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DevSecOps Engineer

Virtual Service Operations
USA, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Jul 2026
💰 $145,000/yr($80,000/yr$145,000/yr)

About the role

Description

Are you looking to advance your IT career in being a DevSecOps Engineer? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!


Opportunity:  


The DevSecOps Engineer is a hands-on practitioner responsible for building, automating, and sustaining the delivery infrastructure that enables mission-critical software to move fast without compromising compliance. You will actively build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, harden and manage Kubernetes environments, automate security compliance, and leverage AI as a force multiplier across the entire delivery lifecycle. When team capacity demands it, you will contribute directly to feature development — bringing a security-first perspective to application code.

Primary Responsibilities: 

  • Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines that carry code from development through security scanning, compliance validation, and deployment into Navy and DoD environments
  • Build and maintain hardened Kubernetes environments aligned to DISA STIG requirements across cloud and restricted network deployment contexts
  •  Automate security artifact generation including SBOM production, CVE scanning, and continuous compliance validation
  • Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps practices, and controls-as-code across the team
  • Leverage AI tooling to accelerate pipeline development, vulnerability triage, compliance remediation, and operational documentation
  • Partner closely with software engineers, systems engineers, and ISSE's to embed security and compliance requirements from the start of development
  • Maintain and evolve deployment infrastructure across multiple secure environments, including cloud and air-gapped or intermittently connected contexts
  • Support ATO processes through automated evidence generation, documentation as code, and direct collaboration with the security team
  • Establish and promote standards for pipeline design, container security, secrets management, and deployment consistency
  • Contribute to feature development when team capacity requires, applying security-first development practices to application code
  • Maintain operational documentation including runbooks, deployment guides, and architecture diagrams as version-controlled artifacts 


Requirements
  • BS degree and 4+ years of professional DevSecOps or DevOps engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI; experience with additional pipeline tools a plus
  • Experience with Kubernetes administration and hardening in DoD or compliance-driven environments — RKE2 or K3S experience strongly preferred
  • Experience implementing DISA STIG compliance in containerized and Linux environments (RHEL or Rocky Linux)
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling, particularly Terraform
  • Experience with Helm chart authoring and Kubernetes deployment management
  • Experience with automated security scanning, SBOM generation, and CVE triage and remediation
  • Scripting proficiency in Python or Bash for pipeline and operational automation
  • Demonstrated use of AI tooling to accelerate engineering workflows
  • Background contributing to application feature development alongside infrastructure work
  • Ability to operate independently and manage workload across competing priorities in a small, fast-moving team 
  • Must possess and maintain an active Secret security clearance or above
  • Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. citizenship status.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience operating in air-gapped or disconnected network environments
  • Experience supporting ATO through automation, documentation, and technical leadership
  • Active Security+ certification or equivalent IAT Level II certification
  • Experience with secrets management tooling such as Vault, Sealed Secrets, or SOPS
  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or willingness to obtain upon onboarding
  • Experience applying “as code” approaches beyond infrastructure (e.g., configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, workflows-as-code, documentation-as-code) 


What is Important to Us:

  • You are an excellent communicator in writing and speaking.
  • You have the ability to work independently but also value teamwork.
  • Your problem-solving skills are excellent.
  • You are looking for a job where performance appraisals occur regularly, and you look forward to advancing your career.
  • You seek a community of virtue-centered

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