Lead DevSecOps Appian Engineer

Koniag Government Services•Washington, DC

About The Position

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Lead DevSecOps Appian Engineer to support a U.S. Army customer on a large-scale contracting systems modernization and automation program. The role leads the automated delivery path for Appian packages, conventional code, database changes, interfaces, security evidence, and test results. It builds a repeatable promotion process that preserves artifact integrity and gives the Government visibility into release quality and approvals. The position requires a Top Secret security clearance and supports a government customer in the DC Metro area. This is a contingent recruiting profile for a future new business opportunity; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing depend on final contract authorization. The Lead DevSecOps Appian Engineer designs and operates DevSecOps pipelines across development, test, staging, and production environments. The role configures GitLab CI/CD and integrates artifact repositories, code-quality tools, approved security scanners, SBOM generation, automated testing, and evidence repositories into release gates. It automates package inspection, configuration validation, environment promotion, deployment verification, rollback, and forward recovery, while maintaining controlled-artifact promotion practices and traceability through production release. The position coordinates separate IL-5 and IL-6 pipeline configurations, credentials, repositories, test data, approvals, and evidence streams. It troubleshoots pipeline and application deployment issues with Appian, configuration, testing, security, database, and platform teams; publishes pipeline and release metrics for Government review; and coaches development teams on secure coding, package design, automated testing, and release discipline. Work may be remote when authorized, at Government facilities, or in controlled office and data-center environments. Work involving classified information or SIPRNet must take place at a Government-approved secure location using authorized systems. The role generally supports Government business hours, with occasional release, incident-response, maintenance-window, or approved travel requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
Seven or more years of software engineering or DevSecOps experience, including leadership of CI/CD implementation for enterprise applications.
Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, artifact repositories, code-quality tools, security scanning, automated testing, and controlled deployment.
Experience packaging, deploying, and troubleshooting Appian applications or comparable low-code platforms.
U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders.
Ability to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
Top Secret security clearance is specified in the position overview.
GitLab CI/CD and release automation.
Appian deployment and package governance.
Security scanning, SBOM, and evidence automation.
Artifact integrity and configuration control.
Technical leadership and troubleshooting.

Nice To Haves

Current Appian developer certification.
GitLab, cloud, security, or DevSecOps certification.
Experience operating CI/CD inside Army DSOP, cArmy, SIPRNet, DLA PIEE, or another DoD enclave.
Experience integrating Appian-native testing with Selenium, FitNesse, API testing, and Locust performance testing.

Responsibilities

Design and operate the DevSecOps pipeline across development, test, staging, and production environments.
Implement artifact-specific controls for Appian packages, scripts, conventional code, containers, database changes, and documentation.
Configure GitLab branching, merge controls, runners, approvals, pipeline definitions, and protected release workflows.
Integrate Nexus, SonarQube, approved security scanners, SBOM generation, test tools, and evidence repositories into release gates.
Automate package inspection, configuration validation, environment promotion, deployment verification, rollback, and forward recovery.
Maintain build-once/promote-controlled-artifact practices and traceability from approved backlog item through production release.
Coordinate separate IL-5 and IL-6 pipeline configurations, credentials, repositories, test data, approvals, and evidence streams.
Troubleshoot pipeline failures and application deployment issues with Appian, configuration, test, security, database, and platform teams.
Publish pipeline health, deployment frequency, failure rate, recovery, test, and security metrics for Government review.
Coach development teams on secure coding, package design, automated testing, and release discipline.
Protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
Maintain accurate work records in approved systems.