Sr. DevSecOps Engineer - Onsite (MacDill AFB)

Company Overview:

Let’s be real, AI isn’t magic; Legion was built to move beyond AI hype—delivering secure, reliable systems that work alongside the people tackling the world’s most critical challenges.

Born from a Department of Defense partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems, unlocking data, accelerating human workflows, and strengthening mission-critical systems. We don’t replace workflows—we optimize them, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability inside the platforms our partners already use.

With world-class collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we’re building intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability and drives impact at the edge and across a range of enterprises.

We’re looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping the future of AI that’s secure, grounded, and built to work.

Job Description:

This position requires a US Department of Defense or Intelligence TS/SCI clearance.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevSecOps Engineer with extensive experience in Kubernetes, deployment automation (e.g., GitOps, Terraform, Helm, or similar tools), environment agnostic deployment, system integration, and US Federal Government Risk Management Frameworks. The ideal candidate will be responsible for deploying our product to government customer environments, managing integrations with third-party systems, and ensuring our security posture meets requirements while maintaining the high availability, performance, and security of our services. You will work closely with other Mission Engineering Team members and the Legion Intelligence Platform DevOps and Engineering teams to improve product deployment efficiency and configurability.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy the Legion Intelligence product in US government compute environments using Flux, Terraform, Kubernetes/Docker, and related technologies.
• Develop automation scripts for provisioning, monitoring, backing up, patching, and deploying the Legion product and underlying services.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery capabilities for deployed applications.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure optimal performance and uptime.
• Integrate the Legion product with external authentication and authorization systems in government production environments.
• Integrate the Legion product with third-party mission data systems in production environments (MS SharePoint, Palantir Foundry, etc.)
• Collaborate with product DevOps Engineers to establish best practices and company-wide guidelines.
• Work closely with product software engineering teams to integrate their project deliverables into customer production cloud and on-premises environments.
• Leverage system and application health monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Vector) to maintain application health, diagnose problems, and facilitate remediation.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues and work with customers, partners, and internal development teams to identify root causes and resolve them.
• Prepare packages required for Authorization to Operate (ATO), Certification to Field (CTF), and other security requirements presented by US Government Risk Management Frameworks (RMF).
• Enforce compliance with security best practices and policies.
• Stay current with new DevSecOps technologies and recommend innovative solutions that increase value and improve efficiency.
• MUST be on-site at MacDill AFB.

Qualifications:

• An active US Department of Defense or Intelligence TS/SCI clearance.
• A BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification.
• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps or DevSecOps Engineer, or equivalent software-engineering role.
• 2+ years of experience deploying software and/or managing software deployments in US Government classified networks.
• Extensive experience deploying and managing software in AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or Oracle Cloud environments, as well as on-premises data centers.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Experience delivering software to multiple environments using GitOps or similar automation and configuration management technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc, and a willingness to learn and adopt new ones.
• Experience deploying rapidly evolving software and maintaining a flexible deployment paradigm to enable rapid iteration.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with clients, partner vendors, end users, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience writing and leveraging infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
• Working knowledge of databases, both SQL and NoSQL, and related data structures. 
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Bash, Python, TypeScript).
• Working familiarity with system and application health monitoring tools, e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/Vector or similar
• Experience building deployment systems for rapidly developing and changing applications.
• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the deployment of AI software using Kubernetes, including GPU resource management.
• Experience in startup environments.

Why Join Us: As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role on our team, and your expertise will be pivotal in helping us reach our company goals. You will be given the opportunity to make a significant impact on our systems while working in an innovative and fast-paced environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages and encourage professional growth and development. Join us on our exciting journey to push the boundaries of technology and drive transformative change in the AI and ML industry.

Note: At Legion Intelligence, we are dedicated to harnessing the power of AI and ML. If you're interested in learning more about our innovative projects and the impact of AI in transforming industries, check out our blog post here. This will give you an insight into the fascinating world of AI and the possibilities it holds for the future.