DevSecOps

SteerBridge•Vienna, VA

11d•$125,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

SteerBridge is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to own the security infrastructure and automation behind a mission-critical VA Disability Claims platform that supports Veterans and federal customers in AWS GovCloud. This role builds and runs the systems that security depends on: the log pipelines that feed our SIEM, the CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines that deploy every environment, and the scanning, patching, and security services deployed across our accounts. The engineer partners closely with our security team, which monitors the environment, triages alerts, and leads incident response. This role makes sure that team has complete, reliable data and working tools, and turns their requirements into code, guardrails, and pipelines that run automatically. The engineer will also work with cloud engineers, solutions and security architects, application developers, and program leadership. This is a hands-on role. The ideal candidate writes Terraform and pipeline code, onboards new log sources end to end, keeps security tooling deployed and healthy, and fixes the root cause when a pipeline, agent, or integration breaks. They are comfortable reviewing a merge request, debugging a broken data connector, and documenting how a control is implemented. This is a hybrid position based in Vienna, VA.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required for this position under applicable federal contract requirements.
5+ years of hands-on experience across DevOps, cloud security, or security engineering, preferably with AWS
Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform required; Terragrunt a plus) and policy-as-code and IaC security scanning (e.g. Checkov, tfsec)
Experience building and securing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred; GitHub Actions or similar acceptable), including integrated SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, and container image scanning (e.g., SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, Checkmarx) and secrets management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, KMS)
Experience building log pipelines into a SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel preferred; Splunk or Elastic acceptable), including onboarding sources and troubleshooting ingestion
Experience deploying AWS security services including CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, and IAM across multiple accounts
Experience deploying and securing containerized workloads (Docker with ECS, Fargate, or Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, least-privilege access, and zero-trust principles
Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills (diagrams, runbooks), with a methodical, root-cause approach and the ability to work across development, operations, and security teams to balance security with delivery speed

Nice To Haves

Experience in AWS GovCloud or other regulated or federal cloud environments
Familiarity with Vector or other log transformation tools
Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations, service control policies, or AWS landing zone patterns such as Trusted Secure Enclaves or Landing Zone Accelerator
Experience with Azure Monitor data collection (data collection endpoints and rules) and enough KQL to validate ingested data
Experience with Zscaler (ZPA and ZIA) or a comparable ZTNA or SASE platform, and with Palo Alto or similar next-generation firewalls
Experience deploying vulnerability scanning tools such as Tenable, and running AWS Systems Manager patching at scale
Familiarity with NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP, or federal ATO processes
Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty or AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end security log pipelines from AWS and SaaS sources into Microsoft Sentinel, including CloudTrail, VPC flow logs, DNS query logs, GuardDuty, WAF, identity provider, and zero-trust platform logs
Onboard new log sources using native delivery paths (data collection endpoints and rules, S3 and SQS connectors, vendor streaming) and validate that data lands, parses, and stays complete
Monitor pipeline health and ingestion gaps so a silent feed is caught and fixed before the security team loses visibility
Manage log retention, centralization, and immutability in line with federal logging requirements
Own the GitLab CI/CD pipelines that plan and apply Terraform and Terragrunt across multiple AWS GovCloud accounts and organizations
Build security gates into pipelines, including IaC scanning, secrets detection, container image scanning, and dependency and SBOM checks
Harden the pipelines themselves: least-privilege deployment roles, protected branches, approval rules, and state and secrets handling
Standardize container build and release practices for ECS and Fargate workloads, including immutable image tags, signed and scanned images, and ECR lifecycle policies
Maintain the security baseline across accounts, including IAM Identity Center permission sets, least-privilege roles, encryption, and network segmentation
Support zero-trust access (Zscaler ZPA and ZIA) and inline inspection (Palo Alto VM-Series) configuration and change management
Document how controls are implemented in infrastructure, and maintain runbooks that support NIST 800-53, RMF, and ATO activities