DevSecOps & SRE Technical Director

Who we are... Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today. About The Role Latitude IT Solutions is seeking a DevSecOps & SRE Technical Director to own the continuous delivery, site reliability, and security automation backbone of a large-scale VA health IT platform. You lead CI/CD pipelines, blue/green and canary deployments, Terraform IaC, policy-as-code guardrails, and the automated compliance controls that enable safe, high-velocity delivery across multiple EKS environments. What You'll Do Own and operate CI/CD pipelines and blue/green/canary deployment frameworks across Production, Staging, and Sandbox EKS clustersBuild and enforce policy-as-code guardrails: automated compliance checks against NIST 800-53, TRM, and VA-specific controls before production deploymentManage Terraform IaC for all VAEC infrastructure provisioning; ensure all changes are code-reviewed and version-controlledLead SRE functions: define SLIs, track SLOs against PWS SLA tiers, manage error budgets, and own reliability reviewsOperate the Istio service mesh: traffic management, mTLS enforcement, and sidecar lifecycle across all EKS namespacesLead SAST, DAST, container scanning, and Fortify remediation — maintaining ATO with zero unmitigated critical CVEsMaintain the onboarding pipeline: IaC-driven runbook bringing new engineers to readiness within contractual timeframesSupport Optional Task surge efforts for DevSecOps/SRE as defined in the Performance Work Statement What You Bring 8+ years of DevSecOps or SRE experience in federal cloud environmentsDeep hands-on Kubernetes/EKS at scale with multi-namespace production operationsExpert-level Terraform/IaC in AWS GovCloudBlue/green and canary deployment engineering in production federal environmentsIstio service mesh, mTLS, and service-to-service security in KubernetesNIST 800-53, VA RMF, and ATO-supporting tooling (SAST, DAST, Fortify, Nessus)Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials Preferred AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certificationCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)HashiCorp Vault Associate certificationVA TASPL / VIP Guide 4.0 experienceMSK/Kafka or VistA integration experience Clearance... Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information Citizenship... Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements Employee Benefits... Medical, Vision, DentalPaid Vacation & Sick TimePaid Federal Holidays401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company MatchingEmployer Paid Life InsuranceContinued Education AssistanceEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Commuter Benefits ProgramHealth Savings Account (HSA) We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.