DevSecOps Engineer - Expert

Dark Wolf Solutions•Herndon, VA

14d•Onsite

About The Position

Dark Wolf constructs and deploys data management and analytics solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. We’re proud to boast a world-class engineering team that thrives on rolling up their sleeves to solve your mission’s biggest challenges. Dark Wolf is seeking an Expert DevSecOps Engineer to serve as a technical anchor, architecting, maintaining, and scaling the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools, pipelines, and infrastructure used across the development lifecycle. In this role, you will lead the integration of security and operational resilience, ensuring total observability, automated compliance, and software assurance across complex systems. We are seeking a seasoned leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results while guiding high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced environments.

Requirements

Must be a US Citizen holding an active TS/SCI security clearance with an active Full-Scope Polygraph.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of progressive engineering experience, including deep expertise in CI/CD concepts, methodologies, and enterprise automated pipeline construction.
Deep experience managing enterprise Kubernetes clusters, authoring NetworkPolicies, implementing Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and enforcing runtime security (e.g., Falco).
Experience implementing Policy-as-Code architectures using tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA/Gatekeeper) or Kyverno to automate compliance enforcement before runtime.
Hands-on design and implementation of automated secret lifecycle solutions (e.g., HashiCorp Vault) integrating dynamically into pipelines and runtime platforms.
Proven capability building centralized telemetry stacks leveraging OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch.

Nice To Haves

High proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or C/C++.
Comprehensive experience with containerized software engineering practices and runtimes (Docker, Podman, OCI specs).
Proven experience working within and leading Agile/Scrum software development teams.
Architecture experience across major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Hands-on experience integrating modern security scanners (e.g., SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, OWASP ZAP, Fortify).
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or GIAC DevSecOps Automation (GCSA)

Responsibilities

Maintain, optimize, and scale production-grade CI/CD pipelines utilizing platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and custom workflow engines.
Ensure the seamless integration of automated security controls and scanning processes throughout the pipeline, including static code analysis (SAST), dynamic code analysis (DAST), dependency auditing, and vulnerability scanning.
Implement and maintain robust automated testing frameworks across unit testing, integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Collaborate directly with software development and security teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses in deployed software products.
Implement and enforce compliance with relevant federal, DoD, and organizational security regulations and standards.
Establish enterprise Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) module standards, direct multi-environment deployment frameworks, and lead response strategies for enterprise-level vulnerabilities.