Satellite DevSecOps Engineer: Secure CI/CD for Space

Apex; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shared upside equity

Healthcare—100% company-paid medical/d

Job summary

Apex is building advanced satellite buses and is seeking a DevSecOps professional to design, develop, and own the software infrastructure that enables secure, auditable builds across embedded software, flight software, and internal tooling. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, container image creation, and SBOM generation while coordinating with software and hardware teams in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

This role is based in Playa Vista, CA, with opportunities to shape security across the

Qualifications

• U.S. Person status required due to export-controlled data.
• 4+ years hands-on experience in DevOps, platform/DevSecOps, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong proficiency building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container development—building, hardening, and optimizing images.
• Experience with secure container, SBOM, and scanning tools (e.g., Chainguard, JFrog Xray, Binarly).
• Experience with artifact management (JFrog Artifactory).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across languages, primarily in GitHub Actions.
• Develop and optimize containerized build and test workflows; own base images, build caching, and artifact management (JFrog Artifactory).
• Own the secure container supply chain: harden base images, manage trusted registries, and integrate image scanning into every build.
• Automate SBOM generation and vulnerability/license scanning across artifacts and container images.
• Own static analysis tooling and surface findings in a digestible, automated way.
• Code Signing: own code-signing infrastructure and verification workflows.
• Build lightweight internal solutions — policy-as-code, custom scanners, CI/CD integrations — for automatic security/compliance.
• Partner with software engineers to triage vulnerabilities; champion secure coding/training.
• Work with embedded, ground, and infrastructure teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Threat modeling

Developer security training

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

JFrog Artifactory

JFrog Xray

Chainguard

Binarly

Klocwork

Job description

Apex is building advanced satellite buses and is seeking a DevSecOps professional to design, develop, and own the software infrastructure that enables secure, auditable builds across embedded software, flight software, and internal tooling. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, container image creation, and SBOM generation while coordinating with software and hardware teams in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

This role is based in Playa Vista, CA, with opportunities to shape security across the