AWS DevSecOps Engineer: Secure CI/CD & Automation

540; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Federal holidays off

Health insurance

FSA

401k with employer match

Life insurance

Disability

Annual social events

Job summary

540 is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support a mission-critical platform enabling secure development, deployment, and operation of modern software for the Department of War. The role emphasizes automating delivery, integrating security throughout the SDLC, and stabilizing deployments across AWS with Azure support.

You will collaborate with software engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams to resolve pipeline issues and automate repeatable processes, ensuring secure, reliable software

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience supporting AWS environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Experience integrating automated security and code-quality tools into CI/CD workflows.
• Knowledge of Git-based source control, branching strategies, and release management.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and artifact-management tools such as Artifactory, Nexus, or GitLab Package Registry.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or a similar language.
• Understanding of secure software-development practices and the software development lifecycle.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Automate software builds, testing, security validation, artifact creation, and deployments.
• Support delivery and platform automation primarily in AWS, with additional support for Azure environments.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code to create secure, consistent, and repeatable environments.
• Integrate code, dependency, container, and infrastructure security scanning into automated pipelines.
• Implement automated quality and security gates to prevent vulnerable or noncompliant code from being deployed.
• Monitor pipeline health and performance, configure alerts, and troubleshoot build, integration, and deployment issues.
• Maintain source-code repositories, branching strategies, artifact management, versioning, and release processes.
• Support rolling, blue-green, and canary deployment strategies.
• Document pipeline configurations and operational procedures while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement

Skills

DevSecOps

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Docker

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible)

Security tooling

Git-based workflows

Monitoring & logging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Artifactory/Nexus/GitLab Package Registry

Job description

540 is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support a mission-critical platform enabling secure development, deployment, and operation of modern software for the Department of War. The role emphasizes automating delivery, integrating security throughout the SDLC, and stabilizing deployments across AWS with Azure support.

You will collaborate with software engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams to resolve pipeline issues and automate repeatable processes, ensuring secure, reliable software