Senior DevSecOps Engineer

eSimplicity•Washington, DC

1d•$106,300 - $136,000•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a hands-on DevSecOps Engineer to join a cross-functional, entrepreneurial, collaborative team dedicated to solving difficult problems for our clients. This individual will have experience with RMF through implementation and customization of controls in a DevSecOps pipeline and tech stack. Additionally, this individual will have experience implementing controls as applicable and understand how they will affect the tech stack within the DevSecOps pipeline. The role is primarily focused on being the DevSecOps engineer within the product team but must be able to ensure that the security controls are in place and work with the security team to validate controls and evidence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and four (4) years of specialized information technology experience; OR In lieu of bachelor’s degree, eight (8) years of relevant information technology experience, with at least four (4) years in a specialized experience
Must be a United States citizen
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
Hands-on experience building and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines, including automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, artifact signing, and release gates.
Experience with security automation tools such as SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning, IaC scanning, secrets scanning, SBOM generation, and policy-as-code.
Ability to write scripts, pipeline logic, configuration, or automation in support of security and compliance objectives.
Hands-on experience securing AWS cloud environments including EKS, S3, VPC, Security Hub, Inspector, WAF, and Secrets Manager
Experience producing security and compliance evidence for federal environments, including continuous monitoring artifacts, control evidence, vulnerability reports, and audit-ready documentation
Understanding of the Authority to Operate (ATO) process, including POA&Ms and continuous monitoring.
Understanding of federal security frameworks such as NIST RMF
Experience working on a fully integrated Agile product team
Strong documentation and problem-solving skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence

Nice To Haves

Experience as a contractor or government employee.
Direct experience with the Department of State is a plus

Responsibilities

Partner with the development team to implement secure engineering patterns, maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, and remediate vulnerabilities, including contributing code, configuration, pipeline changes, and infrastructure updates where appropriate.
Design and maintain security gates for code quality, dependency scanning, container image scanning, secrets detection, infrastructure misconfiguration, and policy compliance.
Support Kubernetes and container security for AWS EKS environments, including image hardening, admission controls, runtime monitoring, network policies, workload identity, secrets management, and least-privilege access patterns.
Support controls for new tooling/integration usage, the handling of sensitive data, and access controls.
Help define and enforce secure-by-default engineering standards across the application, infrastructure, and delivery pipeline.
Help drive the move toward ATO and near-real-time compliance.
Implement monitoring of production runtime environments for vulnerabilities and compliance drift and make security and compliance reporting available on demand.
Translate security findings into actionable engineering work items in JIRA and support teams through remediation, validation, and closure.
Identify, document, and communicate security risks tied to modernization efforts
Monitor cloud environments using AWS tools
Participates in Agile processes including daily standups, demos, retrospectives, and sprint planning
Collaborates with a fully integrated Agile team to deliver continuous improvement to designs, processes, and standards