Senior DevSecOps Engineer

DescriptionKforce has a client that is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer in Lenexa, KS.Summary:We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help advance DevOps capabilities across cloud engineering, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), automation, and AI-enabled operations. This is a senior individual contributor role that will serve as a technical escalation point while building scalable, secure, and repeatable solutions across production and non-production environments.Key Responsibilities:* Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines supporting application, infrastructure, database, and configuration deployments* Build Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Python, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies* Engineer scalable, secure cloud solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and backup/recovery* Develop reusable platform engineering templates, self-service workflows, deployment patterns, and shared tooling* Apply SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and toil reduction* Improve observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry* Automate environment provisioning, patching, configuration, release readiness, service accounts, and related operational processes* Embed security and compliance into pipelines through secrets management, IAM, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement* Support Docker, Kubernetes, containerization, orchestration, artifact management, and image scanning* Leverage AI-enabled engineering/operations tools to improve troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and developer productivity* Partner across development, infrastructure, database, security, and operations teams* Mentor engineers and lead troubleshooting of complex deployment, infrastructure, performance, and reliability issuesRequirements* Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience* 5-7 years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure automation, software delivery, or related roles* Strong knowledge of modern DevOps, Agile delivery, release management, infrastructure automation, and operational support* Hands-on experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools* Experience scripting and automating with PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML, and/or JSON* Strong cloud experience, preferably Microsoft Azure, across compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and cost optimization* Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar* Understanding of platform engineering, reusable templates, self-service workflows, internal developer platforms, and developer experience* Knowledge of SRE practices, including observability, incident response, root cause analysis, reliability targets, capacity planning, and toil reduction* Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or LogicMonitor* Working knowledge of containers, orchestration, cloud-native applications, and artifact management* Understanding of DevSecOps, including secrets management, IAM, vulnerability scanning, secure pipelines, and compliance automation* Experience supporting enterprise/business-critical applications and cloud or hybrid environments* Ability to mentor engineers, lead technical improvements, and influence engineering standards without direct people management* Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills* Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, SRE, Agile, or DevOps certifications are a plusJob TypeContractCompensation45 - $50