Senior DevSecOps Engineer – CI/CD & Security Automation

Dark Wolf

Herndon (VA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 170,000

Full time

21 hours ago

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Job summary

Dark Wolf seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines across the development lifecycle, ensuring end-to-end security, observability, and resilience for deployed software. This technical leader will build secure automation, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and implement policy-as-code while navigating government-grade compliance.

Location is Chantilly/Herndon, VA, with a competitive salary.

Qualifications

US Citizenship with active TS/SCI and Full-Scope Polygraph required.
Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Engineering, or related field.
7+ years building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
3+ years of automation for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Maintain, optimize, and operate automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
Integrate SAST/DAST and container scanning into pipelines.
Develop robust automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, UAT).
Collaborate to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in apps/infrastructure.
Enforce and maintain compliance with government and organizational security standards.
Design Policy-as-Code workflows and lead security posture improvements across multi-environment platforms.