Senior DevOps Engineer

engineeringjobs.net, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

engineeringjobs.net, Inc. seeks a DevSecOps Engineer to design, deploy, and support secure CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and observability in a DoD environment.

You will collaborate with Agile teams across Security, Cloud, and App Engineering to integrate security controls, automation, testing, and operational standards throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline with 8–12 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in Agile software development and rapid learning of new technologies.
• Proficiency with Git/Bitbucket and distributed version control.
• Strong communication and leadership within distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy automated CICD pipelines.
• Automate deployment configuration, testing, and infrastructure management.
• Support Kafka and Elastic clusters on AWS.
• Develop centralized dashboards for observability and reliability.
• Ensure DoD cybersecurity requirements in pipelines and deployments.

Skills

DevSecOps

CICD pipelines

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Ansible

Security compliance

AWS

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Master's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Artifactory

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Job description

Location Washington DC 100 Onsite Clearance Top SecretSCI Job Type Full time Target Salary Range 175000 200000

Position Overview

The DevSecOps Engineer designs develops deploys and supports secure CICD pipelines cloud native infrastructure observability solutions and automated application delivery capabilities within a DoD environment This role supports containerized applications Kafka and Elastic platforms AWS cloud environments security compliance infrastructure automation certificate lifecycle management and operational reliability The DevSecOps Engineer works within an Agile development environment and collaborates with DevOps Security Cloud and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls monitoring automation testing and operational standards throughout the software delivery lifecycle

Key Responsibilities

• CICD and Deployment Automation
• Develop automated CICD build and deployment pipelines using JenkinsCloudBees Artifactory KubernetesOpenShift Docker Ansible and Bitbucket
• Automate application deployment configuration testing and infrastructure management activities
• Develop automated tests using Ansible Selenium JMeter JUnit and other applicable tools
• Support reliable software delivery across development testing and production environments
• Cloud Container and Data Platform Support
• Assist with deployment configuration testing troubleshooting maintenance and upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments
• Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic Stack environment hosted within AWS
• Support containerized application environments using KubernetesOpenShift and Docker
• Troubleshoot and resolve installation infrastructure application and system issues
• Observability and Reliability Engineering
• Develop and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions that monitor application health performance availability security posture infrastructure utilization and cloud spend
• Implement proactive monitoring alerting and automation using metrics logs and traces
• Improve incident detection operational visibility root cause analysis and system reliability
• Proactively identify report monitor and mitigate technical risks
• Security and Compliance
• Configure applications and infrastructure to meet DoD cybersecurity requirements including applicable Security Technical Implementation Guides
• Collaborate with Security Cloud DevOps and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls and compliance monitoring into CICD pipelines and production environments
• Support remediation of security findings and configuration requirements
• Cloud Cost Optimization
• Analyze infrastructure and cloud resource utilization to identify cost optimization opportunities
• Implement rightsizing idle resource identification storage optimization compute optimization and FinOps practices
• Monitor cloud spend and support improvements to cost efficiency across environments
• Certificate Lifecycle Management
• Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations including provisioning renewal rotation and expiration monitoring
• Automate certificate management activities to support secure and uninterrupted service delivery
• Agile Collaboration and Technical Leadership
• Work as part of an Agile development team and participate in daily Scrum activities
• Demonstrate working software and completed capabilities to stakeholders
• Collaborate with geographically distributed team members customers and stakeholders to support project objectives
• Communicate technical status risks and recommendations to customers and program leadership
• Provide technical leadership and maintain detailed engineering and operational documentation

Qualifications

Education

EducationBachelors degree in a relevant technical discipline with 812 years of prior relevant experience; orMasters degree in a relevant technical discipline with 610 years of prior relevant experienceExperience

Experience

ExperienceExperience developing software within an Agile environment and rapidly learning new technologies RequiredExperience with distributed version control technologies such as Git and Bitbucket RequiredExperience developing software on Linux platforms RequiredKnowledge and application of software engineering principles theories and concepts Required

Skills

Ability to multitask self assign work and operate effectively within a geographically distributed team in a dynamic fast paced environment RequiredStrong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with virtual teams RequiredAbility to clearly communicate technical status and present information to customers and program leadership RequiredDemonstrated leadership skills RequiredStrong attention to detail and excellent organizational and documentation skills Required

Certifications

Current Security certification or equivalenthigher certification meeting applicable DoD IAT Level II requirements Required

Clearance

Active TSSCI security clearance Required

Other Requirements

Willingness and ability to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment Required

Preferred Qualifications

Full software development lifecycle experience including design development testing deployment and production supportSoftware development experience with Python Java and SQLExperience integrating JSONREST web services and parsing generating and validating JSONWorking knowledge of JavaScriptExperience designing developing and deploying software within cloud environments particularly AWSExperience designing building and deploying DevOps pipelines using Bitbucket Git Jenkins Artifactory Ansible or equivalent technologiesExperience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines within containerized environments using Kubernetes and DockerWorking knowledge of Git and development workflows using GitHub Bitbucket or equivalent platformsExperience with Atlassian tools including Bitbucket integrations with Jira and ConfluenceExperience working remotely with geographically dispersed teamsExperience working as part of an Agile software development teamFormal Agile methodology certification such as ScrumSoftware analysis and design experience including researching analyzing selecting and designing API integrationsExperience developing extensions or plugins for existing tools and componentsExperience creating software design artifacts including functional technical and architectural documentation test cases and installation deployment and configuration documentationExperience leading code document and technical artifact reviewsExperience developing and deploying software in DoD environments including DISA environmentsExperience building and deploying applications that meet DoD security standards security scanning requirements and applicable STIGs