DevSecOps Engineer

Ironclad Defense Works•Norfolk, VA

18h•$110,000 - $149,000•Onsite

About The Position

Support NATO HQ SACT by deploying and operating secure, resilient containerized services. You will automate infrastructure, implement CI/CD and observability practices, and embed security and compliance into delivery pipelines for mission-critical workloads.

Requirements

4+ years with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
4+ years designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security checks.
Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Pulumi).
Experience securing workloads in hybrid/public cloud environments.
Experience with observability/SRE tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry).
Experience with zero-trust, policy-as-code, and secrets management (e.g., OPA/Kyverno, Vault/Key Vault/KMS).
Citizen of a NATO member nation; active or eligible for NATO/National SECRET (or higher) clearance; fluent English.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting high-throughput service-oriented architectures.
Familiarity with supply-chain security practices (SBOM, CIS benchmarks, SLSA).
Experience working within international or defense security governance.

Responsibilities

Deploy and operate containerized services using orchestration frameworks for scalability and resilience.
Automate environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management.
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security validation.
Deploy and monitor workloads in cloud and hybrid environments (AWS/Azure/GCP/VMware/OpenStack).
Implement SRE and observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) to improve reliability.
Design secure networking and service meshes (TLS, Istio/Linkerd, API gateways).
Apply zero-trust principles, compliance automation, and modern secrets/IAM controls.

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