Remote DevSecOps Engineer — Secure Cloud & Kubernetes

Virtualitics; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Paid health benefits

Unlimited PTO

Remote & hybrid options

Job summary

Virtualitics is the category leader in AI-native readiness applications for defense, government, and critical infrastructure. Our Readiness AI solutions deliver operational certainty by identifying risks, diagnosing root causes, and recommending prioritized actions with transparent AI.

We empower leaders to move from data complexity to decision advantage. Join a high‑performance team building AI that performs where it matters most, with ownership from day one and opportunities to grow in

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, or cloud security engineering.
• Advanced AWS experience (EC2, VPC, S3, ECR, EKS, RDS, Route 53/DNS, IAM, SSO, Bedrock, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager).
• Strong experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
• Kubernetes expertise including RBAC, network policies, and pod security standards.
• Experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines that scan code, build/harden images, SBOMs, and deploy to Kubernetes.
• Experience with container hardening and secure registries (Iron Bank, Chainguard).
• Experience deploying containerized workloads into DoD environments (Platform One, Cloud One).
• Knowledge of NIST 800-53, 800-171, and CMMC 2.0 controls.
• Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL database administration.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and support Virtualitics’ platform within DoD and commercial customer environments.
• Design, build, and maintain secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Implement and enforce security controls across CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
• Mitigate container and dependency vulnerabilities using automated scanning and remediation.
• Build and improve automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and compliance.
• Support ATO processes and ongoing compliance efforts.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and QA to ensure secure, scalable deployment architectures.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud security

AWS expert

Terraform IaC

Kubernetes RBAC

Secure CI/CD

SBOMs & signed images

Secure registries

DoD deployments

MySQL & PostgreSQL

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Iron Bank

Chainguard

NIST controls knowledge

Job description

Virtualitics is the category leader in AI-native readiness applications for defense, government, and critical infrastructure. Our Readiness AI solutions deliver operational certainty by identifying risks, diagnosing root causes, and recommending prioritized actions with transparent AI.

We empower leaders to move from data complexity to decision advantage. Join a high‑performance team building AI that performs where it matters most, with ownership from day one and opportunities to grow in