Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead

DecisionPoint | Cortek; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead to maintain secure and repeatable software delivery processes. You will manage CI/CD pipelines, automate checks, and apply infrastructure-as-code to ensure consistency across development, testing, and production environments.

The role is hands-on and technical, collaborating with developers, cybersecurity, and operations to support controlled releases.

Qualifications

• Six+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Experience implementing automated testing.
• Experience configuring secure application environments.
• Experience artifact management and controlled promotion.

Responsibilities

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for builds, tests, packaging, and deployment.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code definitions and environment configurations.
• Promote consistent configurations across environments.
• Integrate automated checks and security into pipelines.
• Configure quality gates and artifact promotion controls.
• Coordinate releases with multiple teams.
• Maintain deployment scripts and rollback automation.
• Document procedures and facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Provide technical coordination for DevSecOps work and delivery priorities.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Automated testing

Security integration

Cloud platforms

Scripting

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Software/Systems Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead to maintain secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery processes supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position will maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automated checks, application environment configurations, artifact promotion, and deployment and rollback automation. The lead will apply infrastructure as code and automated testing to improve consistency across development, testing, and production environments. The Systems Engineering/DevSecOps Lead will collaborate with software developers, architects, testers, cybersecurity personnel, release management staff, and operations teams to resolve delivery issues and support controlled releases. This is a hands‑on technical lead role aligned with the Journeyman labor category. This position is remote, with Chicago‑area candidates preferred. By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting application builds, automated checks, testing, packaging, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code definitions and application environment configurations.
• Promote consistent, reproducible configurations across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Integrate automated functional, integration, regression, and approved security checks into delivery pipelines.
• Configure pipeline quality gates and retain execution results supporting release decisions.
• Maintain artifact repositories, versioning, dependencies, and promotion controls.
• Ensure promoted artifacts remain traceable to source revisions, build records, test results, and approvals.
• Develop and maintain deployment scripts, environment validation checks, and rollback automation.
• Coordinate release execution with development, testing, cybersecurity, configuration management, and operations personnel.
• Validate application health and expected behavior following deployment or rollback.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, build errors, configuration inconsistencies, artifact issues, and deployment problems.
• Implement approved access controls, service accounts, secrets handling, and logging for delivery tools and environments.
• Coordinate remediation of issues identified by automated checks and security reviews.
• Maintain version‑controlled pipeline definitions, infrastructure code, scripts, and configuration records.
• Document build procedures, environment dependencies, deployment instructions, rollback steps, and troubleshooting guidance.
• Provide technical coordination for DevSecOps work, including dependencies, impediments, and delivery priorities.
• Support release‑readiness reviews, operational handoffs, and knowledge transfer.
• Improve delivery reliability and efficiency using pipeline metrics, incident findings, and lessons learned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Minimum of six years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
• Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Experience implementing or integrating automated testing.
• Experience configuring and supporting secure application environments.
• Experience with artifact management and controlled artifact promotion.
• Experience developing or maintaining deployment and rollback automation.
• Ability to maintain automated checks and application environment configurations.
• Relevant cloud or DevOps certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software delivery environments.
• Experience with approved CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or comparable infrastructure and configuration automation tools.
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native application deployment.
• Experience integrating code analysis, dependency scanning, secrets detection, or container security checks into pipelines.
• Experience with artifact repositories, package registries, and software supply-chain traceability.
• Familiarity with deployment strategies that support controlled promotion, recovery, and reduced service disruption.
• Experience coordinating release activities across multiple development teams.
• Strong scripting, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and cross-team communication skills.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.

Pay Transparency Policy

In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information

By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.