DevSecOps & SRE Technical Director
Latitude IT Solutions · Melbourne, Florida, United States
About the role
Lead the continuous delivery, site reliability, and security automation for a large-scale VA health IT platform. Manage CI/CD pipelines, Terraform IaC, and ensure automated compliance with NIST 800-53 and VA-specific controls.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of DevSecOps or SRE experience in federal cloud environments with expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform. Must be a US Citizen with active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials.
Benefits
Full description
Who we are...
Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today.
About the Role
Latitude IT Solutions is seeking a DevSecOps & SRE Technical Director to own the continuous delivery, site reliability, and security automation backbone of a large-scale VA health IT platform. You lead CI/CD pipelines, blue/green and canary deployments, Terraform IaC, policy-as-code guardrails, and the automated compliance controls that enable safe, high-velocity delivery across multiple EKS environments.
What You'll Do
- Own and operate CI/CD pipelines and blue/green/canary deployment frameworks across Production, Staging, and Sandbox EKS clusters
- Build and enforce policy-as-code guardrails: automated compliance checks against NIST 800-53, TRM, and VA-specific controls before production deployment
- Manage Terraform IaC for all VAEC infrastructure provisioning; ensure all changes are code-reviewed and version-controlled
- Lead SRE functions: define SLIs, track SLOs against PWS SLA tiers, manage error budgets, and own reliability reviews
- Operate the Istio service mesh: traffic management, mTLS enforcement, and sidecar lifecycle across all EKS namespaces
- Lead SAST, DAST, container scanning, and Fortify remediation — maintaining ATO with zero unmitigated critical CVEs
- Maintain the onboarding pipeline: IaC-driven runbook bringing new engineers to readiness within contractual timeframes
- Support Optional Task surge efforts for DevSecOps/SRE as defined in the Performance Work Statement
What You Bring
- 8+ years of DevSecOps or SRE experience in federal cloud environments
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes/EKS at scale with multi-namespace production operations
- Expert-level Terraform/IaC in AWS GovCloud
- Blue/green and canary deployment engineering in production federal environments
- Istio service mesh, mTLS, and service-to-service security in Kubernetes
- NIST 800-53, VA RMF, and ATO-supporting tooling (SAST, DAST, Fortify, Nessus)
- Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials
Preferred
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Vault Associate certification
- VA TASPL / VIP Guide 4.0 experience
- MSK/Kafka or VistA integration experience
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Clearance...
• Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information
Citizenship...
• Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements.
Employee Benefits...
- Medical, Vision, Dental
- Paid Vacation & Sick Time
- Paid Federal Holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- Continued Education Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
