DevSecOps Engineer: Secure CI/CD & Automation

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) 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.