Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

United States Digital Space LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI) to join our Vulnerability Management team, embedded with engineering and operations to strengthen security posture across infrastructure, cloud, and business systems.

This role centers on building centralized security analytics and automated remediation workflows, with opportunities to leverage AI for prioritization and faster risk reduction. You will drive impactful improvements in security tooling and processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Security Engineering or DevSecOps in a large org.
• Strong coding/scripting for automation (Python, Bash, Go).
• Experience ETL/ELT pipelines for security data.
• Build scalable data pipelines for vulnerability data.
• Automation of security controls and cloud-first workflows.
• Experience with Terraform and CI/CD for security.
• Proactive risk identification and remediation planning.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME for automation of vulnerability scanning and reporting.
• Collaborate with SRE to manage update pipelines and baselines.
• Develop automation to scale security posture scanning and remediation.
• Lead design and integration of in-house security systems.
• Build automation and cloud infra using IaC to support AI workflows.
• Develop API/cloud integrations to improve detection and response.
• Write scripts and automations (Python-based) for security ops.
• Establish monitoring/alerting for posture, misconfigurations, threats.
• Identify and remediate security gaps; stay current on threats.

Skills

Security Engineering

DevSecOps

Python

Terraform

Cloud

SRE

CI/CD

Automation

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Qualys

TenableSC

Prisma Cloud

Wiz

Orca

Lacework

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

**Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

**Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. the company secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. the company secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Staff DevSecOps Engineer Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Staff DevSecOps Engineer with an issue management focus to be part of Security’s Vulnerability Management team. The team delivers foundational infrastructure vulnerability scanning and reporting capabilities that enable corporate engineering teams to operate securely, reliably, and at scale.

The Vulnerability Management team safeguards the company from threats and vulnerabilities that could disrupt our business or erode our customers’ trust. In this role, you will be embedded directly within our service environments, working side-by-side with engineering and operations teams to strengthen the company’s security posture across infrastructure, cloud, and business systems.

This is a tactical and strategic role; you will build centralized security posture analytics and reporting capabilities that aggregate findings, remediation status, and risk data across the company's security tools to improve visibility, accountability, and execution. The focus is on automating issue tracking and ownership assignment, identifying and routing unowned findings, partnering with remediation teams to accelerate closure, and developing remediation solutions where none currently exist. Longer term, leverage AI to simplify security posture management, increase trust in the data, automate analysis and prioritization, and provide actionable insights that help the team proactively manage security risk at scale.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical security expertise with the ability to troubleshoot in complex environments and drive measurable improvements across the security posture management lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing:

• Serve as a security subject matter expert (SME) for solution engineering and architecture reviews regarding the automation of vulnerability scanning and reporting.

• Collaborate with SRE to manage update pipelines and enforce compliance with baseline standards.

• Develop agentic automation to scale security posture scanning, reporting, issue remediation, and patch validation.

• Lead technical efforts to evaluate, design, and implement new in house developed security systems and feature enhancements.

• Build, maintain, and enhance custom automation and cloud infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools to support team or AI workflows and enforce security controls.

• Develop integrations with APIs, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and security infrastructure to improve vulnerability detection, response, and remediation.

• Write and maintain scripts and automations, with an emphasis on Python-based solutions, to streamline security operations. Mastery in Python, Bash, or Go, alongside Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for automated environment provisioning and security guardrails.

• Establish monitoring and alerting for security posture, misconfigurations, and threats across endpoints, SaaS, and cloud workloads.

• Proactively identify and remediate security gaps; stay updated on emerging threats, solutions, and tooling across the industry.

What you bring:

• 10+ years of experience in Security Engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure Security, or SaaS apps within a large corporate environment.

• 10+ years of strong coding and scripting experience, with a focus on building automation and custom tooling for security engineering teams.

• Experience developing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines for onboarding security data into the company’s security data lake.

• Ability to build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines to process vulnerability data.

• Proven track record of automating security controls and workflows using a cloud-first approach.

• Experience with Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools to orchestrate security infrastructure.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for security automation and drift management.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with technical staff, support teams, executive leadership, and external vendors.

• 2+ years of experience building engineering solutions within highly regulated environments is a plus.

• Experience with automating commercial or open-source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanners and reporting tools regarding Infrastructure/ IP based Assets, Containers, CSPM and CNAPP. Examples: Qualys, TenableSC, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Orca, Lacework, Paramify, Atlassian Jira, ServiceNow etc. are a plus.

• Familiarity with industry standards, frameworks and publications such as CVE, CVSS, EPSS, OWASP and CISA KEV catalog is a plus.

Additional requirements:

• U.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101, and be a U.S. person.

• U.S. person status - the employee must be either a U.S. citizen as defined in 42 U.S. Code § 9102; a natural person who is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3); or a U.S. national (i.e. includes citizens and non-citizens born in outlying possessions such as American Samoa and Swains Island), green card holders, refugees, and asylees. Working on a U.S. visa does NOT qualify as a U.S. person.

• Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly Compliance Expertise: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6)P25821_3544081

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, the company offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.the company.com/us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidate