Continuous Integration​/Continuous Deployment; CI​/CD Subject Matter Expert

Type of Requisition

Regular

None

None

MBI (T2)

Cyber and IT Risk Management

• Skills
  :
  Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, Design, Dev Ops, Security Compliance
• Certifications
  :
  None
• Experience
  : 10+ years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required
  :
  No

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Subject Matter Expert

The CI/CD Subject Matter Expert (SME) is the technical authority for building and operating secure, reliable, and efficient delivery pipelines across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments. In this role, the CI/CD Subject Matter Expert owns the last mile to production. You will design, implement, and operate continuous deployment practices that move changes safely and automatically from “approved” to “live”, with policy, security, and evidence built in.

Your responsibilities include release orchestration, progressive delivery (blue/green, canary, feature flags), automated rollback, post‑deployment verification against SLOs, and end‑to‑end traceability in ITSM. You’ll make deployments predictable for executives, painless for engineers, invisible to end users, and auditable for compliance. You will align day‑to‑day practices to federal frameworks (NIST RMF/CSF, Zero Trust/TIC 3.0, SSDF) and sustain ATO requirements through automation.

Timeline
:
This is a contingent posting, expected to start in August, 2026

You will replace legacy deployment practices with gated, observable, and reversible deployments that run without drama. By baking risk controls into the pipeline, pre‑prod contract tests, change approvals as code, traffic shaping, health checks, and error‑budget‑aware promotion, you will cut change failure, shrink MTTR, and raise deployment frequency without increasing incidents. You’ll standardize a “paved road” to production, so teams spend their time building features, not handcrafting releases;

leadership sees accurate, real‑time status and rollback readiness; auditors see consistent records and evidence generated automatically with every deploy.

• Education
  :
  Bachelor's Degree. In lieu of a degree, an additional four years of related experience required
• Experience
  :
  • 10+ years in Dev Ops/Platform Engineering with hands‑on ownership of production deployments at enterprise scale; 3+ years in regulated or federal environments (VA/DoD/DHS/HHS or highly regulated industry).
  • Demonstrated results improving DORA metrics (deployment frequency ↑, lead time ↓, change failure rate ≤5–10%, MTTR ↓20–40%) using progressive delivery and automated rollback.
  • Demonstrated results improving delivery KPIs (e.g., lead time ↓30–50%, change failure rate ≤5–10%, MTTR ↓20–40%) while sustaining ATO/Con Mon obligations.
  • Proven implementation of feature‑flag‑driven releases, blue/green and canary strategies, and zero‑downtime database changes (online migrations, backward‑compatible schemas).
  • Experience integrating deployments with ITSM (automated change models/approvals, deployment records, back‑out plans) and generating audit‑ready evidence for RMF/Con Mon.
  • Track record operating in multi‑vendor/SIAM environments with cross‑team release trains and joint incident “swarming.”
• Technical skills
  :
  • Release Orchestration & Progressive Delivery:
    Deep experience with tools/patterns for blue/green, canary, and traffic shaping (e.g., gateways, service mesh, rollout controllers); automated promotion based on SLOs, synthetic checks, and real‑user signals; automatic rollback on guardrail breach.
  • Feature Management:
    Design of flag strategies (kill switches, dark launches, percentage rollouts), flag lifecycle hygiene, and blast‑radius containment; governance to prevent “flag debt.”
  • Policy & Security‑as‑Code: OPA/Conftest, Sentinel, Checkov, Cloud Custodian; required tags/encryption, CIS/STIG baselines; pre‑merge and pre‑deploy enforcement.
  • Deployment Automation:
    Git Ops/desired‑state reconciliation (e.g., Argo CD/Flux) for infra and apps; immutable artifacts; environment drift detection and auto‑reconcile; promotion…