DevSecOps Software Developer Sr Principal

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

CI/CD, DevOps, Software Factory

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Job Description Summary

The DevSecOps Software Developer SME will design, build, troubleshoot, and maintain automation and integration capabilities for mission-focused cloud and software delivery environments. The engineer will reduce manual work, improve repeatability, support secure delivery, and document solutions.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

• Develop automation that improves consistency, reliability, and delivery speed.

• Support secure software delivery, operational sustainment, and compliance-driven engineering activities.

• Help convert engineering needs into practical scripts, tools, pipelines, documentation, and repeatable processes.

• Provide guidance to less experienced engineers and support team execution under the Cloud and Software Factory leads.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply expert knowledge across the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, debugging, release, and sustainment.

• Design and maintain automation for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, operational support tasks, and integration workflows.

• Develop scripts, tools, services, and process improvements using common scripting, programming, automation, and cloud technologies.

• Analyze user and business needs, translate them into technical designs, and produce diagrams, workflows, and implementation plans.

• Create and maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and evidence artifacts.

• Support secure configuration management, vulnerability remediation, scan integration, and compliance support activities.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, operating system, infrastructure, cloud, network, identity, and CI/CD boundaries.

• May coach and provide guidance to less experienced professionals; may serve as a task lead.

• Perform additional duties as assigned in support of program delivery and operational sustainment.

What You Will Need to Succeed

• Ability to work independently under limited supervision and follow through on assigned engineering work.

• Practical automation experience with the judgment to build supportable, maintainable solutions.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and comfort working through incomplete requirements or logs.

• Ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, and status clearly to engineers and non-engineers.

• Understanding of security, documentation, change control, and operational stability in a mission environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in federal, DoW, cloud, classified, or other controlled environments.

• Experience with GitLab CI/CD or comparable pipeline platforms and source-control workflows.

• Experience with cloud automation, event-driven workflows, containerized applications, and infrastructure as code.

• Cloud, DevOps, security, or infrastructure certifications relevant to the role.

Operating Environment

• Engineering team supporting cloud infrastructure, software factory services, automation, security compliance, and production operations.

• Work may include both planned engineering buildout and troubleshooting of mission-impacting issues.

• The engineer will take technical directions from the Technical Delivery Manager, Deputy TDM, or Cloud/Software Factory lead as needed to complete required tasks.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, application, and customer teams.

Required Skills: Experience with scripting or software development, CI/CD or automation tooling, cloud or infrastructure services, source control, technical troubleshooting, and documentation.

Required Certification: DoW 8570/8140 baseline certification such as Security+ CE.

Clearance: Top Secret

Required Experience: 8+ years of related software development, automation, DevOp