DevSecOps Engineer: Secure Cloud & CI/CD Lead

INNOVIM; Colorado Springs, Huntsville (CO, AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation packages

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

Life insurance

Matching 401k contribution

Educational/Training support

Job summary

IDS is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency on the IRES contract. The role is based at Schriever Space Force Base, CO or Redstone Arsenal, AL, with travel up to 10% and DoW Secret clearance.

You will design, implement, and operate cloud and on-prem infrastructure, integrate security into the software lifecycle, and lead automation and CI/CD initiatives with a focus on resiliency and compliance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of general (full-time) work experience.
• 4+ years in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps or a related technical discipline.
• 6+ months of experience in a management or leadership role.
• Experience designing and operating production infrastructure in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, private cloud and/or hybrid environments.
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management tools.
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain scalable, resilient and secure infrastructure across cloud, hybrid and/or on-premises environments.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi or equivalent.
• Build, maintain and improve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that incorporate automated security controls, testing, artifact management and deployment approvals.
• Integrate security practices into the development lifecycle, including code scanning, dependency scanning, secret detection, container image scanning, configuration validation and vulnerability remediation workflows.
• Engineer and operate containerized platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift or comparable technologies.
• Establish platform observability through centralized logging, metrics, alerting, tracing, dashboards and service-level objectives.
• Implement identity, access, secret-management, encryption, network segmentation and least-privilege controls in partnership with cybersecurity stakeholders.
• Support system availability, incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, backup and continuity-of-operations activities.
• Automate routine operational activities to reduce manual effort, configuration drift, deployment risk and mean time to restore service.
• Define and maintain technical standards, reference architectures, runbooks and operational documentation.
• Conduct infrastructure and deployment design reviews; identify technical risks, security gaps, performance constraints and remediation options.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering practices for secure coding, operational readiness, automation and infrastructure reliability.
• Coordinate with engineering, security, compliance and program stakeholders to prioritize platform improvements and resolve crossfunctional issues.

Skills

Cloud infra

IaC

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Security in SDLC

Observability

Container security

Tools

CloudFormation

Pulumi

OpenShift

Job description

IDS is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency on the IRES contract. The role is based at Schriever Space Force Base, CO or Redstone Arsenal, AL, with travel up to 10% and DoW Secret clearance.

You will design, implement, and operate cloud and on-prem infrastructure, integrate security into the software lifecycle, and lead automation and CI/CD initiatives with a focus on resiliency and compliance.