DevSecOps SME | Cloud Security Engineer — Hybrid (TS/SCI)

Dark Wolf; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dark Wolf is seeking a Mid-Level DevSecOps SME / ISSE to join a collaborative, dynamic team in a fast-paced mission environment. The role will work with customer teams and external contractors, applying information security principles and cloud security expertise across AWS or GCP environments.

The successful candidate will have 5+ years of IT security experience, strong Kubernetes knowledge, automation skills, and a background in secure software development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in IT security, information assurance, or DevSecOps engineering.

Responsibilities

• Conducting technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architectures (AWS or GCP), and information security aspects and accreditation.
• Performing vulnerability assessments using automated software, pipeline, and container scanning tools including SonarQube, Snyk, NeuVector, and OWASP ZAP.
• Reviewing requests for software installation and conduct technical risk assessments on software implementation, specifically within Kubernetes clustered environments.
• Coordinating and tracking security action requests and report status to senior managers, leveraging GitOps workflows and automation tooling like ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD.
• Analyzing, modifying when necessary, and maintaining the client’s certification to field security approvals (continuous ATO) by implementing DISA STIGs through automated Ansible Playbooks and hardened Dockerfiles.
• Conducting and analyzing auditing requirements continuously, implementing and monitoring logging, metrics, and tracing stacks via Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, and Alloy.
• Enforcing zero-trust network architectures and traffic management within containerized environments using Istio or similar service meshes.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud Security

Security Engineering

Automation

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Customer Collaboration

Python

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

IAT Lvl 2 certification (e.g., Security+)

Tools

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

Istio

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Loki

Prometheus

Job description

Dark Wolf is seeking a Mid-Level DevSecOps SME / ISSE to join a collaborative, dynamic team in a fast-paced mission environment. The role will work with customer teams and external contractors, applying information security principles and cloud security expertise across AWS or GCP environments.

The successful candidate will have 5+ years of IT security experience, strong Kubernetes knowledge, automation skills, and a background in secure software development.