Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & Automation

Steampunk, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to drive our DevSecOps practice, delivering features for cloud and application development.

The role emphasizes security, automation, and scalable infrastructure in a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), hands-on CI/CD automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar, and experience implementing infrastructure as code with Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 5+ years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.
• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.
• 5+ years of application DevSecOps experience with development experience in an Agile environment.
• 3+ years of experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration.
• 5+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI , TravisCI.
• 5+ years of experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration.
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation.
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey this to developers.
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results.
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop software updates and 'fixes'.
• Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD.
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations.
• Leverage visualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems.
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor team members.
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided.
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members

Skills

Cloud platforms

Git repositories

Scripting languages

DevSecOps in Agile

Security testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Bachelor's degree non-IT + 2 yrs IT

Master's Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Concourse

Bash

Python

Groovy

Ruby

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Steampunk, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to drive our DevSecOps practice, delivering features for cloud and application development.

The role emphasizes security, automation, and scalable infrastructure in a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), hands-on CI/CD automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar, and experience implementing infrastructure as code with Kubernetes.