DevSecOps Engineer

Unissant • Ashburn, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join their team in supporting modernization initiatives for a federal client. The ideal candidate will excel in DevSecOps automation, be proficient in various tools and technologies, and be committed to securing and streamlining software delivery and infrastructure. This is a highly technical position where individuals will be screened by peers in a technical review of skills and experience. Qualified applicants will be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information.

Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience in a related field.
• In-depth knowledge of DevSecOps principles, continuous integration, security automation, and compliance enforcement in federal or secure environments.
• Hands-on expertise in CI/CD automation using GitLab, Jenkins/Harness/ArgoCD Continuous Delivery (CD) and GitOps workflows deploying to Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with version control (Git), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and integrating security controls into delivery pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Dynatrace, ElasticSearch.
• Proficiency in managing AWS services like EC2, ECS, ECR, EKS, NLB, ALB, RDS, S3, Kafka, Cloud monitoring services, VPC and other network layers.
• Experience in migration of applications from on premises to cloud.
• Knowledge of OO programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python).
• Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines.
• Good understanding of cloud security and best practices.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• Must be a United States Citizen.
• Must have a current CBP BI clearance or be eligible to obtain one.
• Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for cloud and hybrid infrastructure provisioning.
• Prior experience supporting federal government agencies, particularly with Homeland security/ Customs & Border Protection.
• Familiarity with system modernization, supply chain risk analysis, or related domains.
• Knowledge of common cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Helm, and automated monitoring frameworks.
• AWS or DevOps/ DevSecOps certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Harness, enabling secure, efficient software delivery.
• Design and manage GitOps pipelines leveraging ArgoCD to ensure consistent, auditable, and declarative infrastructure and application deployments.
• Integrate security best practices into all phases of the DevOps lifecycle, performing automated security testing and compliance checks.
• Collaborate with software developers, data scientists, and system engineers to enforce DevSecOps standards, streamline deployment, and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Ensure the operational resiliency, scalability, and maintainability of cloud-based or hybrid environments supporting modernization goals.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance, security, and health of infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Maintain documentation, provide training, and promote best practices among multidisciplinary teams.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD, testing, and operations infrastructure.
• Develop custom tools and automation through programming and scripting.
• Pro-actively identify areas to drive automation across platforms.
• Develop innovative strategies, processes, automation, fail-over experience.
• Design and setup of new large cloud clusters.
• Provide support to implement Change/Service Requests per application needs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, primarily using Terraform.

Benefits

• Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary.
• Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.
• Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.
• Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior