Senior Data & DevSecOps Engineer

Overview

Nakupuna Federal, as part of the NFB Management Consultants (Joint Venture), is seeking a Data Integration, Security & DevSecOps Engineer to design, secure, and automate the pipelines, connectors, and workflows that drive the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) federated data ecosystem. This role combines data engineering, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps expertise to ensure that all solutions are continuously tested, validated, and compliant with DoD and healthcare security standards. The Engineer will play a critical role in advancing DHA’s mission to safeguard military healthcare data, enable interoperability, and support operational readiness. By embedding Zero Trust principles and DevSecOps practices into DHA’s enterprise data modernization effort, the Engineer will ensure solutions are secure, resilient, and high quality.

As part of the NFB JV team, this position will support all ten program objectives, including :

• 1–2 : Contribute secure harvesting and automation to support inventory and metadata management.
• 3–5 : Enforce automated governance and lifecycle policies in data pipelines.
• 6–7 : Conduct UAT support, automate QA checks, and run stress / performance tests.
• 8–9 : Develop reusable components and validate AI / ML pipeline readiness with automated compliance.
• 10 : Deliver transition playbooks, automation scripts, and sustainment knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

Additional Internal Corporate Duties :

Qualifications

Education and Experience :

Desired Qualifications :

Certifications (Required) : Security+ CE

Certifications (Preferred) : CISSP, SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP), AWS / Azure / GCP Architect, or equivalent DevSecOps / cloud credential.

Clearance Requirements :

Travel Requirements : Ability to travel up to 10% of the time to DHA HQ, stakeholder sites, or partner facilities across CONUS.

Work Location : Hybrid work environment at Nakupuna Federal offices (Arlington, VA), DHA HQ (Falls Church, VA), and remote work as approved. Core work hours are 8 : 00 AM to 5 : 00 PM, Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays or when the Government facility is closed.

Physical Requirements :   The ideal candidate must at a minimum be able to meet the following physical requirements of the job  with or without a reasonable accommodation :