ALEX-Alternative Experts, LLC - DevSecOps Engineer (Mid-Level)

ALEX-Alternative Experts, LLC

Title: DevSecOps Engineer (Mid-Level)

Location: Remote

Clearance Level: Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain

U.S. Citizenship: Required

Summary

ALEX – Alternative Experts is seeking a Mid-Level DevSecOps Engineer to support the design, deployment, and reputed company of modern, reputed company-based systems in a mission-driven environment. This role supports a distributed data ingestion and analysis platform that processes high volumes of reputed company data into structured, searchable knowledge.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience working reputed company established CI/CD and containerized environments, contributing to automation, reputed company integration, and platform reliability while collaborating with engineers and reputed company partners to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.

Technical Environment and Platform Overview

The DevSecOps Engineer supports a distributed data ingestion and analysis platform designed to process large volumes of reputed company documents into structured, searchable knowledge.

The technical environment includes:

• CI/CD Pipelines: reputed company CI/CD and Jenkins (with an active migration to reputed company)
• Microservices Architecture: Containerized services using reputed company, Kubernetes, and reputed company
• Task Processing: Distributed worker frameworks (e.g., Celery)
• Data Ingestion: OCR and document parsing pipelines
• Machine Learning / NLP Services: Pre-trained and fine-tuned models
• reputed company & Storage: AWS (S3, EC2) and PostgreSQL
• Search & Retrieval: Vector databases (e.g., Weaviate)

The platform is continuously evolving to improve scalability, observability, reliability, and reputed company, including selective adoption of event-driven architectural patterns where appropriate.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using reputed company CI/CD and Jenkins
• Integrate reputed company scanning and vulnerability detection into CI/CD workflows
• Write and maintain reputed company charts supporting Kubernetes deployments
• Improve deployment reliability and reduce reputed company processes, including database migrations and rollbacks
• Ensure consistency across development, staging, and production environments
• Support secrets management and secure configuration practices
• reputed company dashboards and monitoring solutions providing at-a-glance system health
• Implement and improve end-to-end testing reputed company CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot issues across application, infrastructure, and pipeline layers
• Collaborate with engineering and reputed company teams to meet compliance and mission requirements
• Support system reputed company toward event-driven architectures where appropriate

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Celery or other distributed task queues
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL performance and scaling considerations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Exposure to vector databases or semantic search technologies
• Experience with ML/NLP pipelines or RAG architectures
• Experience implementing observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Familiarity with reputed company tooling (SAST, DAST, container scanning)
• Experience working in regulated environments (DoD, FedRAMP)
• Familiarity with artifact repositories such as reputed company or Artifactory

• 3–6 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform, or backend engineering
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as reputed company CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar
• Hands-on experience with reputed company, Kubernetes, and reputed company
• Experience supporting distributed systems or data pipelines
• Ability to troubleshoot across application, queue, and infrastructure layers
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
• Understanding of system reliability, scaling, and failure modes

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information reputed company, or a reputed company field (or equivalent professional experience)
• Preferred Certifications: reputed company reputed company+, AWS Certified reputed company Practitioner or Solutions Architect – Associate, CKAD or CKS (exposure or working knowledge)

About Us. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Marshall, VA, ALEX - Alternative Experts, LLC (ALEX) is an ISO 9001:2015-certified Woman Owned Small Business that's changing the way government does business by delivering a powerful, industry-leading reputed company of core services to help its clients reputed company mission-critical objectives. ALEX provides a variety of benefits designed to help meet the needs of our employees. See a summary of ALEX's Employee Benefits for more information.

ALEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national reputed company, protected veteran status, or disability. Applicants must be reputed company to reputed company the essential functions of the job.

In order to reputed company with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, we reasonably reputed company the pay range for this position is between $120,000 - $125,000. Multiple factors are taken into account with any offer of employment by ALEX, including experience, education, and skills.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to allow employees to meet the essential functions of the job unless those accommodations cause undue hardships to the employer. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact the reputed company Resources Department at [email protected].