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Rancher Government Solutions · 2 months ago

Sr. DevSecOps Engineer

Reston, VA, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) is focused on addressing the security and operational needs of the U.S. Government and military in application modernization and container management. As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will provide expert-level implementation and architectural guidance for Rancher's products within the Federal Government, ensuring successful deployment of complex container and Kubernetes initiatives.

Software

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Act as a trusted technical leader and hands-on keyboard engineer for government agency customers, focusing on building, deploying, and maintaining Rancher-based Kubernetes and Container solutions

Provide expert-level DevOps technical engineering support, architecture design, and troubleshooting assistance across the entire Rancher product portfolio and complimentary open-source technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, CI/CD tools)

Develop technical solutions, proof-of-concepts, and reference architectures to help solve unique and complex customer problems, ensuring solutions meet stringent government security requirements

Maintain an expert-level understanding of the Rancher Labs portfolio and adjacent technologies like Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling

Collaborate directly with customers and partners to implement, integrate, and operationalize solutions based on Rancher, ensuring alignment with their long-term IT infrastructure and application development objectives

Act as an advocate for our customers by understanding their feature requests, use cases, and strategic goals, and communicating this critical feedback to internal Product Management and Engineering teams

Demonstrate the technical impact and value of Rancher solutions for users through compelling presentations, deep dives, and hands-on workshops

Develop and maintain strong, long-term technical relationships with key customer stakeholders and partners within strategic accounts

Act as a public technical representative of RGS by creating technical white papers, blog posts, and videos, and by speaking at industry events, conferences, and seminars to educate and engage the broader community

Contribute to the development of technical documentation, best practices, and knowledge sharing to support the wider RGS Services organization

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

KubernetesDevOpsCI/CDContainer technologyAutomation softwareTechnical content creationCommunication skillsProblem-solving mindset

Required

Requires TS//SCI Clearance w/ Full Scope Poly (Mandatory)

5+ years of experience working as a field engineer, professional services consultant, or hands-on DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineer focused on infrastructure and container technology

Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and orchestration (Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker) for both operations, development, and security

Extensive experience with DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD), and automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)

Excellent communication, consulting, and presentation skills, with proven ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse, cleared end-users both in-person and virtually

Proven experience creating technical content (white papers, blog posts) or presenting at technical forums/events

Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with a proactive, self-motivated, and results-oriented mindset focused on customer success

Company

Rancher Government Solutions

Rancher Government Solutions is specifically designed to address the unique security and operational needs of the US Government and military as it relates to application modernization, containers and Kubernetes.

Founded in 2019

Reston, Virginia, USA

51-200 employees