DevSecOps Automation Engineer

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

What you will be doing?

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Manages routing/switching and network security, multi‑OS environments, virtualization (e.g., VMware/Hyper‑V), core cloud services, and release of IaC via pipelines; automates common admin tasks.

• Work & Complexity: Plans and executes upgrades/migrations, configures network devices and services, responds to incidents, monitors performance, and manages resources.

• Quality & Independence: Implements proactive monitoring, produces accurate documentation, improves processes, and works independently within project scope.

• Teamwork & Communication: Partners with peer teams, shares knowledge, coordinates changes, reports progress, and supports/train users.

• Consulting & Engagement: Advises internal teams on solutions and tools, evaluates technologies, recommends optimizations, and coordinates vendor support.

Project Summary

The DevSecOps Automation Engineer builds secure, repeatable automation that enables a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program as applications move from on-premises data centers to Azure and AWS. The role develops secure infrastructure as code, reusable CI/CD pipelines and migration scripts, and automated security and operational validation for migration, rollback, and recovery activities. Working closely with enterprise platform and security teams, the engineer applies established automation standards and repositories while embedding security, configuration, authentication, and operational controls throughout the migration lifecycle. The role is remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains secure, reusable infrastructure as code for Azure and AWS target environments using established enterprise patterns and repositories.
• Builds and maintains reusable CI/CD pipelines, scripts, and workflows that automate application migration, configuration, deployment, validation, rollback, and recovery.
• Automates security, compliance, configuration, and policy checks within build and deployment workflows.
• Creates automated pre- and post-migration validation to confirm infrastructure, applications, authentication, connectivity, configuration, and required services operate as expected.
• Integrates approved security controls and guardrails into automation in coordination with enterprise platform and security teams.  
• Maintains source control, documentation, and reusable automation assets that improve migration speed, consistency, traceability, and repeatability.
• Supports migration teams and guides less experienced engineers in DevSecOps automation, secure pipeline practices, troubleshooting, and remediation.

Required For This Opportunity

• US Citizen
• Minimum five years of DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud automation, or infrastructure automation experience
• Hands-on experience developing secure infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar tools
• Experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools, including automated testing and security checks
• Experience automating deployments in Azure and AWS cloud environments using secure identity, access-control, and configuration practices
• Works on issues of diverse scope under limited guidance and independently determines the approach to assignments

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with Azure Government or AWS GovCloud environments·       
• Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or relevant cloud security or automation certification
• Strong scripting and automation experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar languages
• Experience automating cloud migration, validation, rollback, recovery, or security-control tasks
• Federal program delivery experience
• Experience with GitHub, secure source-control practices, workflow automation, and GitHub Copilot
• Familiarity with Zero Trust, DevSecOps automation practices, and the practical use of AI technologies in IT delivery or cloud environments 

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