ICF
ICF
ICF is a global consulting and technology services company working with government and commercial clients on complex challenges across Federal IT modernization, energy and utilities, public health, climate resilience, disaster management, and transportation. Its teams combine data and analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and sector expertise to develop and deliver practical solutions. ICF also focuses on corporate citizenship and sustainability, including efforts that support social programs, community development, and a lower-emissions future. The company operates internationally, with a notable European presence in Belgium, Spain, and the UK.

Lead DevOps Engineer at ICF (Remote in Virginia)

Lead DevOps Engineer responsible for AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps platforms at ICF. Build secure, observable, resilient infrastructure across enterprise environments.

Description

  • Own the architecture and daily operations of multi-account AWS environments spanning development, QA, staging, and production
  • Create and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Terragrunt environment configurations
  • Administer Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Kubernetes resources with Helm, Argo CD, and ApplicationSets
  • Maintain GitOps controllers and automate Kubernetes infrastructure operations
  • Develop GitHub Actions workflows covering AWS OIDC authentication, self-hosted runners, container-image pipelines, environment promotion, approvals, and rollbacks
  • Operate Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS, including backups, recovery, monitoring, and AWS DMS migration workflows
  • Apply security and audit controls through AWS security services and centralized logging
  • Maintain observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and service-level objectives
  • Collaborate with developers to review and troubleshoot Java and Spring Boot services
  • Embed application and software supply-chain security into delivery pipelines
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster-recovery exercises, infrastructure upgrades, cost optimization, architecture documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
  • At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability
  • At least 5 years operating production workloads on AWS
  • At least 5 years using Terraform and infrastructure as code
  • At least 4 years administering production Kubernetes environments, including Amazon EKS, Helm, ingress, RBAC, secrets, upgrades, observability, and GitOps delivery with Argo CD or a comparable platform
  • At least 3 years building and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or a comparable platform
  • Strong Linux, scripting, AWS networking, IAM, troubleshooting, and incident-response capabilities
  • US citizenship or permanent residency required under contract terms
  • Experience with Terragrunt, EKS Auto Mode, AWS Pod Identity, Argo CD ApplicationSets, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, or Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator
  • Experience operating Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS and supporting AWS DMS, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and database performance monitoring
  • Experience with CloudFront, Route 53, ACM, Cognito, SQS, SNS, SES, Secrets Manager, S3, ECR, and cross-account AWS access patterns
  • Experience delivering observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging, alerting, and service-level objectives
  • Experience implementing SAST with SonarQube, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, SBOMs, and policy-based release gates
  • Hands-on experience reviewing and troubleshooting Java and Spring Boot applications, including REST or GraphQL APIs, Maven, JVM diagnostics, database connection pools, and containerized deployments

Benefits

  • ICF is an equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and people with sincerely held religious beliefs
  • Confidential support is available for accommodation requests
  • Benefit offerings are referenced through the Transparency in Coverage Act

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