Senior DevSecOps Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

Darkwolfsolutions; Chantilly, Herndon (VA, VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Dark Wolf seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to manage and elevate CI/CD pipelines across the software lifecycle, ensuring end-to-end security, observability, and resilience. You will lead security-focused automation, testing, and compliance efforts in a fast-paced, high-performing team.

The role emphasizes collaboration with developers and security experts to implement policy-driven, multi-environment deployment strategies and robust monitoring and logging.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with Full-Scope Polygraph required.
• 7+ years of experience building automated CI/CD pipelines.
• 3+ years of infrastructure automation experience.
• Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency with Git, GitLab, Jira; familiarity with Jenkins.
• Experience with security tooling integrated into CI/CD (SAST, DAST, container scanning).
• Knowledge of GitOps, Kubernetes security, and policy-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Integrate security controls into pipelines (SAST/DAST, container scans).
• Develop robust test automation across units, integration, and UAT.
• Collaborate with teams to remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Enforce compliance with government and organizational security standards.
• Lead architecture and strategy for policy-as-code across multi-environment deployments.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Security integration

SAST/DAST

Vulnerability management

Git/GitLab/Jira

Linux administration

Kubernetes security

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Observability & telemetry

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

ArgoCD/Flux

Open Policy Agent / Kyverno

Vault / AWS Secrets Manager

Job description

Dark Wolf seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to manage and elevate CI/CD pipelines across the software lifecycle, ensuring end-to-end security, observability, and resilience. You will lead security-focused automation, testing, and compliance efforts in a fast-paced, high-performing team.

The role emphasizes collaboration with developers and security experts to implement policy-driven, multi-environment deployment strategies and robust monitoring and logging.