[Hiring] Lead DevSecOps Engineer @ICF

Role Description

This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

At ICF, our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.

Join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow, the team is focused on:

• Migrating legacy workloads
• Streamlining onboarding and support
• Expanding platform capabilities
• Helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale

The DevSecOps Lead provides technical leadership and day-to-day delivery oversight for:

• Platform engineering
• DevSecOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Infrastructure provisioning
• Release execution
• Core platform operations

This role owns the implementation of approved cloud architecture and security patterns, coordinates platform activities across engineers and administrators, and ensures infrastructure changes are repeatable, auditable, testable, and supportable. The DevSecOps Lead partners closely with:

• Cloud Data Architect
• Security/RMF/ATO Lead
• Agile Delivery Manager

to ensure platform delivery excellence, operational readiness, incident management, and successful release execution.

Qualifications

• 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., all work must be performed in the U.S. and 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Pay Range: $119,323.00 - $202,850.00 based on full-time employment.
• Multiple factors considered in determining final pay including relevant work experience, skills, certifications, geographic location, education, and contract provisions.