DevSecOps Project Lead (Sr DevSecOps Engineer)

ABOUT DEFCON AI RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems. In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI ’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions. About the Role As DevSecOps Lead you will build and operate the delivery platform for a new AI-enabled program in a government cloud environment: the CI/CD pipeline, the infrastructure it runs on, the security controls built into it, and the artifacts that pipeline produces to support authorization. The work spans modern commercial DevOps practice and the realities of DoW deployment at IL-5, and requires sound decisions across government networks, cloud environments, and container strategy. This is a lead role that stays hands on keyboard. You will make the architecture calls and you will also build them. Security is engineered in from the first week rather than added at the end: the pipeline enforces hardened baselines, runs the scans, and generates control evidence on every commit. As the program ramps you will direct a small group of platform, cloud, and cyber engineers, and you will be the engineering counterpart to the customer's security and accreditation staff. We need someone who can move immediately. An early deliverable puts a working platform into the government environment on a fixed date, and cloud accounts, network access, credentials, and approved service and image lists all arrive on the government's timeline rather than ours. This is a fully remote role with occasional travel (up to 25%) to DEFCON AI HQ, customer sites, and vendor facilities as required. Key Responsibilities First Deliverable: Platform Into the Government Environment Own the initial platform deployment into the government IL-5 environme