Junior DevSecOps Engineer: CI/CD, AWS & Secure Automation

Jobtailor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Washington, DC is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines from commit to deployment and to implement progressive delivery strategies using blue/green and canary deployments. You will write infrastructure-as-code on AWS, containerize services, and ensure patching, vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and logging to support secure operations and ATO processes.

Strong scripting skills, CI/CD tooling experience, and US citizenship with ability to obtain a

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of software development, platform, or operations engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Sole United States citizenship.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.
• Scripting ability (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts.
• Hands-on experience with at least one pipeline tool.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services.
• Familiarity with containerization.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Preferred: FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, ATO processes, or security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines from commit to deployment.
• Implement progressive delivery strategies with blue/green and canary deployments, with automated health checks and rollback.
• Write infrastructure-as-code on AWS.
• Containerize services and keep images patched, scanned, and small.
• Configure monitoring, logging, and vulnerability scanning for observable and secure systems.
• Help assemble security evidence for Authority to Operate (ATO) processes.
• Build routine automated builds, tests, and deployments.
• Implement automated security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA), policy-as-code checks, monitoring, logging, and NIST SP 800-53 controls.
• Participate in shift-left security practices.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools such as Amazon Q Developer.
• Contribute to new capabilities, tools, and lines of business.

Skills

CI/CD Pipeline Development

Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS)

Automated Security Testing (SAST, DAST

Containerization (Docker)

NIST SP 800-53 Compliance

Scripting (Python,Bash,PowerShell)

CloudFormation

Terraform

Vulnerability Scanning

AWS

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

PowerPoint

Excel

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Jobtailor in Washington, DC is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines from commit to deployment and to implement progressive delivery strategies using blue/green and canary deployments. You will write infrastructure-as-code on AWS, containerize services, and ensure patching, vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and logging to support secure operations and ATO processes.

Strong scripting skills, CI/CD tooling experience, and US citizenship with ability to obtain a