About ICA, Inc.
International Consulting Associates, Inc. is a rapidly growing company, located in the D.C./Metro area. We were founded in 2009 to assist government clients with evaluating and achieving their objectives. We have become a trusted advisor helping our clients by offering cutting-edge innovation and solutions to complex projects. Our small company has grown significantly, and we're overjoyed at the opportunity to expand yet again!
We are results-focused and have a proven track record supporting federal agencies and large government services primes in three main areas: Research and Data Analysis, Advanced-Data Science, and Strategic Services. We currently support multiple analytics and research programs across HHS.
At ICA, we believe our success starts with our people. We foster a collaborative "one team" environment where work-life balance isn't just talked about – it's prioritized. We're building dynamic, highly skilled teams in a welcoming and supportive atmosphere. If you're passionate about using your technical expertise to make a difference, we want to talk to you.
We are looking for a
DevOps / DevSecOps Engineer to join our growing team.
About The Role
We're seeking an experienced DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer to manage and optimize our AWS infrastructure while ensuring robust security and compliance standards. You'll maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and observability systems, and support regulatory compliance requirements. This role offers the opportunity to work with modern infrastructure tools and contribute to mission-critical systems in a collaborative, efficient environment.
Your expertise will contribute to developing a working prototype or minimum viable product (MVP) designed to pilot various prioritized applications for the FDA. Utilizing an Agile development framework, you will help develop this initial prototype before scaling it into a fully productionized tool ready for enterprise-wide deployment.
About You
You are inquisitive by nature, detail oriented, creative, patient, and a results-focused problem solver who enjoys collaboration with your team. You use critical reasoning, are open-minded and enjoy the steps involved when confronted with a complex challenge. You have a high standard of accountability and can influence others by creating effective presentations that communicate complex analytics to non-technical senior management and executives. You bring experience communicating with stakeholders and project team(s) effectively and timely both verbally and in writing. You are comfortable coordinating day-to-day project activities and client contact.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years in DevOps, DevSecOps, or SRE roles
- Strong AWS experience, especially ECS and Terraform
- Experience implementing or improving monitoring systems and incident workflows
- Comfort with scripting (Python, Bash) for automation and operational tooling
- Familiarity with Postgres in production
- Security Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance is required.
Additional Preferred Skills
- Exposure to Ansible or other config mgmt tools
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or EKS (or desire to grow into it)
- Exposure to AI/ML infra (e.g., GPU workloads, model deployment)
Key Responsibilities
- Infrastructure: Own and evolve our AWS infra (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, S3, IAM, VPC)
- CI/CD & IaC: Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and Infra-as-Code (Terraform)
- Monitoring & Observability: Set up alerting, log aggregation, and performance dashboards (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry)
- Security & Compliance: Implement secure-by-default practices; support SOC 2 / HIPAA readiness
- Automation: Write Python/Bash scripts for backups, monitoring, deployment hooks, etc.
- Database Ops: Database Ops Assist with Postgres tuning, access control, and migrations
- Future-Proofing: Lay groundwork for container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes) if/when we scale beyond ECS
Benefits
We invest in our team members so you can live your best life professionally and personally, offering a competitive salary and benefits
- Health Insurance -100% employer-paid premiums – ICA covers the full cost of one of three offered medical plans
- Dental Insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Spending Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Life and Disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Leave and Holidays)
- Education and Professional Development Assistance
- Remote work from anywhere within the continental United States
Location and Telework
This is a remote position. Candidates must be willing to travel to the office, in Arlington, VA, for the occasional team/client meetings. Five percent travel can be expected. Flexibility is expected of the employee to be available for client/team meetings if the employee lives outside the Eastern Time Zone.
Additional Information
ICA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability status, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
