Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.
The Work
At ICF our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.
Join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow, the team is focused on migrating legacy workloads, streamlining onboarding and support, expanding platform capabilities, and helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale.
The DevSecOps Lead provides technical leadership and day-to-day delivery oversight for platform engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), infrastructure provisioning, release execution, and core platform operations. This role owns the implementation of approved cloud architecture and security patterns, coordinates platform activities across engineers and administrators, and ensures infrastructure changes are repeatable, auditable, testable, and supportable. The DevSecOps Lead partners closely with the Cloud Data Architect, Security/RMF/ATO Lead, and Agile Delivery Manager to ensure platform delivery excellence, operational readiness, incident management, and successful release execution.
Job Location: Remote
If you accept this position, you should note that company security monitoring, access controls, and client requirements may apply, including restrictions on foreign locations, foreign IP addresses, and personal VPN connections where contractually required.
What You Will Do:
- Lead platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations activities.
- Oversee implementation and maintenance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platform environments.
- Direct CI/CD pipeline design, automation initiatives, release management activities, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) implementations.
- Ensure platform changes adhere to approved architecture, security, compliance, and operational standards.
- Coordinate engineering and operations teams to deliver repeatable, auditable, and testable infrastructure solutions.
- Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, performance, and operational metrics using SRE best practices.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement efforts.
- Collaborate with security, architecture, and delivery leadership to achieve release readiness and deployment objectives.
- Establish and maintain automated deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning processes.
- Support modernization initiatives involving cloud-native platforms, OpenShift environments, containerized applications, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to DevSecOps engineers, platform engineers, and administrators.
- Prepare technical status reports, operational metrics, and briefings for client and internal stakeholders.
What You Will Bring With You:
- U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
- Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., all work must be performed in the U.S. and must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience supporting cloud platform operations, DevSecOps, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related technical disciplines. Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
- Deep experience leading the implementation and operation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions utilizing Terraform, including reusable modules, infrastructure standards, policy enforcement, environment provisioning, and automated platform deployment patterns.
What We Would Like You To Bring With You:
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating Databricks environments, including workspace administration, Unity Catalog implementation, access management, platform policies, cluster governance, and automated provisioning.
- Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, and enterprise release automation frameworks.
- Experience implementing and governing cloud platform operations across Azure Government, Azure Commercial, AWS GovCloud, and hybrid-cloud architectures.
- Experience leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including observability, monitoring, incident response, operational readiness, service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), reliability engineering, and production support models.
- Experience overseeing release execution, deployment governance, rollback readiness, operational acceptance, and release evidence collection within regulated environments.
- Experience implementing platform security controls, secrets management, certificate management, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, and automated compliance validation.
- Experience supporting large-scale data, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud modernization initiatives leveraging Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, Power BI, and related technologies.
- Experience with identity and access management solutions including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, service principals, managed identities, federation, and privileged access controls.
- Experience leading platform operational processes including environment management, change control, incident management, problem management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and service continuity.
- Experience collaborating with Cloud Data Architects, Security Leads, RMF/ATO personnel, Agile Delivery Managers, SRE teams, QA teams, and Government stakeholders to ensure secure, auditable, and supportable platform operations.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, RMF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FIPS, cybersecurity governance, and Federal compliance requirements.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, mentoring technical teams, driving technical decision-making, and implementing operational best practices across large engineering organizations.
- Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments requiring scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Experience supporting Federal government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments.
- Experience working within Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and enterprise-scale delivery organizations.
Professional Skills:
- Strong leadership and team coordination skills.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and quality.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence.
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Working at ICF
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.
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At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.
However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at [email protected]. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.
Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.
The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$119,323.00 - $202,850.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Residence in the United States and authorization to work in the United States
- All work performed in the United States and residence in the U.S. for three full years of the last five years
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field
- High school diploma plus four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a bachelor's degree
- Minimum eight years of experience in cloud platform operations, DevSecOps, platform engineering, SRE, or related technical disciplines
- Master's degree may substitute for two years of relevant experience
- Experience leading DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms
- Extensive experience implementing and operating Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, including reusable modules, policy enforcement, provisioning, and automated deployment
- Experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating Databricks environments
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, and enterprise release automation frameworks
- Experience with Azure Government, Azure Commercial, AWS GovCloud, and hybrid-cloud architectures
- Experience leading SRE practices, observability, monitoring, incident response, SLOs, SLIs, reliability engineering, and production support
- Experience with release governance, rollback readiness, operational acceptance, and release evidence collection in regulated environments
- Experience implementing security controls, secrets and certificate management, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, and automated compliance validation
- Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, Power BI, and cloud modernization technologies
- Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, service principals, managed identities, federation, and privileged access controls
- Understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, RMF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FIPS, and federal compliance requirements
- Experience supporting federal government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and enterprise-scale delivery organizations
ICF Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ICF and has not been reviewed or approved by ICF.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices (UHC PPO/HDHP and Kaiser in some areas) come with employer HSA/HRA funding and wellness incentives, with dental and vision included. Mental-health access is emphasized via Modern Health, offering up to 10 therapy and 10 coaching sessions annually.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building resources include Maven support on UHC plans, $10,000 lifetime fertility/surrogacy reimbursement, and $5,000 for adoption, milk-shipping, and clinician-led programs. Caregiver and 24/7 resources are also available through the EAP.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 5% discount is broadly available and regularly highlighted in postings. This adds a straightforward path for employees to build ownership alongside salary and benefits.
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What We Do
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