Secure AI DevSecOps Engineer – R&D (Remote)

Rackner, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with 100% match up to 6%

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision,

Remote-work support

Generous PTO and holidays

Job summary

Rackner, Inc. is seeking a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer to build mission-focused applications, AI-enabled development tools, and secure software-delivery pipelines for government and defense customers.

This hands-on role spans software engineering, generative AI, application modernization, and DevSecOps. You will develop working software while creating controls to use AI coding agents safely in secure government environments.

Qualifications

• Strong software development experience, particularly with Python.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, or data-driven applications.
• Experience with generative AI, LLM applications, coding agents, or AI-assisted software development.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud-native development, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, automated testing, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of application architecture, secure coding, code review, debugging, and software supply-chain security.
• Ability to independently take an evolving technical problem from concept through implementation and demonstration.
• S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services, APIs, data workflows, and AI-enabled applications.
• Develop model-agnostic coding agents and LLM workflows with human approval, prompt history, auditability, and controlled tool access.
• Enforce architecture, UX, cybersecurity, testing, and deployment standards through automated policies and CI/CD controls.
• Generate and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, API documentation, and software bills of materials.
• Use AI-assisted analysis to assess and modernize application portfolios through replatforming, refactoring, retirement, preservation, or API wrapping.
• Integrate human- and AI-generated code into automated quality, functional, security, accessibility, and compliance testing.
• Build hardened AI development environments using approved tools, isolated execution, restricted permissions, and secure containers or virtual machines.
• Develop Platform One-compatible workflows that enforce Iron Bank images, approved cloud services, and Party Bus deployment requirements.
• Connect user feedback, behavior telemetry, logs, metrics, and platform context to agents that identify issues and prepare reviewed pull requests.
• Build platform-security automation that finds vulnerabilities and configuration risks, recommend fixes, and produces compliance evidence.
• Collaborate with software, platform, cybersecurity, and mission teams to move R&D prototypes toward operational use.

Skills

Python

Backend APIs

Generative AI

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security scanning

IaC

Cloud-native

Tools

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

LangChain

LlamaIndex

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Job description

Rackner, Inc. is seeking a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer to build mission-focused applications, AI-enabled development tools, and secure software-delivery pipelines for government and defense customers.

This hands-on role spans software engineering, generative AI, application modernization, and DevSecOps. You will develop working software while creating controls to use AI coding agents safely in secure government environments.