Security Focused DevOps Engineer - Hybrid On-Prem & Cloud

Cubic Corporation; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k retirement plan with companymatch

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Cubic Corporation is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and secure scalable CI/CD pipelines across on‑prem and cloud environments in Ashburn, VA. This full‑time hybrid role emphasizes automation, security, and reliability in mission‑critical applications.

The ideal candidate has strong IaC, AWS, and observability skills, plus the ability to collaborate with software engineers and DevOps peers to drive secure, efficient operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or 3+ years with a Master’s degree.
• On-Prem Linux administration and VMware ESXi experience with patching and hardening.
• AWS cloud experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and configuration tools (Ansible/Chef).
• CI/CD experience with AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners.
• Experience with observability stacks and security/audit logging.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain secure, automated infrastructure for on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Implement and manage configuration management to ensure consistency across servers and applications.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and artifact repositories.
• Apply security best practices, compliance standards and system hardening.
• Build observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting) for all environments.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to foster a security‑first DevSecOps culture.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

AWS services

Security practices

Observability

Automation

Python scripting

Linux administration

DevSecOps

Audit logging

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Nexus

Job description

Cubic Corporation is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and secure scalable CI/CD pipelines across on‑prem and cloud environments in Ashburn, VA. This full‑time hybrid role emphasizes automation, security, and reliability in mission‑critical applications.

The ideal candidate has strong IaC, AWS, and observability skills, plus the ability to collaborate with software engineers and DevOps peers to drive secure, efficient operations.