DevSecOps Engineer
KBR, Inc.•Lexington, MA
•$126,900 - $190,400•Hybrid
About The Position
KBR is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to contribute to the design, development, implementation, and testing of software for a series of large-scale communications system demonstrations. This role supports the Strategic and Long-Range Communications Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The work will be performed in a disciplined collaborative environment, employing modern programming practices. A hybrid work location is possible for this position, and services will be provided in support of several Laboratory and Government test sites.
Requirements
- Security Clearance: Secret
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5 to 10 years of experience in software development, systems engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles
- Expert level experience building container images with Podman, Docker, Kaniko, Skopeo.
- Familiarization with Universal Base Images (UBI).
- Familiarization with k3s and k8s desired.
- Expert-level experience building and optimizing build pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, including use of CI templates or CI components.
- Proficiency in implementing security scan execution policies and pipeline security scans.
- Familiar with Trivy, Semgrep, and Gemnasium (or other SBOM based dependency scans).
- Expert-level experience with package managers for Java, Python and Node.
- Proficient with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 or higher.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarization with k3s and k8s
Responsibilities
- Serve as the DevSecOps subject-matter expert and architectural authority
- Define standards, reference architectures, and best practices used across teams
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud and hybrid platforms
- Embed security controls directly into CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure‑as‑code, and Container platforms and deployment workflows
- Evaluate, select, and integrate DevSecOps tooling, including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, encryption, and identity integration, and container security
- Lead implementation of containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
- Integrate identity access management, secrets management, and encryption into pipelines and platforms
- Troubleshoot complex system, pipeline, and security issues across environments
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering, security, and platform teams
- Mentor engineers and elevate DevSecOps maturity across the organization
- Lead technical reviews, architecture discussions, and root cause analyses
- Communicate risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical leadership
- Actively maintain security vulnerability assessment databases for third-party application dependency scans and operating system level scans
- Actively monitor GitLab Security Dashboards for new vulnerabilities detected in software products and work with developers to remediate
- Maintain and enforce compliance frameworks across projects
- Maintain the software release pipeline
- Ensure base container images are regularly updated to include latest security patches and updates
Benefits
- Zero Harm culture
- People First company philosophy
- Team of teams philosophy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
