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DevSecOps Engineer

Lei*** · Bethesda, MD, United States
Bethesda, MD, United StatesExp: 2+ yrs69,550-125,725 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
69,550-125,725 USD/yearly
Location
Bethesda, MD, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa

Job summary

This role builds and operates DevSecOps platforms and configuration management practices for teams developing U.S. Navy simulation and training systems, including air and missile defense and anti-submarine warfare trainers. The work spans Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, on-premises cloud environments, CI/CD software factories, and automated security and compliance controls, using tools such as GitLab, Terraform or OpenTofu, Ansible, and Linux to improve delivery and system quality.

Benefits

Health and wellness programsIncome protectionPaid leaveRetirement benefits

Qualifications

  • U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance; employment requires an interim Secret clearance.
  • At least 2 years of experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
  • Professional experience with Kubernetes, Git, Istio or a similar service mesh, Helm, Ansible, OpenTofu or Terraform, and Docker or Podman.
  • Experience administering and troubleshooting RHEL or Rocky Linux systems.
  • Experience designing, deploying, securing, or operating AWS infrastructure.
  • Experience administering, integrating, or troubleshooting software factory applications.
  • Practical experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, container delivery, automated security testing, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and continuous authorization.
  • Experience writing automation in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
  • Ability to diagnose complex issues across infrastructure and application layers and communicate technical concepts clearly.
  • Must hold or be able to obtain Security+, an entry-level Linux certification, and AWS Cloud Practitioner or an equivalent entry-level AWS certification.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes platforms and containerized applications.
  • Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and service mesh configurations.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and system configuration with OpenTofu or Terraform and Ansible.
  • Build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline components.
  • Administer and integrate software factory applications, including GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Jira.
  • Integrate security scanning, compliance checks, and software supply chain controls into development workflows.
  • Support continuous authorization, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and compliance evidence collection.
  • Administer and troubleshoot RHEL or Rocky Linux systems and AWS infrastructure.
  • Lead troubleshooting across platforms, pipelines, networking, authentication, and deployments.
  • Collaborate on architecture reviews, code reviews, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and operating procedures.

Skills

AnsibleArtifactoryAWSBashConfluenceDockerEKSFalcoGitGitLabGrafanaHelmIAMIstioJenkinsJiraKeycloakKubernetesLinuxLokiOpenTofuPodmanPrometheusPythonRHELSonarQubeTerraformCloudWatchGitLab CI

Certifications

Security+Linux+LPI Linux EssentialsAWS Cloud PractitionerKubernetes certificationNetwork+CCNA

Degrees

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer scie

Industry

DefenseSimulationTrainingU.S. Navy

Security clearance

Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. government security clearanceInterim Secret clearance required for employment

Relocation

No