Junior SecDevOps Engineer — Zero Trust & Cloud Security

Knox Systems; Washington; On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life & Disability

401k plan

Equity

Job summary

Knox is seeking a Junior SecDevOps Engineer to support the security, monitoring, and automation of cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role operates on-site in Washington, DC, focusing on identity, IAM, and basic automation under senior engineers.

You will gain elite skills in Zero Trust architectures, automated compliance, and multi-cloud operations while contributing to secure, auditable government-grade environments.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years in an entry-level technical role (IT support, junior sysadmin, etc).
• Must be able to work on-site in Washington, DC.
• Foundational Linux, networking, Git workflows, and scripting basics.
• Security-minded with strong documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Zero Trust and identity tools; verify connectors are operational.
• Run pre-defined Terraform modules and review configuration drift.
• Triaging CI/CD pipeline issues and security scan results.
• Assist with compliance evidence and change requests in ServiceNow.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Networking basics

Git workflows

Scripting (Python or Bash)

Security mindset

Documentation

On-site collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Vault

Zscaler

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Knox is seeking a Junior SecDevOps Engineer to support the security, monitoring, and automation of cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role operates on-site in Washington, DC, focusing on identity, IAM, and basic automation under senior engineers.

You will gain elite skills in Zero Trust architectures, automated compliance, and multi-cloud operations while contributing to secure, auditable government-grade environments.