DevSecOps Engineer - Secure CI/CD for DoD Cloud

Innovative Defense Technologies; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

9/80 schedule

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development resources

Job summary

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for our Arlington, VA site. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, integrate security controls, and run a Software Factory across connected and air-gapped environments.

You will work with engineers, security and infra teams to deliver repeatable, compliant software delivery while ensuring secure, scalable platform tooling. A Secret clearance is required and hybrid on-site work is expected.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software or technical experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with containerization (Podman) and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of IaC principles/tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Basic scripting (Python, Bash).
• Git knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins.
• Integrate automated security controls within pipelines (SAST, SCA, container scanning, SBOM, secrets).
• Maintain core Software Factory tooling (GitLab, artifact repos, scanning tools, CI/CD infra).
• Develop IaC with Ansible and Terraform using templates.
• Deploy and maintain container workloads with Podman and Kubernetes.
• Operate DevSecOps platforms in air-gapped environments.
• Enforce compliance standards (NIST 800-171, DISA STIGs, RMF) through automation.
• Investigate issues across CI/CD, infra, tooling; document root causes.

Job description

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for our Arlington, VA site. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, integrate security controls, and run a Software Factory across connected and air-gapped environments.

You will work with engineers, security and infra teams to deliver repeatable, compliant software delivery while ensuring secure, scalable platform tooling. A Secret clearance is required and hybrid on-site work is expected.