DevSecOps Engineer

Custom Software Systems Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Dental

Vision

Long-term disability

Short-term disability

Basic term life insurance

Simple IRA

Parking/Commuting expense reimburse

Job summary

Custom Software Systems, Inc. (CSS) seeks a DevSecOps Engineer to own the secure CI/CD lifecycle for enterprise cybersecurity programs. You will build automation, integrate security tooling into workflows, and establish telemetry standards to scale security without manual toil.

This hands-on engineering role focuses on architecture, automation libraries, runbooks, and audit-ready artifacts, spanning cloud-native and hybrid environments. U.S.

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten years in DevSecOps with security experience.
• At least five of those ten years in cybersecurity and cloud security at a large government agency.
• Secure CI/CD pipeline engineering with in-pipeline security gates and automated workflows.
• S.-based; able to obtain VA Tier 4 / High Risk Public Trust and PIV.

Responsibilities

• Engineer secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates enforced in the pipeline and integrate security tooling into automated workflows.
• Build and maintain automation backbone: workflow/SOAR library, runbooks, and data normalization across tools.
• Harden configurations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management at scale with audit-ready change control.
• Deliver recurring engineering outputs: integration/schema docs, monthly tool optimization reports, and audit remediation artifacts.
• Support continuous security validation, vulnerability management, and incident response across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Skills

DevSecOps experience

Cybersecurity

Cloud security

Security automation

Education

CISSP preferred

Tools

Terraform

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

Custom Software Systems, Inc. (CSS) is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support our clients' enterprise cybersecurity engineering program. You'll own the secure CI/CD lifecycle and the integration work that wires their cybersecurity tooling into a working, automated pipeline — building the automation, workflow libraries, and telemetry standards that let security scale without adding manual effort. This is hands-on engineering with enterprise scope and a heavy automation-and-integration focus.

Responsibilities

• Engineer secure CI/CD pipelines with security gates enforced in the pipeline, and integrate disparate security tooling (SIEM, scanners, ticketing) into automated, orchestrated workflows.
• Build and maintain the automation backbone: a version-controlled workflow/SOAR library, engineering runbooks and playbooks, and data-normalization and labeling standards across tools that don't natively agree.
• Harden and manage enterprise baseline configurations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management at scale, with change control that survives an audit.
• Produce the recurring engineering deliverables this role owns — integration and schema documentation, monthly tool-optimization reporting, and audit-remediation and requirements-traceability artifacts.
• Support continuous security validation, vulnerability management, and incident response across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Citizenship

US Citizenship

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of ten (10) years of DevSecOps experience
• At least five (5) of those ten (10) years in cybersecurity and cloud security at a large government agency comparable in size and scope to VA, DoD, IRS, or GSA.
• Secure CI/CD pipeline engineering with in-pipeline security gates; integrating SIEM/scanners/ticketing into automated workflows; infrastructure-as-code and configuration management at scale; and data-normalization/schema work across disagreeing tools.
• S.-based; able to obtain and maintain the VA Tier 4 / High Risk Public Trust and PIV.

Certifications

• One current certification: IAT III, IAM III, or IASAE III ( CISSP preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

• Federal DevSecOps experience.
• Container and Kubernetes security.
• Experience retiring redundant tooling,

Compensation & Benefits

• Wage Range: Negotiable
• General Benefits: Custom Software Systems, Inc. offers our employees a competitive benefits package that may include:

• Health insurance plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Dental
• Vision
• Long-term disability
• Short-term disability
• Basic term life insurance
• Supplemental term life insurance for employees, spouses, and dependents
• Simple IRA
• Parking/Commuting expense reimbursementCompensation range must be coordinated with and approved by the CSS Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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