DevSecOps Engineer Principal

Job ID: 2618203
Location: Reston, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-20
Category: Software
Subcategory: DevSecOps
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a high energy, detailed-oriented, and experienced DevSecOps (DSO) Engineer to support our Department of the Air Force customer. As a DSO, you will play a critical role in configuring, deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud environments in support of our nation's most challenging national security missions. This position is located ONSITE in Reston, VA.
Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure cloud products and services within a cloud-based environment to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible.
• Maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build/ integration infrastructure.
• Provide Source Control Management/Documentation, create and maintain fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments; write, build and deploy scripts.
• Support CI/CD tools integration, operations, change management, and maintenance. Support full automation of CI/CD testing.
• Support policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
• Enable successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production.
• Work closely with software developers, production support, and information security to automate and support infrastructure and tooling in cloud-based platforms.
• Provide guidance and apply agile and DevOps/DevSecOps practices to streamline product delivery and reliable operations of product.
• Continuously identify opportunities to automate and increase efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
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• Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI.
• Proven background working in DevOps software development environments with specific experience and knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
• Software Program Management / Acquisition.
• Agile software development with Scrum or Kanban.
• Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence.
• CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, or MS Azure.
• Cloud - Platform One.
• Cross Domain Solutions.
• C-ATO.
• Multi-Level Security Networks (MLS / MILS).
• Containerization with Docker or Red Hat Podman.
• Container management with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Security automation.

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .