Mission-Critical DevSecOps CI/CD Engineer

Peraton; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a DevSecOps / CI/CD Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical enterprise platform supporting an Intelligence Community customer. Location: Chantilly, VA, onsite in a zero-trust hub-and-spoke environment.

You will develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate builds and deployments, embed security across the SDLC, and collaborate with platform engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams to improve speed,

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, plus 5+ years of relevant experience; additional 4 years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
• Hands-on experience independently designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in a production environment.
• Experience automating software builds, testing, artifact management, and deployment to containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating automated security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, including application security testing, dependency analysis, container scanning, or secrets detection.
• Proficiency with Git and scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code and deployment automation using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar technologies.
• DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE, or the ability to obtain the required certification within the applicable timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform services, infrastructure components, and tenant applications.
• Automate software builds, testing, packaging, artifact management, and deployment to containerized environments.
• Implement GitOps practices, including source control management, branching strategies, release versioning, and declarative deployment workflows.
• Develop reusable pipeline templates, shared automation, and self-service tooling to standardize workflows and accelerate onboarding.
• Implement infrastructure and deployment automation using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot complex pipeline failures and improve build, test, and deployment processes across environments.
• Integrate automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container image scanning, secrets detection, and code quality checks.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab CI

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

SAST/DAST

SBOMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Peraton is seeking a DevSecOps / CI/CD Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical enterprise platform supporting an Intelligence Community customer. Location: Chantilly, VA, onsite in a zero-trust hub-and-spoke environment.

You will develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate builds and deployments, embed security across the SDLC, and collaborate with platform engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams to improve speed,