Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Secure Systems & CI/CD

Cyber Defense Technologies; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

Retirement plans

Learning & development

Wellness programs

Job summary

Cyber Defense Technologies (CDT) is seeking a Senior Systems Security Engineer to integrate development, security, and operations across our environments, delivering scalable, secure systems with a strong DevSecOps focus.

The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s degree in a technical field, 4+ years in information security, has RMF/STIGs/ACAS/HBSS experience, and active U.S. citizenship with a Secret clearance (TS possible). Travel may be CONUS-based as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years in information security roles (ops, vulnerability, testing, patching, logs).
• Experience with RMF, Windows/Linux, STIGs, ACAS, HBSS.
• US Citizenship with active Secret clearance (TS possible).
• Ability to work independently and drive solutions end-to-end.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure automation for dev, test, and production environments.
• Manage infrastructure security and monitoring systems.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Identify and remediate system vulnerabilities and issues.
• Collaborate to improve tools, processes, data security.
• Create and maintain security-related documentation.
• Stay current with security threats and solutions.
• Support incident response and problem management with containment actions.
• Develop strategies for security and scalability.

Skills

DevSecOps

Security operations

Vulnerability management

Incident response

CI/CD pipelines

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT/Cybersecurity

CISSP certification

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

RMF

STIGs

ACAS

HBSS

NIST

Azure

AWS

Job description

Cyber Defense Technologies (CDT) is seeking a Senior Systems Security Engineer to integrate development, security, and operations across our environments, delivering scalable, secure systems with a strong DevSecOps focus.

The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s degree in a technical field, 4+ years in information security, has RMF/STIGs/ACAS/HBSS experience, and active U.S. citizenship with a Secret clearance (TS possible). Travel may be CONUS-based as needed.