DevSecOps Engineer

Description

The team builds and runs the infrastructure for a microservice-based application platform, working across development and operations.

You will work with software engineers, security staff, and platform stakeholders to automate and secure how applications are built, tested, deployed, and run in several environments.

The role suits someone who works comfortably across development and infrastructure, can troubleshoot distributed systems, builds security into each stage of delivery, and helps teams ship reliable software without adding needless operational overhead.

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of a larger IT firm. It delivers agile IT and intelligence solutions and combines small-team flexibility with global scale.

Job family: Cyber and IT Risk Management. Public Trust or other clearance: None. Requisition type: Regular.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines that automate application builds, tests, security scans, packaging, and deployment.
• Create and maintain containerized development and deployment workflows with Docker.
• Deploy, configure, and run applications and supporting services on Kubernetes.
• Write and maintain Helm charts and reusable deployment configurations for microservices and platform components.
• Set up and maintain GitOps deployment workflows, for example with Argo CD.
• Automate infrastructure, environment configuration, application deployment, and day-to-day operations.
• Build security controls and automated security testing into the development lifecycle, including dependency, container, source code, and vulnerability scanning.
• Work with engineering teams to find and fix vulnerabilities in application dependencies, container images, base images, and deployment configurations.
• Support secure service-to-service communication, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and zero trust architecture patterns.
• Improve observability through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, health monitoring, and alerting.
• Troubleshoot application, container, Kubernetes, networking, and deployment problems across development and operations.
• Help developers make applications easier to deploy, more reliable, better configured, and ready to operate.
• Maintain reusable platform tooling and documentation that simplifies common development and deployment tasks.
• Take part in architecture and engineering reviews with a focus on security, reliability, automation, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years in DevOps, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a similar role.
• 8+ years of related experience is also listed as a requirement.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux-based development and operations environments.
• Strong experience with Docker and building container-based applications.
• Experience running applications on Kubernetes.
• Experience writing and maintaining Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI/CD or a similar platform.
• Experience with GitOps deployment practices and tools such as Argo CD.
• Familiarity with container, dependency, and vulnerability scanners and software supply chain security.
• Understanding of networking, TLS, DNS, ingress, service discovery, authentication, authorization, and secrets management in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with observability tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and application health monitoring.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and modern Agile and DevOps engineering practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance is required. Candidates must also be able to obtain it.
• US citizenship is required because of US Government contract requirements.
• Ideal candidate would have experience with: building and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines that automate builds, testing, security scanning, packaging, and deployment.
• Ideal candidate would have experience with: containerized workflows and operating microservice applications across Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ideal candidate would have experience with: reusable Helm charts and GitOps workflows using GitLab CI/CD and Argo CD.
• Ideal candidate would have experience with: vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and other security controls across the delivery lifecycle.
• Ideal candidate would have experience with: working alongside software engineers, security teams, and platform stakeholders to improve automation, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Certifications: None required.

Conditions

Location: Fort Bragg, NC, USA. The role is onsite there on a hybrid schedule of three days on site.

Full-time, 40 scheduled hours per week. No travel required.

Only US citizens are eligible, due to US Government contract requirements.

Hiring includes an identity verification step using biometrics and AI. Candidates must be on camera for virtual interviews.

Equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered regardless of disability or protected veteran status.

Benefits

• Pay range: $123,250 to $166,750. The final salary depends on experience, geographic location, and possibly contract requirements, and may fall outside this range. It is not a guarantee.
• Medical plans, some with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) with pre-tax and post-tax contributions up to IRS limits and a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible, plus vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel accident insurance, provided or available.
• An AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities, and an internal mobility team to help you reach your goals.
• Recognised as a military-friendly workplace with a culture of innovation.