The Senior SME - DevSecOps / Python Engineer provides senior technical leadership and hands-on engineering for secure software delivery, Python automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD within a federal enterprise environment. The role establishes secure delivery standards, builds reusable automation and services, and integrates security throughout the software development lifecycle.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and optimize Git-based CI/CD pipelines for Python and platform workloads using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning, SBOM generation, artifact signing, and security gates into delivery pipelines.
Develop production-grade Python automation, APIs, services, and operational tooling using Python, FastAPI/Flask, REST, and scripting frameworks.
Automate infrastructure and environment provisioning using Terraform, policy-as-code, GitOps, and configuration-as-code practices.
Build and secure Docker/container deployment patterns using Kubernetes/ECS and integrate AWS IAM, networking, secrets, encryption, and logging controls.
Lead secure design reviews, vulnerability remediation, production troubleshooting, incident root-cause analysis, technical mentoring, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, or a related technical field.
10+ years of software engineering, DevSecOps, cloud, platform, or security engineering experience, including senior technical leadership responsibilities.
Expert Python development skills, including FastAPI/Flask, REST APIs, automation, testing, packaging, logging, and secure coding practices.
Knowledge of OWASP, IAM/RBAC, Zero Trust, secrets management, encryption/TLS, observability, vulnerability management, and software supply-chain security.
Experience supporting federal or regulated environments and familiarity with FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, ATO, and continuous monitoring.
Preferred certifications include AWS, CISSP/Security+, CKA/CKS, Terraform, Python, or comparable DevSecOps credentials.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and standard office equipment
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding)
Job ID EB-1171933654 / Posted 9 Hours ago
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Albuquerque, NM
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