Staff DevSecOps Engineer: CI/CD & Security Pipelines

Arete Associates; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

401(k) matching

Continuing Education Assistance

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance and LTD

Job summary

Arete Associates seeks a DevSecOps Engineer to keep our GitLab environment healthy, fast, and secure. You will own pipelines, implement security scans, and unblock developers while documenting best practices. This onsite role in Falls Church collaborates with Cyber Security and IT, with occasional travel and after-hours support.

You’ll automate, optimize, and scale CI/CD, manage runners and registries, and administer Linux systems in a security‑minded DevSecOps team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevSecOps experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building, debugging, and optimizing GitLab CI pipelines.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and container lifecycles.
• Ability to integrate security tooling into pipelines and write documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day health of self-hosted GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build reusable pipeline templates and project scaffolding.
• Integrate SAST/DAST and SBOM scanning into pipelines.
• Provide developer enablement, documentation, and runbooks.

Skills

DevSecOps

GitLab CI/CD

Linux administration

Bash/Python/PowerShell

CI/CD pipelines

Security tooling integration

Documentation writing

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Artifactory

Terraform

Job description

Arete Associates seeks a DevSecOps Engineer to keep our GitLab environment healthy, fast, and secure. You will own pipelines, implement security scans, and unblock developers while documenting best practices. This onsite role in Falls Church collaborates with Cyber Security and IT, with occasional travel and after-hours support.

You’ll automate, optimize, and scale CI/CD, manage runners and registries, and administer Linux systems in a security‑minded DevSecOps team.