DevSecOps Engineer II - Secure CI/CD for Federal Systems

ERT, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Entarian is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer II to design, secure, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across development, test, and production environments. You will integrate security controls with automated scans, manage containerized workloads in Kubernetes, and implement IaC-based infrastructure provisioning for cloud and hybrid setups.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity teams, maintain test coverage, and contribute to the evolution of DevSecOps practices in line with federal security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years in DevOps, software engineering, or related field.
• Experience supporting federal agencies or government contracting with security requirements.
• Expertise delivering CI/CD pipelines across multi-environment architectures.
• Ability to remediate STIG findings and ensure federal standards.
• Hands-on with container orchestration and security hardening.
• Proficiency with IaC (Terraform) and testing strategies.
• Experience with SAST/DAST tools and secure coding practices.
• Strong Linux scripting and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, secure, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using industry-leading orchestrator tools.
• Remediate STIG findings and verify compliance with federal cybersecurity standards.
• Architect scalable, reliable DevSecOps infrastructure for Kubernetes environments.
• Maintain automated deployment and configuration workflows with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Enforce secure coding, dependency management, and performance improvements.
• Integrate continuous security controls into pipelines with automated scanning and governance.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

SRE practices

Agile Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Jenkins

GitLab

Harness

OpenShift

Buildah

apko

Job description

Entarian is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer II to design, secure, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across development, test, and production environments. You will integrate security controls with automated scans, manage containerized workloads in Kubernetes, and implement IaC-based infrastructure provisioning for cloud and hybrid setups.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity teams, maintain test coverage, and contribute to the evolution of DevSecOps practices in line with federal security