Hybrid DevSecOps Security Engineer: Secure CI/CD & Kubernetes

Zachary Piper Solutions; Gaithersburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cigna Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

PTO

Sick Leave

Holidays

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a DevSecOps Security Engineer to support a federal government customer in a hybrid role (3 onsite, 2 remote) within commuting distance of Gaithersburg, MD. You will embed security controls across the software delivery lifecycle and collaborate with platform and application teams to maintain secure deployments.

The role emphasizes secure software delivery at scale, incident response support, and continuous authorization efforts with cloud security familiarity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field + 4 years of relevant experience.
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines with SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, and container scanning technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container security, and vulnerability remediation processes.
• Experience with Git-based development workflows and CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Experience with security automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets-management solutions.
• Working knowledge of NIST 800-53 and AWS and/or Azure security.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust US government security clearance

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain automated security controls within CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, and infrastructure-as-code scanning.
• Enforce security gates, artifact signing, provenance verification, and SBOM generation to prevent vulnerable or unverified software deployments.
• Secure and harden Kubernetes and container environments through RBAC, network policies, admission controls, secrets management, mTLS, and Linux/container hardening practices.
• Develop and maintain policy-as-code and infrastructure guardrails using tools such as OPA/Rego, Kyverno, or equivalent technologies.
• Partner with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities, produce security evidence for authorization activities, and support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous monitoring initiatives.

Skills

CI/CD security

Kubernetes

Container security

Git-based workflows

Python

Bash

Go

Secrets management

NIST 800-53

Cloud security (AWS/Azure)

Public Trust clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT or related field

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

OPA/Rego

Kyverno

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a DevSecOps Security Engineer to support a federal government customer in a hybrid role (3 onsite, 2 remote) within commuting distance of Gaithersburg, MD. You will embed security controls across the software delivery lifecycle and collaborate with platform and application teams to maintain secure deployments.

The role emphasizes secure software delivery at scale, incident response support, and continuous authorization efforts with cloud security familiarity