About the role
Job Description
Position Summary Candidates must have prior experience supporting the Department of Commerce (DOC) or the specific agency this position supports. Candidates without relevant agency experience will not be considered for this position.
Leads the integration of application engineering, cybersecurity, automation, release management, service management, and production operations into a unified delivery model. Bridges DME and O&M teams to improve deployment speed, security, reliability, observability, and continuous service improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* Establish and lead integrated DevSecOps, release, environment, configuration, and operations-management practices. * Design and govern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security gates, infrastructure/configuration automation, and deployment controls. * Integrate cybersecurity requirements throughout the software delivery lifecycle and coordinate remediation, compliance evidence, and operational security activities. * Lead monitoring, observability, incident, problem, change, release, availability, capacity, and service-continuity practices. * Implement automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities where appropriate to improve reliability, response, and efficiency. * Ensure production readiness, transition-to-operations, runbook development, knowledge transfer, and rollback/recovery planning. * Manage platform onboarding, operational acceptance, performance baselines, service metrics, and continuous-improvement backlogs. * Coordinate platform engineers, developers, security personnel, service-desk resources, and vendor teams across supported technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum Education and Experience
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. * Minimum 10 years of experience in application operations, DevSecOps, site reliability, platform engineering, cloud operations, or enterprise infrastructure. * Direct experience in Department of Commerce OCIO software environments is REQUIRED. * Minimum 5 years leading DevSecOps, platform engineering, application operations, or service-delivery teams. * Demonstrated experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, security integration, monitoring/observability, and cloud or platform automation. * Demonstrated experience supporting secure application delivery and federal cybersecurity or compliance requirements.
Required Certifications
* Security+ or an advanced security certification such as CISSP or CISM. * At least one relevant delivery/platform certification, such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Preferred Qualifications and Certifications
* ITIL 4 Managing Professional or comparable IT service-management certification. * Experience with Microsoft, ServiceNow, Salesforce, or federal shared-services environments. * Experience implementing AI-assisted operations, automated monitoring, or event-correlation capabilities.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.