Senior Cybersecurity Software Engineer: Kubernetes

CACI International Inc; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 113,200 - 237,800; Full time

Job summary

CACI is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Software Engineer to join the Spectral Cyber team, supporting Navy mission software development and secure delivery. Strong Kubernetes security, IaC focus, and automation are required for the enterprise security stack.

The role emphasizes Zero Trust architecture, RMF automation, and collaboration across software, IT, DevOps, and engineering teams to continuously improve security postures across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, software or related field.
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Responsibilities

• Automate cybersecurity architecture using IaC for on‑prem and distributed platforms with end‑to‑end Zero Trust.
• Engineer and integrate security controls into IaC, PaaS, and mission applications for IAM, encryption, logging, and monitoring compliance.
• Streamline hardening of IaC, PaaS, and mission applications per STIG/SRGs and CIS benchmarks.
• Support secure deployments of containerized platforms and mission applications.
• Coordinate and engineer cybersecurity tools pipeline integration, enforcement, and automate tool outputs into dynamic dashboards.
• Automate RMF security control implementation into IaC, PaaS, and mission applications to modernize and rapidly produce evidence for continuous delivery.
• Modernize vulnerability remediation outcomes and engineer continuous system resiliency.
• Write Ansible playbooks and scripts; peer review of code commits.
• Ensure end‑to‑end patch management, SBOM, RBOM, and artifact generation.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to improve security across SDLC.

Skills

Cyber engineering

Zero Trust

Automation

Scripting

Threat modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, cyber engineering, systems engineering, information technology, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

ArgoCD

Terraform

Jenkins

SAST/DAST/SCA tools

Job description

CACI is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Software Engineer to join the Spectral Cyber team, supporting Navy mission software development and secure delivery. Strong Kubernetes security, IaC focus, and automation are required for the enterprise security stack.

The role emphasizes Zero Trust architecture, RMF automation, and collaboration across software, IT, DevOps, and engineering teams to continuously improve security postures across the SDLC.