Senior DevSecOps Engineer: GovCloud, Secure CI/CD

Darwin Recruitment; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision paid by the

Relocation support

401k matching

Holiday pay

Leave

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment seeks a DevSecOps Engineer in Los Angeles, onsite, with relocation support. You will own the software supply chain from commits to signed deployments in a hardened AWS GovCloud environment.

Role emphasizes GitLab administration, CI/CD pipelines, container image security, and IaC. You will implement security across the lifecycle and mentor teammates while collaborating with security and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, information technology or similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years in a DevSecOps/DevOps/SRE role.
• Hands on AWS experience, ideally including GovCloud.
• Significant GitLab administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of building, securing and managing container images and workflows.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Helm).
• US person, eligible for DoD Top Secret clearance; sponsorship available.

Responsibilities

• Administer GitLab and CI/CD platform, including runners, project/group structure, pipelines and security features.
• Build, maintain and optimise pipelines inside GovCloud air-gapped network.
• Own packaging and self-service deployment via AWS Service Catalog.
• Build, scan and publish OCI images to Amazon ECR with cross-account distribution.
• Integrate security tooling across the SDLC: SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning and SBOM generation.
• Work within a zero-trust, air-gapped network with platform and security teams.
• Support evidence collection and continuous monitoring aligned to NIST 800-171/800-53.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management and pipeline security using IaC.
• Support and mentor other engineers on DevSecOps practices.

Skills

GitLab administration

CI/CD pipelines

AWS GovCloud

Container image security

Infrastructure as Code

Security tooling

Zero trust / air-gapped networks

NIST 800-171/800-53

Mentoring engineers

DoD security clearance sponsorship

Education

Degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

GitLab

AWS

AWS GovCloud

Terraform / CloudFormation / Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwin Recruitment seeks a DevSecOps Engineer in Los Angeles, onsite, with relocation support. You will own the software supply chain from commits to signed deployments in a hardened AWS GovCloud environment.

Role emphasizes GitLab administration, CI/CD pipelines, container image security, and IaC. You will implement security across the lifecycle and mentor teammates while collaborating with security and platform teams.