Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Secret

Parsons; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer in Maryland to lead secure automation across the software lifecycle. You will drive CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and container platforms while collaborating with cross‑functional teams on secure software delivery.

Key duties include translating requirements into designs, mentoring engineers, and maintaining robust monitoring and incident response. DoD‑level security is a focus, with strong emphasis on automation and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps/DevSecOps or related software/infra disciplines.
• 5+ years production CI/CD experience with pipelines and security validation.
• Experience with Java, Python, Go, or similar languages for automation.
• Hands-on Terraform, Ansible, Git, and artifact management tools.
• Experience with SAST, SBOMs, container scanning, and secure build/release.
• Proficiency with AWS and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication and ability to lead cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on technical design and secure automation across the software lifecycle.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and sustain production applications and services.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines including security validation, artifact management, deployments and rollbacks.
• Provision cloud infra with IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Operate secure, scalable container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and incident response.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Cloud engineering

SRE

Linux/Unix admin

Team leadership

Security automation

Observability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT or equivalent

Master's degree (desired)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git/GitLab

Kubernetes

Docker

Artifactory/Nexus

CloudFormation

Job description

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Job Description:

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer at Parsons, you will provide hands‑on technical leadership in the design, development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of software and infrastructure supporting DCDC missions. You will be responsible for driving secure automation, improving developer and operator workflows, and establishing reliable and repeatable delivery practices across the software lifecycle.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaborate with DCDC customers and cross‑functional teams to gather requirements, define technical solutions, and deliver secure software and data‑streaming capabilities.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor for DevSecOps , cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, containers, Infrastructure as Code, and software‑supply‑chain security.
• Translate requirements into software, system, infrastructure, and deployment designs across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production applications and services using Java , Rust, Go, YAML, Python , or comparable programming languages.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines that automate builds, testing, security validation, artifact management, deployment, approvals, rollback, and release processes.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and comparable Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Design and operate secure, scalable, and highly available containerized platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, RKE2, or comparable technologies.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and troubleshooting processes for AWS applications, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Integrate DevSecOps and software‑supply‑chain security controls, including vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, container security, SBOMs, artifact provenance, and image signing.
• Lead technical reviews and customer discussions; mentor engineers; coordinate engineering teams; and develop architecture, operational, disaster‑recovery, and knowledge‑transfer documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps , software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of production CI/CD experience, including pipeline design, automated testing, security validation, artifact management, deployment, release management, and operational support.
• Experience developing production software and automation using Java, Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable technologies.
• Demonstrated technical capability in software delivery, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, or related initiatives.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Git, GitLab, Artifactory, Nexus, and comparable tools.
• Experience with DevSecOps and software‑supply‑chain security, including SAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, secrets detection, vulnerability management, SBOMs, artifact validation, and secure build and release processes.
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix administration and AWS cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, security, automation, logging, monitoring, and operations.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized applications and highly available distributed systems using Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with observability and troubleshooting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or comparable technologies.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions, advise customer and program leadership, mentor engineers, and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Active Secret clearance is required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a related technical field.
• Experience with Rancher, RKE2, vSphere, Kubernetes, hybrid‑cloud, virtualization, AWS GovCloud, DoD Impact Level 5 or 6, or other regulated environments.
• Knowledge of DoD CIO Kubernetes reference architectures, STIGs, Platform One, Iron Bank, container hardening, and secure Kubernetes operations.
• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes platforms in restricted, disconnected, air‑gapped, or limited‑connectivity environments.
• Experience with GitOps , Helm, Operators, admission controls, policy enforcement, cluster lifecycle management, SRE, platform‑as‑a‑product, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, inc