DevSecOps Security Engineer

About the position

The DevSecOps Security Engineer will design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools to automate complex cyber activities in a DoD cloud environment leveraging a DevSecOps pipeline. This role involves applying leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts, and contributing to the development of new principles and concepts. The engineer will apply advanced consulting skills and extensive technical expertise, along with a breadth of DoD and industry cybersecurity knowledge to each technical challenge. The position requires working on unusually complex problems and providing highly innovative solutions, operating with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision. Additionally, the engineer will mentor or supervise employees in both company and technical competencies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools for automating cyber activities in a DoD cloud environment.
• Apply advanced consulting skills and technical expertise to solve complex cybersecurity challenges.
• Mentor or supervise employees in technical competencies.
• Contribute to the development of new principles and concepts in cybersecurity.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in information technology and security engineering.
• 3+ years of experience providing automated cybersecurity solutions such as writing secure code or OWASP.
• Experience with application security solution configuration management, including policy creation and change management.
• Experience with DevSecOps capabilities such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Experience with tools such as Sonarqube, Twistlock, Anchore, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, and Keycloak.
• Experience establishing DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code (IaC) and policy as code.
• Experience with AWS services, including EKS, CloudFormation, Lambda, S3, and EC2.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Security+ Certification.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Windows system administration.
• Experience with container orchestration and management using Kubernetes.
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science.
• CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS Security Certification.

Benefits

• Health, life, and disability insurance.
• Financial and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave and professional development.
• Tuition assistance and work-life programs.
• Dependent care support.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance.