Appian DevSecOps Lead — Secure CI/CD Champion

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

paid time off

paid parental leave

life and disability insurance

flexible spending accounts

commuter benefits

tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Lead DevSecOps Appian Engineer with a Top Secret clearance to support a U.S. Army program in the DC metro area.

You will design and operate the DevSecOps pipeline across development through production, govern Appian deployments, and ensure artifact integrity with security scoring and reporting. This contingent opening emphasizes sustainable release practices, hands-on leadership, and collaboration with government and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Seven or more years of software engineering or DevSecOps experience, including leadership of CI/CD implementation for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, artifact repositories, code-quality tools, security scanning, automated testing, and controlled deployment.
• Experience packaging, deploying, and troubleshooting Appian applications or comparable low-code platforms.
• U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the work at start of performance.
• Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records.
• Ability to protect CUI and classified information when assigned.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the DevSecOps pipeline across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Implement artifact-specific controls for Appian packages, scripts, conventional code, containers, database changes, and documentation.
• Configure GitLab branching, merge controls, runners, approvals, pipeline definitions, and protected release workflows.
• Integrate Nexus, SonarQube, approved security scanners, SBOM generation, test tools, and evidence repositories into release gates.
• Automate package inspection, configuration validation, environment promotion, deployment verification, rollback, and forward recovery.
• Maintain build-once/promote-controlled-artifact practices and traceability from approved backlog item through production release.
• Coordinate separate IL-5 and IL-6 pipeline configurations, credentials, repositories, test data, approvals, and evidence streams.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and application deployment issues with Appian, configuration, test, security, database, and platform teams.
• Publish pipeline health, deployment frequency, failure rate, recovery, test, and security metrics for Government review.
• Coach development teams on secure coding, package design, automated testing, and release discipline.

Skills

Technical leadership

CI/CD expertise

Secure coding

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Info Systems

Appian developer certification

GitLab/DevSecOps certifications

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Artifact repositories

Code-quality tools

Security scanning tools

SBOM generation

Nexus

SonarQube

Job description

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Lead DevSecOps Appian Engineer with a Top Secret clearance to support a U.S. Army program in the DC metro area.

You will design and operate the DevSecOps pipeline across development through production, govern Appian deployments, and ensure artifact integrity with security scoring and reporting. This contingent opening emphasizes sustainable release practices, hands-on leadership, and collaboration with government and