Principal DevSecOps Engineer — Secure CI/CD & Cloud

General Dynamics Information Technology; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Competitive pay

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Software Engineer Principal to lead DevSecOps across government projects. You will guide secure design, automate pipelines, and drive incident response for mission-critical systems.

Requires 10+ years of experience, a TS SCI clearance, and expert skills in cloud architectures, IaC, and security tooling. Join a team delivering secure, scalable infrastructure for national defense programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field required.
• 10+ years of related experience preferred, with active TS SCI clearance.
• Expert-level proficiency in CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience with security compliance frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
• Experience with security assessments, threat modeling, and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Leading the implementation and management of DevSecOps practices across multiple projects and teams.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining automated and secure CI/CD pipelines with security testing.
• Providing technical leadership to cross‑functional teams on secure system design and operation.
• Architecting secure, scalable cloud and on‑prem infrastructure with IaC solutions.
• Leading incident response and root cause analysis efforts.

Skills

DevSecOps leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Security testing

Cloud architecture

Python/Bash/Go/Java

Threat modeling

Incident response

Security documentation

Mentoring junior engineers

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Azure DevOps

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Software Engineer Principal to lead DevSecOps across government projects. You will guide secure design, automate pipelines, and drive incident response for mission-critical systems.

Requires 10+ years of experience, a TS SCI clearance, and expert skills in cloud architectures, IaC, and security tooling. Join a team delivering secure, scalable infrastructure for national defense programs.