Senior DevSecOps (Pipeline) Engineer

UNAVAILABLE; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join the growing DevSecOps practice. The role focuses on cloud and application development, building automation, and secure release processes.

You will automate, test, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, and mentor teammates in DevSecOps best practices. Ideal candidates have 5–7 years in cloud platforms and DevSecOps, with containerization, IaC, and strong collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 1+ relevant technical certification.
• 5+ years DevSecOps experience in Agile environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and orchestration tools.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code and automation.
• Proficiency with containerization and Kubernetes.
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understand stakeholder needs and convey to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop fixes
• Work with developers to ensure processes follow established practices
• Support enterprise Cloud apps via infrastructure as code and large-scale deployments
• Document as-is state, perform gap analysis, and produce options
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to modernize software systems
• Mentor team members and present status updates

Skills

CI/CD practices

Automation

Security

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms

Git

Test automation

Education

BS Degree in IT or related field

MS Degree

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

TravisCI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

Overview

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7 years experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation.

Responsibilities

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes

• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD

• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

• Act as an individual contributor and mentor team members

• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience

• At least 1 relevant technical certification

• 5 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages

• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment

• 3 Years of Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes

• 5 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration

• 5 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI

• 5 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration

• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines

Preferred:

• MS Degree

• Certifications:

• • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional

• • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert

• • SAFe DevOps Certification

• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including Selenium

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby

• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible