DevSecOps Engineer

Fortreum; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with 4% match

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

AD&D and life insurance

Flexible time off

Training stipends

Job summary

Fortreum is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to embed with enterprise and federal customers, deploying and operationalizing Kovr AI Platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will build CI/CD, automate evidence collection, and implement security controls in line with FedRAMP, NIST, and OSCAL, serving as the technical bridge between customers and Kovr's engineering team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure using Terraform at scale.
• Production experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar).
• Direct experience with FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-53/800-171, or DoD SRG.
• Familiarity with OSCAL or other machine-readable frameworks.
• Experience integrating SAST/DAST or IaC security scanning into a pipeline.
• Scripting in Python or Bash.
• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.
• Local to Washington, DC metro area.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, secure software delivery.
• Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure/GCP exposure) using IaC.
• Administer containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, ArgoCD).
• Implement and maintain security controls aligned to NIST 800-53/OSCAL.
• Design observability strategy (logging, metrics, SLOs) for production reliability.
• Integrate DevOps tools (GitHub, JIRA, Splunk, Snyk) into automated workloads.
• Collaborate with engineering and compliance teams for continuous authorization posture.
• Support continuous monitoring and audit-readiness activities.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive deployment reliability.
• Build and maintain docs, runbooks, architecture decision records.
• Represent infra/security in cross-functional planning and customer conversations.

Skills

DevSecOps

AWS Terraform

Kubernetes

FedRAMP/CMMC

NIST 800-53

OSCAL

SAST/DAST

Python/Bash

Top Secret clearance

DC local

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

JIRA

Splunk

Snyk

ArgoCD

Job description

Fortreum is a trusted leader in cloud and cybersecurity services, ranked among the Top 5 FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAO). With the addition of Kovr.AI, we have expanded our capabilities to include advanced cyber risk quantification and analytics, enabling organizations to better understand, measure, and communicate risk. Together, we deliver independent, third-party, vendor-agnostic regulatory assessment and advisory services, alongside advanced cybersecurity offensive and compliance technical solutions. Our comprehensive service portfolio spans regulatory compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, CMMC, FISMA, SOC, PCI, ISO, and HIPAA.

Working with Fortune 500 companies and leading cloud service providers, we’ve built our reputation on service-delivery excellence and an unwavering commitment to client success. Our continued rapid growth creates exceptional opportunities for driven professionals to make their mark in the cybersecurity industry—guided by our core values: quality above all, a customer-driven mindset, autonomy, and personal accountability.

Fortreum is transforming how compliance gets done through the Kovr AI Platform — our AI-native compliance automation solution. In the age of agentic AI, Kovr applies intelligent, autonomous workflows to the assessment and authorization lifecycle, turning slow, manual, evidence-heavy compliance work into a faster, repeatable, and more reliable process. By automating artifact generation, evidence and control mapping, and continuous validation across frameworks such as FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC, ISO, and HIPAA, the platform dramatically compresses assessment timelines and is setting a new standard for how organizations achieve and sustain compliance.

The Opportunity

On our team, you will have the opportunity to work with industry-leading experts who’ve supported the world’s most security-conscious organizations. As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will embed with enterprise and federal customers to deploy, integrate, and operationalize the Kovr AI Platform within their environments—building integrations with their DevSecOps toolchains, automating evidence collection and continuous monitoring, and configuring compliance workflows that accelerate Authority to Operate (ATO). You will serve as the hands-on technical bridge between our customers and Kovr’s engineering team, solving complex deployment challenges across cloud, hybrid, and classified National Security and Intelligence Community (IC) environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting rapid, secure software delivery

• Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, with exposure to Azure/GCP) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), including module design and reusable patterns for the broader team

• Administer and scale containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, ArgoCD)

• Implement and maintain security controls and monitoring aligned to NIST 800-53 and OSCAL-based frameworks

• Design observability strategy (logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs) to support production reliability at scale

• Integrate DevOps tooling (GitHub, JIRA, Splunk, Snyk) into automated compliance and remediation workflows

• Collaborate with existing engineering and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure changes maintain continuous authorization posture

• Support continuous monitoring and audit-readiness activities, including evidence collection and control mapping

• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvement in deployment reliability

• Build and maintain documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records

• Represent infrastructure/security in cross-functional planning, including customer-facing technical conversations when needed

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience

• Hands-on experience architecting AWS infrastructure using Terraform at scale

• Strong production experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), including cluster design, Helm Charts, and GitHub/GitOps workflows

• Direct experience with FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-53/800-171, or DoD SRG compliance environments

• Familiarity with OSCAL or other machine-readable compliance/documentation frameworks

• Experience integrating SAST/DAST or IaC security scanning into a pipeline

• Scripting/automation proficiency (Python, Bash, or similar)

• U.S. Citizenship, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup-within-a-company environment

• Local to Washington, DC metro area

Preferred Qualifications

• Existing security or cloud certifications (Security+, AWS Certified Security, CYSA+, CISSP)

• Experience integrating LLM coding agents, MCPs, and automations into DevOps workflows

• Prior experience holding or maintaining a Top Secret security clearance

• Background supporting federal DevSecOps deployments or highly regulated commercial clients Charts

Posted Salary Range

$155,000 - $205,000 annual salary

What Fortreum Offers

We offer a competitive compensation package, where you will be rewarded based on your performance/outcomes and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Our benefits package includes medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401K plan with a 4% match, company paid short-term disability, company paid long-term disability, company paid AD&D and life insurance, flex time off, annual bonuses, training stipends, certification reimbursements, access to over 30,000 free online training courses, personal cell phone allowance, new hire and annual home office stipend, spot awards and eleven paid holidays.

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