DevSecOps Engineer Government
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Description
You will own secure code integration through build, testing, release, and deployment. You will build hardened CI/CD pipelines, integrate security controls, enforce promotion gates, automate compliance evidence, support classified deployments, and help developers remediate findings.
Responsibilities
- Own secure code integration across the software delivery lifecycle
- Support software integration and deployment on government and customer systems
- Build secure CI/CD pipelines, templates, and hardened build environments
- Integrate security scanning tools and consolidate toolchains
- Define and enforce security promotion gates and exceptions
- Troubleshoot findings and help developers remediate issues
- Automate hardening, security validation, and compliance evidence collection
- Build AWS GovCloud preventive and detective controls
- Implement software supply-chain protections
- Support classified and air-gapped software promotion
- Lead threat modeling and security design reviews
- Map technical controls to government security requirements
- Establish secure development guidance and repeatable patterns
- Participate in the security on-call rotation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Minimum 5 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or security engineering experience
- DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II Security+ certification
- Python, Bash, Go, or similar scripting language
- GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent CI/CD platform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- AWS
- Config
- Security Hub
- IAM
- KMS
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- EventBridge
- OPA
- Rego
- cfn-guard
- Cedar
- NIST 800-53
- NIST 800-171
- DISA STIG
- RMF
- DFARS
- CMMC
- Audit evidence
- Security tooling integration
- U.S. citizenship
- DoD security clearance
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off