Senior DevSecOps Engineer
About The Position
Bluestaq is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build, secure, and operate the delivery pipelines and infrastructure that move software from development to production in mission-critical environments. In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will support multiple services and environments within a program or major product area, acting as a go-to resource for pipeline and deployment questions for your teams. You will own medium-sized initiatives end to end, such as containerizing an application, adding security scanning to a pipeline, or migrating a service to GitOps, and will proactively harden the systems in your area. You will design and maintain moderately complex pipelines, manage Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and participate in incident response and root-cause analysis when pipelines, deployments, or clusters break.
Requirements
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage builds, approvals, automated testing, and security scanning.
- Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters, including resource management, ingress, secrets, certificates, and networking.
- Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC), including state management, drift, and modularization.
- Experience with configuration-as-code using Ansible.
- Experience integrating tooling across the delivery workflow: security scanners, logging, metrics, GitOps, and artifact management.
- Experience supporting multiple services and environments (e.g., dev/test/prod).
- Experience participating in incident response and root-cause analysis for pipeline, deployment, or infrastructure issues.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to support developers and act as a resource for delivery questions.
- High School Diploma/GED and 6+ years of relevant experience, OR Associate degree in a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience, OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, OR Master's degree in a related field and 0+ years of relevant experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating in regulated, mission-critical, or high-security environments.
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling.
- Familiarity with container security practices such as image scanning, SBOMs, and policy engines.
- Experience improving monitoring, alerting, and observability for services or platforms.
- Experience hardening infrastructure, including IAM, secrets management, and secure baselines.
- Experience containerizing applications and modernizing delivery workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain moderately complex CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage builds, approvals, automated tests, and security scans.
- Own medium-sized initiatives end to end, such as containerizing an application, adding security scanning, or migrating a service to GitOps.
- Integrate CI/CD, security scanners, logging, metrics, GitOps, and artifact management tooling; automate away manual deployment steps.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, including resource requests and limits, ingress, secrets, certificates, and networking.
- Define infrastructure with Terraform (or similar IaC) and Ansible across multiple services and environments (e.g., dev/test/prod).
Benefits
- This position may require the ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
