Remote Senior Security Automation Engineer (DevSecOps)

SkyePoint Decisions; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification incentive program

PTO

Floating federal holiday options

Health insurance options

401k matched

Job summary

SkyePoint Decisions is a federal contractor offering a remote Security Automation Engineer role to support a government client. You will design automated security controls within a DevSecOps pipeline to ensure continuous secure software delivery.

Responsibilities include SAST/DAST/IAST, SBOM and secrets scanning, automated findings routing, and security gates aligned with NIST SP 800-218 and CIS benchmarks, collaborating with developers to improve secure coding and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years experience in application security, DevSecOps, or compliance automation.
• Experience scripting or integrating security checks and remediation workflows.
• Working knowledge of secure SDLC and cloud/security control frameworks.
• U.S. Citizenship required; ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust; active Secret preferred.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and operate SAST, DAST, IAST, software composition analysis, SBOM, secrets/dependency scanning, and IaC security review capabilities.
• Automate collection, normalization, correlation, and routing of security findings into approved workflows and repositories.
• Develop security gates, policy checks, dashboards, notifications, and exception-handling workflows within customer-approved platforms.
• Support continuous penetration-testing activities and incorporate results into development and remediation workflows.
• Implement security automation aligned with NIST SP 800-218, OMB/CISA guidance, STIGs, CIS benchmarks, and customer standards.
• Collaborate with developers and platform engineers to remediate findings and improve secure coding and release readiness.
• Maintain security automation code, configurations, procedures, evidence, and technical documentation.

Skills

SAST

DAST

IAST

SBOM

Secrets scanning

IaC security

Cloud security

Education

Bachelors in Cybersecurity

Tools

GitLab security

AWS security services

Python scripting

Job description

SkyePoint Decisions is a federal contractor offering a remote Security Automation Engineer role to support a government client. You will design automated security controls within a DevSecOps pipeline to ensure continuous secure software delivery.

Responsibilities include SAST/DAST/IAST, SBOM and secrets scanning, automated findings routing, and security gates aligned with NIST SP 800-218 and CIS benchmarks, collaborating with developers to improve secure coding and release readiness.