Federal DevSecOps Engineer: AWS CI/CD & Security

Jobtailor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AWS Certification

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a DevSecOps/Platform Engineer to secure federal delivery pipelines in Washington, DC. You will own secure CI/CD paths, implement policy-as-code, and create reproducible IaC with containerization, least privilege, and encryption.

You’ll monitor deployment health, security gates, and deliver evidence for ATO and continuous monitoring. Required: 4+ years in DevSecOps or platform engineering, a CS-related degree, hands-on CI/CD automation (CodePipeline/CodeBuild or GitHub Actions),

Qualifications

• 4+ years of DevSecOps or platform engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline automation with security gates and AWS-native tools or equivalents.
• Infrastructure-as-code and containerization.
• Automated security testing and vulnerability scanning.
• Scripting in Python or Bash.
• Git-based version control.
• Monitoring and logging.
• US citizenship; ability to obtain Public Trust.
• Ability to commute into Washington, DC regularly.
• Preferred: federal security experience and AWS/Kubernetes/secrets management familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Own a secure delivery path for federal systems.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with automated security testing, policy-as-code checks, controlled promotion, and review evidence.
• Create reproducible infrastructure-as-code environments with containerization, image scanning, least-privilege access, secrets management, and encryption.
• Implement monitoring, logging, vulnerability scanning, progressive delivery, blue/green and canary deployments, automated health checks, and rollback.
• Respond to incidents and track pipeline reliability and software-delivery performance metrics.
• Produce evidence supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) authorization and continuous monitoring.
• Work in AWS or client-managed on-premises environments.
• Help develop new capabilities, tools, and lines of business.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Security Testing

Python Scripting

Bash Scripting

Git Version Control

Monitoring & Logging

AWS Tools

Zero Trust

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a DevSecOps/Platform Engineer to secure federal delivery pipelines in Washington, DC. You will own secure CI/CD paths, implement policy-as-code, and create reproducible IaC with containerization, least privilege, and encryption.

You’ll monitor deployment health, security gates, and deliver evidence for ATO and continuous monitoring. Required: 4+ years in DevSecOps or platform engineering, a CS-related degree, hands-on CI/CD automation (CodePipeline/CodeBuild or GitHub Actions),