Senior DevSecOps Engineer - DoD Cleared, Hybrid Ft Meade

Virtual Technologies Group; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Quotient (A VTG Company) is seeking a cleared DevSecOps Engineer to design, automate, and secure our CI/CD pipelines for defense-grade software. You will bridge development, security, and operations by leveraging Red Hat, Ansible, and scripting to maintain secure deployment workflows.

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer will oversee automated build, supply chain security, container hardening, and continuous delivery across defense cloud environments, aligning with DoDI 8430 and cATO criteria.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance (or higher).
• Local to Maryland; on-site at Ft. Meade as required.
• 3+ years in DevSecOps/DevOps or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Proven automation with Ansible.
• Automation scripting using Bash and Python.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience integrating SAST/DAST/container scanning in pipelines.

Responsibilities

• CI/CD Pipeline Architecture Design - declarative GitOps pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) integrating SAST, DAST, Container Scanning, Dependency Scanning, and SBOM generation.
• cATO & Governance Automation - Implement automated policy-as-code to satisfy continuous compliance gates under DoDI 8430 and OSD CIO cATO requirements.
• Iron Bank Container Hardening - Author hardened container definitions adhering to DoD standards; remediate CVEs; automate OpenSCAP/STIG validation.
• Software Development & API Engineering - Architect and refactor microservices using Go, Python, Java, or Rust; build automated tests following 12-factor principles.

Skills

Active DoD Secret clearance

RHEL administration

Ansible automation

Bash and Python scripting

GitLab CI / Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Security testing in pipelines

CI/CD design and deployment pipelines

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Quotient (A VTG Company) is seeking a cleared DevSecOps Engineer to design, automate, and secure our CI/CD pipelines for defense-grade software. You will bridge development, security, and operations by leveraging Red Hat, Ansible, and scripting to maintain secure deployment workflows.

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer will oversee automated build, supply chain security, container hardening, and continuous delivery across defense cloud environments, aligning with DoDI 8430 and cATO criteria.