DevSecOps Engineer (Mid-Level)

CC Tech Digital; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CC Tech Digital seeks a DevOps engineer to build and operate secure cloud infrastructure for a large federal civilian program. You will manage infrastructure as code, Kubernetes delivery, security controls, observability, and production support, collaborating with application engineering.

The role requires 4–7 years in DevOps, hands-on Terraform, SRE practices, ArgoCD, Helm, and strong AWS knowledge. U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a federal Public Trust clearance are preferred.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering with a security focus.
• Hands-on Terraform experience, modules, state management and multi-environment design.
• Production experience with ArgoCD, Helm and Kubernetes.
• Strong AWS knowledge including IAM, VPC, EKS, RDS and CloudWatch.
• Ability to debug across infrastructure and application layers with security mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain AWS environments using reusable Terraform modules and state.
• Run GitOps deployments with ArgoCD and Helm on Kubernetes, with EKS as a preferred env.
• Strengthen CI/CD security via image, dependency, and secret scanning and policy enforcement.
• Manage cloud identity, secrets, and network boundaries per federal requirements.
• Set up logging, metrics, alerting; participate in on-call and production troubleshooting.
• Support authorization and compliance by implementing controls and gathering evidence.

Skills

DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Security

Tools

ArgoCD

Helm

Terraform

Job description

**Role overview**

Build and operate secure cloud infrastructure and delivery systems for a large online platform serving a federal civilian program. The role spans infrastructure as code, Kubernetes delivery, security controls, observability, and production support, with close collaboration across application engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain AWS environments using reusable Terraform modules and managed state.
• Run GitOps deployments with ArgoCD and Helm on Kubernetes, with EKS as a preferred environment.
• Strengthen CI/CD security through image, dependency, and secret scanning and policy enforcement.
• Manage cloud identity, secrets, and network boundaries in line with federal requirements.
• Set up logging, metrics, and alerting; take part in on-call response and production troubleshooting.
• Support authorization and compliance work by implementing controls, gathering evidence, and addressing findings.

Requirements

• 4-7 years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with a security focus.
• Hands-on Terraform expertise, including modules, state management, and multi-environment design.
• Production experience with ArgoCD, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Strong AWS knowledge, including IAM, VPC, ECS or EKS, RDS, and CloudWatch.
• Working knowledge of container security and software supply-chain hardening; able to debug across infrastructure and application layers.
• U.S. citizenship, U.S. location, and eligibility to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust clearance; an active clearance is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a federal civilian program or working with NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or authorization processes.
• Familiarity with policy tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or Sentinel, and with Kubernetes service mesh, ingress, or certificate management.
• Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.