Senior DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI Cleared)

• Bachelor’s Degree or 10+ years of professional or military experience. 

• 10+ years of experience working as a field engineer, professional services consultant, or hands-on DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineer focused on infrastructure, virtualization and container technology.

• Active TS/SCI clearance

• Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration and networking.

• Deep knowledge of virtualization and hypervisor/HCI platforms such as VMWare, Harvester, OpenStack, Proxmox, etc.

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (5+ years), containers, and orchestration (Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker) for both operations, development, and security.

• Extensive experience with DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD), and automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).

• Excellent communication, consulting, and presentation skills, with proven ability to convey complex technical concepts to end-users both in-person and virtually.

• Proven experience creating technical content (white papers, blog posts) or presenting at technical forums/events.

• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with a proactive, self-motivated, and results-oriented mindset focused on customer success.

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• Act as a trusted technical leader and hands-on keyboard engineer for government agency customers, focusing on building, deploying, and maintaining RGS-based Virtualization, Kubernetes and Container solutions.

• Provide expert-level Platform, Infrastructure and DevOps technical engineering support, architecture design, and troubleshooting assistance across the entire Rancher product portfolio and complimentary open-source technologies (e.g., Harvester, Kubernetes, Monitoring, CI/CD tools).

• Develop technical solutions, proof-of-concepts, and reference architectures to help solve unique and complex customer problems, ensuring solutions meet stringent government security requirements.

• Maintain an expert-level understanding of the Rancher products and adjacent technologies like Harvester, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling.

• Collaborate directly with customers and partners to implement, integrate, and operationalize solutions based on Rancher, ensuring alignment with their long-term IT infrastructure and application development objectives.

• Act as an advocate for our customers by understanding their feature requests, use cases, and strategic goals, and communicating this critical feedback to internal Product Management and Engineering teams.

• Demonstrate the technical impact and value of Rancher solutions for users through compelling presentations, deep dives, and hands-on workshops.

• Develop and maintain strong, long-term technical relationships with key customer stakeholders and partners within strategic accounts.

• Perform analysis, design, and implementation to install, configure, and maintain software in air-gapped and on-premise platforms utilizing IaC and Configuration as Code (CaC) methodologies.

• Leverage deep technical knowledge of virtualization infrastructure and security protocols to deploy, improve, and harden complex infrastructure against rigorous government standards.

• Prioritize and research solutions to resolve complex integration, testing, and performance issues; troubleshoot application deployment failures to ensure mission readiness across the delivery team.

• Provide guidance and direction to fellow DevSecOps developers, engineers and administrators while interfacing effectively with multiple technical disciplines in a team environment.

• Act as a public technical representative of RGS by creating technical white papers, blog posts, and videos, and by speaking at industry events, conferences, and seminars to educate and engage the broader community.

• Contribute to the development of technical documentation, best practices, and knowledge sharing to support the wider RGS Services organization.

• Other duties as assigned.