DevSecOps & API Automation Engineer - Hybrid DC

eTelligent Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

eTel is seeking an experienced DevOps/DevSecOps engineer to build and maintain automated pipelines and OpenShift configurations for IRS environments. You will turn manual onboarding into self-service with built-in security checks and ensure reliable production deployments.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, configuration automation, and strong collaboration with security, IT operations, and project teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions for federal programs.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps, DevSecOps, build and release, or platform automation.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Infrastructure as code or configuration management with Terraform, Ansible or Helm.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that test, scan and deploy API and Kong gateway configuration through IRS environments.
• Manage gateway and platform configuration as code in Git, with peer review and versioned releases.
• Write infrastructure as code and configuration automation for OpenShift and cloud resources.
• Add security and validation checks to every pipeline so nothing reaches production without passing them.
• Automate repeatable onboarding tasks, such as consumer setup, certificate updates and policy changes, toward self service.
• Connect pipelines to IRS change control and ticketing, including ServiceNow records and Change Advisory Board (CAB) approvals.
• Script daily configuration backups and support quarterly restore tests.
• Document pipelines and hand over knowledge to the operations team.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Bash/Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Jenkins

Git

ServiceNow

Job description

eTel is seeking an experienced DevOps/DevSecOps engineer to build and maintain automated pipelines and OpenShift configurations for IRS environments. You will turn manual onboarding into self-service with built-in security checks and ensure reliable production deployments.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, configuration automation, and strong collaboration with security, IT operations, and project teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions for federal programs.