Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Appian) – Government Systems

Koniag Government Services, LLC

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Tuknik Government Services, LLC a Koniag Government Services company seeks a Lead DevSecOps Appian Engineer with a Top Secret clearance to support DoD work in the DC Metro area. This senior role leads CI/CD for enterprise apps, integrates security tooling, and ensures artifact integrity across environments.

The position offers comprehensive benefits and is an on-site/remote-eligible contingent role tied to a large government modernization program.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
Seven or more years of software engineering or DevSecOps experience, including leadership of CI/CD implementation for enterprise applications.
Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, artifact repositories, code-quality tools, security scanning, automated testing, and controlled deployment.
Experience packaging, deploying, and troubleshooting Appian applications or comparable low-code platforms.
U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.

Responsibilities

Design and operate the DevSecOps pipeline across development, test, staging, and production environments.
Implement artifact-specific controls for Appian packages, scripts, conventional code, containers, database changes, and documentation.
Configure GitLab branching, merge controls, runners, approvals, pipeline definitions, and protected release workflows.
Integrate Nexus, SonarQube, approved security scanners, SBOM generation, test tools, and evidence repositories into release gates.
Automate package inspection, configuration validation, environment promotion, deployment verification, rollback, and forward recovery.
Maintain build-once/promote-controlled-artifact practices and traceability from approved backlog item through production release.
Coordinate separate IL-5 and IL-6 pipeline configurations, credentials, repositories, test data, approvals, and evidence streams.
Troubleshoot pipeline failures and application deployment issues with Appian, configuration, test, security, database, and platform teams.
Publish pipeline health, deployment frequency, failure rate, recovery, test, and security metrics for Government review.
Coach development teams on secure coding, package design, automated testing, and release discipline.