Junior SecDevOps Engineer - Federal Cloud Security

Knox Systems, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life & Disability

401k plan

Job summary

Knox Systems, Inc. is seeking a Junior SecDevOps Engineer to support maintenance, monitoring, and security auditing of our federal cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes identity administration, vulnerability triage, and secure, repeatable operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP within FedRAMP boundaries, on-site in Washington, DC. You will work under senior engineers to grow expertise in Zero Trust architectures, automated compliance, and multi-cloud environments, with a

Qualifications

• Experience: 1–2 years in an entry-level technical role (IT Support, Junior Systems Admin, Helpdesk/NOC, etc.).
• Location: on-site in Washington, DC.
• Foundational security and cloud basics with a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Assist in monitoring Zero Trust Identity operations (Zscaler ZPA/PRA) and verify connectors.
• Run Terraform modules and maintain automation in development and staging environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Monitor and triage CI/CD pipeline failures; review security scans embedded in pipelines.
• Assist compliance with FedRAMP ConMon controls and manage POA&M tickets.
• Maintain dashboards and incident response readiness with on-call shadow responsibilities.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Networking basics

Git workflows

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Security mindset

Growth mindset

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

CI/CD tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Knox Systems, Inc. is seeking a Junior SecDevOps Engineer to support maintenance, monitoring, and security auditing of our federal cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes identity administration, vulnerability triage, and secure, repeatable operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP within FedRAMP boundaries, on-site in Washington, DC. You will work under senior engineers to grow expertise in Zero Trust architectures, automated compliance, and multi-cloud environments, with a