DevSecOps and Release Engineer

CohesionForce, Inc; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CohesionForce, Inc. is hiring a DevSecOps and Release Engineer to design, automate, and support secure software delivery in Huntsville, AL. You will improve CI/CD, software supply-chain assurance, and release coordination across multiple services and environments.

The role emphasizes secure automation, reproducible builds, and inventorying deployment data while coordinating with multiple teams to ensure timely, compliant releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, CS, cybersecurity, IT, or equivalent with 7+ years of experience, or 5+ years with Master’s.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for multi-service software products.
• Experience with Git, Linux, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, scripting, and IaC.
• Experience integrating automated quality and security checks into release workflows.
• Experience with artifact repositories, container registries, and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reusable CI/CD pipelines, build automation, test stages, and release workflows.
• Integrate code analysis, container scanning, SBOMs, signing, and provenance into delivery pipelines.
• Manage container images, artifacts, versioning, and release records across registries.
• Automate Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment validation with GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, and IaC.
• Coordinate multi-team releases ensuring dependencies, approvals, and inputs are ready.
• Develop tests for integration, upgrade, rollback, and recovery with engineers.
• Investigate failures and implement durable fixes; maintain release procedures and recovery docs.
• Measure deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Linux

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Scripting

IaC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS/Cybersecurity/IT

Tools

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Title: DevSecOps and Release Engineer
Reference: 26-015
Job Type: Full-time
Job Status: Interviewing
Date Posted: 08-11-2026
Location: Huntsville
Duration: Permanent
Company Address: CohesionForce, Inc.
Street: 101 Quality Circle
Suite: Suite 140
City: Huntsville, AL 35806
Website: http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a DevSecOps and Release Engineer to become part of our team in Huntsville, AL. This individual will design, automate, and support secure software delivery for a multi-service enterprise platform. The engineer will improve CI/CD, software supply-chain assurance, release coordination, deployment validation, and recovery readiness across development and customer environments.

Responsbilities include:

• Design and maintain reusable CI/CD pipelines, build automation, test stages, artifact promotoin, and release workflows.
• Integrate code analysis, dependency analysis, container scanning, dynamic testing, software bills of materials, signing, and provenance into delivery pipelines.
• Manage container images, packages, deployment artifacts, versioning, and release records across private registries and access-controlled environments.
• Automate Kubernetes and OpenShift deployment validation using GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, infrastructure as code, and policy checks.
• Coordinate releases across multiple software teams and ensure dependencies, evidence, approvals, and customer inputs are ready.
• Develop integration, negative, upgrade, rollback, and recovery tests with platform and application engineers.
• Investigate pipeline, build, artifact, deployment, and environment failures and implement durable corrections.
• Maintain release procedures, deployment instructions, operational handoff material, and recovery documentation.
• Measure deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and recurring delivery effort.
• Promote secure automation, reproducible builds, peer review, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, information technology or a related discipline, or equivalent experience and combined education, with 7 years of experience, or relevant professional experience; or 5 years with a related Master’s degree.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for multi-service software products.
• Experience with Git, Linux, containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift, scripting, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience integrating automated software quality and security checks into build and release workflows.
• Experience with artifact repositories, container registries, versioning, release coordination, and deployment automation.
• Experience troubleshooting, pipeline, artifact, and deployment issues.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate release risk to technical and nontechnical personnel.
• Works well in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.
• Must be willing to work onsite in a closed/classified area.
• Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GitLab CI, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Ansible, or comperable technologies.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, software bills of materials, artifact signing, and vulnerability disposition.
• Experience with private registries and disconnected software deliver.
• Experience with policy as code, Kubernetes configuration validation, and automated compliance evidence.
• Experience with progressive delivery release trians, rollback automation, disaster recovery, or operational readiness reviews.
• Experience supporting government customers and formal software releases.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.