2 days ago
Arlington, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, secure, maintain, and modernize scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services for mission-critical DoD environments supporting advanced AI capabilities.
- Architect and improve secure CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, vulnerability scanning, artifact signing, provenance, attestation, and policy-as-code.
- Establish secure container orchestration and runtime standards using Docker, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code and configuration management solutions with Terraform to automate provisioning and create reproducible environments.
- Design and manage cloud networking, virtual machines, application gateways, API management platforms, and containerized services.
- Implement RMF, STIG compliance, vulnerability management, identity, authentication, authorization, and least-privilege controls.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and reliability practices for secure and stable platform operations.
- Support secure infrastructure for AI-native workloads and LLM foundation model testing, including platform security, auditability, and data protection.
- Create reusable platform architectures, infrastructure accelerators, and engineering standards for adoption across teams and engagements.
- Advise government stakeholders and delivery teams on architecture, risks, implementation decisions, trade-offs, security, scalability, cost, and timelines.
- Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and improve engineering delivery practices and team capabilities.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, systems engineering, or related disciplines.
- Deep hands-on experience designing and improving secure CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, and related technologies.
- Strong experience with software supply-chain security, vulnerability scanning, artifact signing, provenance, attestation, and policy-as-code.
- Proven experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and secure deployment and runtime standards.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
- Experience designing, securing, modernizing, and troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure, networking, application gateways, API management services, and microservices architectures.
- Working knowledge of RMF, STIG compliance, vulnerability management, and secure DevOps practices in DoD IL2 through IL5/IL6 environments.
- Experience implementing identity and access management, including ADFS/SAML, least-privilege principles, and secure authentication and authorization.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and reliability practices.
- Experience supporting AI-enabled workloads or LLM foundation model testing.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in architecture, reusable engineering standards, and translating security and mission requirements into scalable solutions.
- Strong client-facing communication, advisory, collaboration, technical trade-off, timeline-setting, and mentoring skills.
- U.S. citizenship and an active DoW Secret or higher clearance are required.
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- Must possess or obtain CompTIA Security+ CE or another DoD-approved IAT Level II certification within 30 days of hire.
- Must possess or obtain an Associate- or Professional-level cloud certification from Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services within 30 days of hire.
- Preferred qualifications include AI platform security, prompt-injection defenses, workload identity federation, DLP, output governance, SonarQube, Trivy, Cosign, PyTorch, Zero Trust, hybrid cloud connectivity, cloud identity federation, service-level objectives, federal or DoD platform operations, and DoD 8000-series information security experience.
Benefits
- Primarily remote work, with the DC metro area preferred and occasional onsite meetings as needed.
- Flexible PTO and all Federal holidays off.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- Flexible Spending Account and 401k with employer match.
- Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Professional development through training, certifications, and conferences.
- Paid cloud developer accounts and referral bonuses.
- HQ perks including parking or metro reimbursement, nitro coffee, and lunches.
- Annual social events and access to Washington Capitals and Nationals tickets.
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About 540
540 is a privately held technology consulting firm that builds custom software, APIs, data pipelines, and DevOps solutions for U.S. federal agencies and select commercial clients. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it delivers tech strategy and implementation across web, mobile, and analytics, with work spanning defense and federal health data modernization initiatives. The company operates a professional services model with project-based and advisory engagements.