DevSecOps Engineer Principal

Job ID: 2614185

Location: Reston, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-01

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 an experienced DevSecOps (DSO) Engineer to support our Department of the Air Force customer in both development and engineering practice, and site reliability engineering and operations. The DevSecOps Engineer will build, manage, maintain and scale operational infrastructure and the supporting platforms and be a critical subject matter expert for consulting and implementation support.

SAIC is the premier Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) integrator with expertise in transforming legacy command and control systems into a modern hybrid cloud environment to accelerate decision making and increase mission success. This next generation approach shall employ the latest advancements across the technology spectrum and distributed architectures to deliver a cutting-edge approach.

We are seeking a high energy, detail-oriented and highly organized DSO to join our dynamic team. As a DSO, you will play a critical role in deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud development, staging, testing, and operational environments in support of our nation's most challenging national security missions. This position is located ONSITE in Reston, VA.

Responsibilities of the DevSecOps Engineer include:

• 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

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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• TS/SCI 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: $160,001 - $200,000. 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 .