Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Steampunk • McLean, VA

13d • $150,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Steampunk is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build governance-gate automation and pipeline tooling supporting AI oversight and program reporting for a large federal advisory program. This role involves coordinating MLOps-style governance gates, supporting automated maintenance of AI governance artifacts, integrating security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and supporting infrastructure-as-code and environment automation.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of total experience
• 5+ years of DevSecOps or automation engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience building pipeline governance/compliance gates
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Experience integrating security scanning tools (SAST/DAST/SCA) into automated pipelines
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Familiarity with FISMA categorization processes

Nice To Haves

• Experience with MLOps or AI-pipeline governance specifically
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53 or Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes
• Federal environment experience

Responsibilities

• Coordinate MLOps-style governance gates with pilot graduation criteria and enterprise readiness standards, embedding compliance checks into delivery flow
• Support automated maintenance of the AI Use Case Inventory, Risk Heatmap, and Mandate Compliance Matrix, with human review of all automated outputs
• Coordinate technical review board and FISMA categorization timing within the AI governance pipeline
• Support technical safeguards protecting against unauthorized data access within AI tooling and pipelines
• Integrate automated security scanning (SAST/DAST/SCA) and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines supporting program tooling
• Support infrastructure-as-code and environment automation for developed tools
• Support CI/CD and deployment automation for reporting and dashboard tooling built by the development team

Benefits

• The projected compensation range for this position is $150,000 to $185,000.
• Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees.
• Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

What This Job Offers

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