About the role
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 clusters
Build and enforce policy-as-code guardrails: automated compliance checks against NIST 800-53, TRM, and VA-specific controls before production deployment
Manage Terraform IaC for all VAEC infrastructure provisioning; ensure all changes are code-reviewed and version-controlled
Lead SRE functions: define SLIs, track SLOs against PWS SLA tiers, manage error budgets, and own reliability reviews
Operate the Istio service mesh: traffic management, mTLS enforcement, and sidecar lifecycle across all EKS namespaces
Lead SAST, DAST, container scanning, and Fortify remediation — maintaining ATO with zero unmitigated critical CVEs
Maintain the onboarding pipeline: IaC-driven runbook bringing new engineers to readiness within contractual timeframes
Support 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 environments
Deep hands-on Kubernetes/EKS at scale with multi-namespace production operations
Expert-level Terraform/IaC in AWS GovCloud
Blue/green and canary deployment engineering in production federal environments
Istio service mesh, mTLS, and service-to-service security in Kubernetes
NIST 800-53, VA RMF, and ATO-supporting tooling (SAST, DAST, Fortify, Nessus)
Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials
Preferred
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
HashiCorp Vault Associate certification
VA TASPL / VIP Guide 4.0 experience
MSK/Kafka or VistA integration experience