Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Who We Are

Known for being a Best Place to Work and a People First company, IronArch Technology is an award-winning Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in providing innovative solutions and world class services to Federal Government clients.

Our employees have voted us as a 'Best Place to Work' 9 times and we are an INC 5000 recipient for being one of the fastest growing businesses in the United States.

Our Values: Deliver Outcomes with Speed | Own the Work and the Results | Respect People. Speak Directly. | Stay Curious. Enjoy the Journey.

What You’ll Do

IronArch Technology is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) RISE program. This is a senior individual contributor role on an event-driven platform that multiple engineering teams and partner programs build on. The program's Amazon MSK (Kafka) event bus is becoming the shared integration backbone for a growing set of producers and consumers, and you will join the DevOps engineers who make adopting it smooth and safe, bringing the security depth of that work to the team.

You will coordinate with the program's engineering teams and with partner teams adopting the platform and guide them through integration end to end: schema design and review, producer and consumer patterns, secure delivery pipelines, and production readiness.

You will also keep the platform itself healthy: secure, automated infrastructure, strong observability, and delivery practices that let teams ship quickly, reliably, and safely.

Work Location: Remote (U.S.-based). Occasional travel may be required for program meetings, planning sessions, or production support activities.

Core Hours: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST

Responsibilities

Event Bus Integration

• Guide teams integrating with the program's Amazon MSK (Kafka) event bus, from first design conversation through production cutover.
• Contribute to schema design, review, and governance for new producers and consumers, helping teams and vendors reach agreement.
• Help define and document integration patterns, onboarding guides, and production-readiness criteria so each new integration is faster and safer than the last.
• Coordinate cross-team and cross-program integration work, including consumers outside the immediate program that are adopting the event bus.

DevSecOps & Secure Delivery

• Build and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) that embed security scanning, testing, and compliance checks into every release.
• Champion DevSecOps practices across teams: secrets management, dependency and container scanning, least-privilege access, and auditable deployments.
• Ensure delivery practices align with VA security and compliance requirements.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

• Operate and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting the event bus and related services, managed as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Share responsibility for MSK cluster operations: capacity planning, topic and partition strategy, scaling, upgrades, and cost efficiency.
• Automate deployment, configuration management, and release processes.

Reliability & Observability

• Partner with the program's observability effort to ensure streaming infrastructure and integrations are well instrumented: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing.
• Support production operations for the event bus, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Help teams design consumers and producers for resiliency, replayability, and graceful failure.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product owners, engineering leads, and VA stakeholders to sequence and deliver integration work.
• Operate effectively in a complex multi-vendor Federal program, building trust across organizational boundaries.
• Mentor engineers on event-driven architecture and DevSecOps practices.