Senior DevSecOps Eng - CI Poly required with Security Clearance

Senior DevSecOps Eng Location: Chantilly, VA 20151 Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Poly (FS Poly may satisfy where accepted by the customer) Certifications: Required; Security+ CE at minimum where applicable, or other certification aligned to the assigned DoD 8140 work role

Position Summary
The DevSecOps Eng will design, automate, secure, and sustain CI/CD and DevSecOps capabilities for cloud-based applications and infrastructure. The role combines pipeline engineering, test automation, Infrastructure as Code, cloud architecture, containerization, security integration, and troubleshooting in a mission-focused DoD environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer, automate, and sustain secure CI/CD pipelines supporting iterative software, infrastructure, and application delivery.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab, Python, PowerShell, and Groovy.
• Integrate automated testing, security controls, configuration management, and deployment gates into DevSecOps workflows.
• Support cloud architecture, containerized environments, API gateways, catalogs, identity services, and platform components.
• Troubleshoot complex pipeline, application, infrastructure, and integration issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Develop robust system and integration test plans and validate releases against technical and security requirements.
• Decompose engineering work into Agile/Jira stories and contribute to sprint planning and delivery.
• Maintain technical documentation and apply disciplined engineering rigor across the development lifecycle. Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree (STEM degree not required for Test Engineer positions).
• Current DoD 8140 qualification/certification appropriate to the assigned DCWF work role and proficiency level. Acceptable examples for this position may include: CompTIA Security+ CE, CompTIA SecurityX (formerly CASP+), ISC2 CISSP, ISC2 CCSP, ISC2 CSSLP, CompTIA CySA+. Final acceptability is subject to the current DoD 8140 Qualification Matrix and prime contractor/customer work-role requirements.
• Current and active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph. Mandatory at time of submission.
• Expertise working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), test automation and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects.
• Solid ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor.
• Demonstrated experience with system testing and validation.
• Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills.
• Experience with Cloud architecture and system design (prefer AWS, but will consider Azure).
• Strong documentation skills.
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies.
• Ability to accurately decompose tasks for Jira stories.
• Developing integration interfaces using Python, PowerShell, and Groovy.
• Experience and comfort with Basic DevOps Tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab, Active Directory, IdAM, and LDAP).
• Familiarity with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes).
• Expertise with creating robust test plans.
• Ability to quickly get familiar with customer system security requirements and processes.
• Preparation and maintenance of system components.
• Experience with API Gateways, catalogs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) infrastructure and tools.
• Experience with Cloud solution optimization.
• Experience configuring and instrumenting Virtualization tools (Grafana, Splunk).
• Experience with ServiceNow.
• Other Cloud experience (Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM).
• Integration of virtualized applications and application streaming or layering techniques.
• Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud services, infrastructure and security domains.
• SharePoint admin systems engineering experience.
• IBM Enterprise Lifcycle Management systems engineering experience.
• TeamWork Cloud/Cameo systems engineering experience.
• Tableau systems engineering experience.

Core Competencies

• Systems thinking and engineering rigor
• Complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Secure cloud/enterprise engineering
• Agile and DevSecOps collaboration
• Technical documentation and communication Work Environment

Work is performed in support of a secure U.S. Government program and may require on-site access to controlled facilities, customer systems, and classified environments. The successful candidate must maintain all required clearance, access, cybersecurity certification, and program eligibility requirements throughout the assignment.
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