Remote DevSecOps Engineer - Azure CI/CD for Federal PHIS

Visual Connections, LLC; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Training & development

Holidays

Job summary

Visual Connections, LLC in Columbia, Maryland, seeks a DevSecOps Engineer for a 100% remote role supporting the USDA FSIS PHIS modernization. You will design and operate secure CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and embed security controls across development, test, and production environments.

You will work with developers, security, and operations to deliver reliable releases while protecting government data and ensuring traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, software engineering, engineering, or related field with at least four years of DevSecOps or similar experience.
• At least three years of hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, source-control workflows, and environment configuration in Azure DevOps or equivalent platform.
• Experience integrating automated security testing, secrets protection, dependency governance, vulnerability remediation, and auditable controls into SDLC.
• Experience deploying and supporting multi-tier .NET, API, database, and Azure workloads in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for C#/.NET apps, APIs, and databases.
• Automate build, test, configuration, deployment, verification, and rollback across environments.
• Establish end-to-end traceability with Git, PRs, reviews, tagging, and artifact retention.
• Implement gated promotion workflows with approvals, separation of duties, and audit trails.
• Integrate SAST/DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and IaC scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain secure software supply-chain practices and artifact integrity.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD pipelines

PowerShell

Bash

Python

C#/.NET

REST APIs

Security testing

Infrastructure as code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

Azure Functions

Azure Key Vault

Azure Data Factory

Azure SQL

Job description

Visual Connections, LLC in Columbia, Maryland, seeks a DevSecOps Engineer for a 100% remote role supporting the USDA FSIS PHIS modernization. You will design and operate secure CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and embed security controls across development, test, and production environments.

You will work with developers, security, and operations to deliver reliable releases while protecting government data and ensuring traceability.