Lead DevSecOps Engineer - AWS GovCloud & DoD Security

Credence; Illinois; On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Credence is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to support federal programs hosted on AWS GovCloud. Lead a team of ~5 engineers, design secure infrastructure, and drive CI/CD, security compliance, and automation across DoD and Civilian agency applications.

The role requires strong automation, IaC, and containerization skills, with DoD eligibility and security clearance. Collaborative, mission-focused environment with opportunities to influence mission-critical outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infra Automation.
• Strong AWS GovCloud expertise and security/compliance knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Code Pipeline.
• Proficient in IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.
• Containerization with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/ECS/Fargate).
• Ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ~5 DevSecOps engineers; provide technical direction.
• Design secure, scalable GovCloud architectures and pipelines.
• Own on-call incident response and continuous improvement.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud engineering

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

AWS Code Pipeline

Ansible

Python scripting

Kubernetes

Docker

EKS

Security frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

CloudFormation

Splunk

CloudWatch

GuardDuty

AWS IAM

AWS WAF

Job description

Credence is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to support federal programs hosted on AWS GovCloud. Lead a team of ~5 engineers, design secure infrastructure, and drive CI/CD, security compliance, and automation across DoD and Civilian agency applications.

The role requires strong automation, IaC, and containerization skills, with DoD eligibility and security clearance. Collaborative, mission-focused environment with opportunities to influence mission-critical outcomes.