Principal DevSecOps Engineer

TCS; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Vision

401k match

Profit Sharing

Flexible Time Off

STDLTD

Life Insurance

Referral Bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Vacation

Sick leave

Maternity leave

Paternity leave

Job summary

TCS is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to join our team supporting the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program in Huntsville, AL. The role involves designing, developing, delivering and sustaining cybersecurity technologies for a large-scale government system, with emphasis on CI/CD, IaC, and secure software development practices.

The ideal candidate has DoD 8140 IAT II certification, strong Windows/Linux administration, cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP), and a background in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, Cybersecurity or a related field with 5 years of experience; or Master's degree with 3 years of related experience; or 1 year with a PhD
• Must have a DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification (ex. Security CE or CISSP)
• Strong systems administrator experience specifically in Windows/Linux Operating Systems environments
• Experience working with cloud technologies and platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, approaches, requirements and iteration plans for a large-scale classified government system
• Familiarity and skills in agile software principles particularly regarding building a plan or roadmap for multiyear program product
• Interest and aptitude in developing Infrastructure as code scripts in Terraform and Helm to provision cloud resources
• Familiarity with configuring and maintaining DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools including best practices, automated builds and tests, quality gates, software quality and CI tools (e.g., Jenkins)
• Communicates effectively both internally and externally to team
• Eager to expand knowledge and continually improve
• Ability to write or review software code (Java, Python, etc.)
• US Citizenship and active DoD Secret clearance or higher
• Must be able to support an in person closed area work environment 100% of the time

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deliver and sustain new and existing cybersecurity technologies in support of further development of the GMD weapon system
• Create, modify and document all enhancements, and efforts to include system design documents, standard operating procedures, operations and maintenance manuals, procedures, software development plans and related documentation
• Program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
• Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability and other selection criteria deemed applicable
• Review current systems and analyze business functions or processes to understand the needs for which applications are being designed
• Recommend system capabilities and objectives for assigned projects
• Conduct quality assurance reviews
• Develop all components and services using industry best practices such as test-driven development, centralized source code management, code reviews and automated testing
• Utilize continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows to the maximum extent possible for all published components
• Produce DevOps best practice templates to enable rapid implementation of DevSecOps development workflows
• Provide subject matter expertise during the review of potential technologies proposed for integration with the environment
• Fully document development efforts using a combination of code comments, project issue tracking, change requests and formal documentation
• Ensure that software deployments minimally impact production workloads running in production environments
• Perform analysis and tests as needed to aid the design process and to document the end item business functionality and system performance requirements
• Identify emerging technologies, alternatives and standards implementations such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide better support for developers and application stakeholders

Skills

DoD 8140 IAT II

Windows/Linux

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

Terraform

Helm

Jenkins

Java/Python

US Citizenship

Clearance

Agile

Education

Bachelor's in CS/IS/Cyber

Master's in CS/IS/Cyber

PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Jenkins

SonarQube/Fortify/Coverity

Nexus

Job description

Principal DevSecOps Engineer Clearances Required Active DoD Secret location Huntsville Alabama United States

Note: This is a contingent listing for a position that is planned to open up in February 2026 interviews may begin in December or January

TCS is searching for a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to join our strong team supporting our Ground based Midcourse Defense GMD customer in Huntsville AL The GMD program is a portion of the Missile Defense Agency's MDA system to protect the US and our allies from ballistic missile attack The selected candidate will use modern development automation and management tools to work in both Linux and Windows environments in legacy and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deliver and sustain new and existing cybersecurity technologies in support of further development of the GMD weapon system
• Create, modify and document all enhancements, and efforts to include system design documents, standard operating procedures, operations and maintenance manuals, procedures, software development plans and related documentation
• Program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
• Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability and other selection criteria deemed applicable
• Review current systems and analyze business functions or processes to understand the needs for which applications are being designed
• Recommend system capabilities and objectives for assigned projects
• Conduct quality assurance reviews
• Develop all components and services using industry best practices such as test-driven development, centralized source code management, code reviews and automated testing
• Utilize continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows to the maximum extent possible for all published components
• Produce DevOps best practice templates to enable rapid implementation of DevSecOps development workflows
• Provide subject matter expertise during the review of potential technologies proposed for integration with the environment
• Fully document development efforts using a combination of code comments, project issue tracking, change requests and formal documentation
• Ensure that software deployments minimally impact production workloads running in production environments
• Perform analysis and tests as needed to aid the design process and to document the end item business functionality and system performance requirements
• Identify emerging technologies, alternatives and standards implementations such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide better support for developers and application stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, Cybersecurity or a related field with 5 years of experience; or Master's degree with 3 years of related experience; or 1 year with a PhD
• Must have a DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification (ex. Security CE or CISSP)
• Strong systems administrator experience specifically in Windows/Linux Operating Systems environments
• Experience working with cloud technologies and platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, approaches, requirements and iteration plans for a large-scale classified government system
• Familiarity and skills in agile software principles particularly regarding building a plan or roadmap for multiyear program product
• Interest and aptitude in developing Infrastructure as code scripts in Terraform and Helm to provision cloud resources
• Familiarity with configuring and maintaining DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools including best practices, automated builds and tests, quality gates, software quality and CI tools (e.g., Jenkins)
• Communicates effectively both internally and externally to team
• Eager to expand knowledge and continually improve
• Ability to write or review software code (Java, Python, etc.)
• US Citizenship and active DoD Secret clearance or higher
• Must be able to support an in person closed area work environment 100% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker and/or other cloud orchestration technologies
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Experience with branching strategies, gated commits and source controlled management
• Programming and scripting experience in a UNIX environment (C, Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, Shell Scripts)
• Programming and scripting experience in a Windows environment (PowerShell, etc.)
• Experience with PaaS (Platform as a Service) infrastructure
• Experience with or basic knowledge of software development (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C, C++ or any modern object-oriented language and its life cycles)
• Utilize Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services
• Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins and Nexus repository experience
• Experience with security coding standard best practices, static and dynamic scanning tools (e.g., SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity)
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes clusters

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k match
• Profit Sharing
• Flexible Time Off
• STDLTD
• Life Insurance
• Referral Bonuses
• Professional development reimbursement
• Vacation
• Sick leave
• Maternity leave
• Paternity leave

TCS Inc is an EEO Employer