Onsite DevSecOps Engineer — Fast, Secure GitLab Pipelines

Socket.dev; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flextime Scheduling

Bereavement

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Parental Leave

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Long-Term Disability (LTD)

Vision Reimbursement

Job summary

Areté in Falls Church, VA is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to stabilize and secure GitLab pipelines and CI/CD tooling. You will own the self-hosted GitLab environment, assist developers, and write documentation to prevent future tickets.

The role includes after-hours support and collaboration with Cyber Security and IT teams. You will drive pipeline reliability, implement security scans, manage runners, and build templates for a secure, scalable baseline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent; or 2 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on DevOps/DevSecOps with modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building, debugging, and optimizing GitLab CI pipelines; strong preference for self-hosted GitLab administration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary point of contact for pipeline failures, GitLab access, runner issues, and environment troubleshooting.
• Build reusable pipeline templates, CI/CD components, and project scaffolding for secure baselines.
• Create onboarding guides, runbooks, and training on Git workflow, pipeline authoring, and secure development practices.
• Advise developers on branching strategy, code review, versioning, and release management.
• Administer self-hosted GitLab, backups, migrations, and runner fleets; manage artifact repositories and security configurations.

Skills

GitLab CI

Linux admin

Docker

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Security tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Documentation

Runbooks

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IT

Tools

GitLab

JFrog Artifactory

SonarQube

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitOps tooling

Job description

Areté in Falls Church, VA is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to stabilize and secure GitLab pipelines and CI/CD tooling. You will own the self-hosted GitLab environment, assist developers, and write documentation to prevent future tickets.

The role includes after-hours support and collaboration with Cyber Security and IT teams. You will drive pipeline reliability, implement security scans, manage runners, and build templates for a secure, scalable baseline.