continuous authorization activities
• Collaborates with leadership to align platform delivery, reliability, and observability strategies
• Continuously evaluates and implements improvements to automation, security integration, and deployment efficiency
• Improves DevSecOps metrics across the program

Skills

• 8 years of experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, and technical leadership
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related field
• Expert experience providing technical leadership for DevSecOps and platform engineering activities supporting complex enterprise systems in a SAFe environment
• Expert experience in cloud-native architectures, containerized environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and automated infrastructure management
• Expert experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise CI/CD pipeline architectures (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) in a Kubernetes/Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environment
• Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Expert ability to integrate Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), container scanning, and IaC scanning into delivery pipelines
• Excellent experience enforcing secure software supply chain practices and zero-trust principles
• Excellent experience enforcing IaC governance, automated testing, and policy-as-code across all environment types
• Excellent experience with SRE practices (e.g., Service Level Indicators, objectives, agreements, error budget management, capacity planning, toil reduction via automation)
• Excellent knowledge of advanced deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rolling deployments) with automated rollback in Kubernetes environments
• Excellent understanding of observability practices (e.g., logging, metrics, distributed tracing and integration with enterprise monitoring platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk))
• Above average experience supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, continuous authorization, and audit activities in a Federal Risk management Framework (RMF) environment
• Above average knowledge of PI Planning, DevSecOps maturity models, and DevOps metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR)
• Working knowledge of VA OI&T security policies, FISMA compliance requirements, and NIST 800-53 control implementation in DevSecOps contexts
• Experience supporting Federal Government programs and large-scale mission-critical applications operating in cloud or hybrid environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.

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