DevSecOps Engineer

Job ID: 2614651

Location: North Charleston, SC, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-20

Category: Software

Subcategory: DevSecOps

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description
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SAIC is seeking DevSecOps Engineer to join our team. The DevSecOps Engineer can work at one of the following SAIC locations: San Diego, CA, Charleston, SC, or Panama City, FL.

Role Overview:

• Role: Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation) for both connected and air-gapped environments.
• Core Tooling: GitLab for source control and pipelines; Ansible as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments; MkDocs/ADRs for documentation.
• Platform Stack: RKE2/Kubernetes on VMware/vSphere/NSX-T, with Rancher, Cilium networking, MetalLB/Traefik ingress, cert-manager, and BIND/DNS; Harbor as the container registry.
• Delivery Expectations: trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans, evidence (JUnit/SBOM/scan) attached to every change, no manual "click-ops."
• Supply Chain and Air-Gap Hygiene: checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, RPM/PyPI mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments.
• Security and Identity: secret hygiene by default, Keycloak/SSO integration familiarity, and comfort with vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).

Qualifications

Education Requirements:

• Bachelors degree and five (5) years experience; Four (4) years' experience can be considered in lieu of degree.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must possess an active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret / SCI clearance; ship required.

Required Skills:

• Strong background deploying and managing Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience utilizing Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
• Familiarity with Keycloak and SSO itegration.

Desired Skills:

• Load balancer/VIP experience (Keepalived, VyOS or Palo Alto), RHEL/WSUS patching familiarity, and strong documentation habits for handoffs and audits.

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 .