The Role
Serve as a senior DevSecOps architect for USCG Software Yard: design and automate secure CI/CD and provisioning pipelines, build and maintain MBSE domain architectures, integrate Zero Trust and DISA STIGs, formalize technical standards, provide architectural guidance, map service capabilities, and recommend emerging technologies.
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GCyber is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Architect/Engineer to serve as a subject matter expert for a critical program supporting the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Software Yard – ASE – Architecture and Modeling Branch. The DevSecOps Architect will be responsible for establishing, sustaining, and automating the foundational technical baseline and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) domain architectures throughout the solution lifecycle.
In this role you will serve as a technical subject matter expert, providing the architectural context that guides all software development, delivery, and sustainment activities, ensuring all platforms and applications are built on a consistent, secure, and automated foundation.
This position is located in Kearneysville, WV, and will be a hybrid position (2-3 days/week onsite).
As the Senior DevSecOps Architect/Engineer, you will:
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
Preferred Skills & Experience
In this role you will serve as a technical subject matter expert, providing the architectural context that guides all software development, delivery, and sustainment activities, ensuring all platforms and applications are built on a consistent, secure, and automated foundation.
This position is located in Kearneysville, WV, and will be a hybrid position (2-3 days/week onsite).
As the Senior DevSecOps Architect/Engineer, you will:
- Design, deploy, and manage continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and automated provisioning pipelines built on secure architecture models.
- Construct and maintain actionable MBSE domain architectures and integrated digital models to establish a definitive technical baseline.
- Integrate Zero Trust principles and cybersecurity requirements directly into the foundational design of all platform and domain architectures.
- Formalize technical standards and interoperability standards, ensuring full synchronization with overarching PEO C5I enterprise strategies and policies.
- Provide architectural guidance and reference models to development, integration, and product teams to ensure engineering remains traceable.
- Map and document complex service capabilities, architectural dependencies, and automated workflows across multiple technology domains.
- Drive the continuous evolution of the Software Yard's baseline by monitoring, evaluating, and recommending emerging technologies.
- Ensure compliance with federal security standards, government baselines, and DISA STIGs through automated security gating and vulnerability remediation.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- Active DoD Secret Clearance
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security).
- 10+ years of experience, prior experience supporting USCG of DHS preferred
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining secure DevSecOps pipelines and automated software delivery frameworks.
- Proven experience creating and maintaining MBSE domain architectures, integrated digital models, or enterprise-level architecture blueprints.
- Comprehensive operational understanding of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles and integrating cybersecurity controls into foundational designs.
- Strong experience establishing engineering frameworks, technical standards, and software traceability practices across automated lifecycles.
- Proficiency in automating infrastructure, configuration management, and deployment gating within complex, multi-domain environments.
- Strong foundational understanding of diverse IT domains including enterprise virtualization, software engineering, cloud architecture, and network boundaries.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with PEO C5I enterprise strategies, architectural policies, and command structures.
- Relevant professional certifications highly preferred (e.g., DevSecOps certifications, AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect, or INCOSE ASEP/CSEP).
- Understanding containerization and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) paired with automated vulnerability scanning tools.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, software-defined infrastructure, and secure hybrid-cloud environments.
Skills Required
- Active DoD Secret Clearance
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security)
- 10+ years of experience
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining secure DevSecOps pipelines and automated software delivery frameworks
- Proven experience creating and maintaining MBSE domain architectures or integrated digital models
- Comprehensive operational understanding of Zero Trust Architecture principles
- Experience establishing engineering frameworks, technical standards, and software traceability practices
- Proficiency in automating infrastructure, configuration management, and deployment gating within complex environments
- Strong foundational understanding of enterprise virtualization, software engineering, cloud architecture, and network boundaries
- Ensure compliance with federal security standards, government baselines, and DISA STIGs through automated security gating and vulnerability remediation
- Familiarity with PEO C5I enterprise strategies, architectural policies, and command structures
- Relevant professional certifications (DevSecOps certs, AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect, INCOSE ASEP/CSEP)
- Understanding containerization and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) and automated vulnerability scanning tools
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, software-defined infrastructure, and secure hybrid-cloud environments
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The Company
What We Do
GCyber was founded to create innovative information technology solutions for the federal, state, and commercial markets. GCyber engineers have provided professional services supporting the information technology industry for over 15 years. Along with our engineering staff, we have relationships with partners, vendors, and analysts who have specialized expertise in the federal market. GCyber’s broad experience, focus toward execution with measurable results, and commitment to innovation provide responsive and long-lasting solutions to our customers. It is the mission of GCyber to always remain focused on our customer’s goals and improving their existing landscape. Our company accomplishes this by focusing on opportunities for innovation, while remaining mindful of industry successes and failures in the deployment of technologies. If your road map needs increasingly innovative solutions, GCyber can help you get there.
