DevSecOps Engineer Sr
Washington, AR - USA
Job Summary
Position: DevSecOps Engineer
LCAT: Senior Data Engineer
Location: DIA HQ Washington DC
Required clearance and polygraph:Active TS/SCI and CI polygraph. Candidates with current CI polygraph conducted within the past 7 years highly prioritized.
Required experience and education:8 years of experience and bachelors degree
Description
As aDevSecOpsEngineer you will design build harden and operate CI/CD systems cloud infrastructure and container platforms that support the software lifecycle from code commit through production deployment. You will partner with multiple project teams to embed security controls automate delivery workflows and build scalable resilient environments.
The preferred candidate is a hands-on senior engineer who can bridge database engineering API developmentDevSecOpsautomation and secure platform architecture. This person should be comfortable taking an initial concept building an MVP working directly with platform teams and turning the solution into reusable templates and implementation patterns for multiple database technologies.
The candidate will be responsible to design tune and maintain relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL MySQL Aurora Oracle MongoDB and AWS RDS-based services. They will support database migration backup replication disaster recovery and point-in-time recovery activities. They will also support secure software delivery in accordance with DoD IC RMF ICD-503 NIST SP 800-53 STIG and continuous monitoring requirements.
Required qualifications
8 years of experience inDevSecOps DevOps Cloud Engineering or platform automation roles
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI or GitHub Actions
Experience deploying cloud infrastructure on AWS Azure or GCP usingIaC such as Terraform CloudFormation or CDK
Experience containerizing and orchestrating workloads using Docker or similar containerization and Kubernetes
Experience integrating automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines such as SAST SCA or image scanning
Experience in Linux administration and proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash or Go
Experience with Gitbased branching tagging and release workflows
Experience with networking fundamentals such as DNS routing load balancing or TLS
Cloud or DevOps Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect CKA CKAD
Security Certification
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
Bachelors degree in a STEM field or equivalent work experience.
Experience withGitOpstooling such as Flux Argo CD orHelmfile
Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines such as caching artifacts or parallelization
Experience implementing Zero Trust patterns hardened container images or compliancefocused deployments such as STIG or CIS Benchmarks
Experience with AWS security services such asGuardDuty Macie Inspector or equivalent Azure or GCP tools
Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus Grafana ELK or CloudWatch
Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible Chef or Puppet
Experience with AI augmented development workflows or agentic tools
Masters degree in Physics Computer Science or a STEM field.
ABOUT NALLEY CONSULTING
Nalley Consulting is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business working with prime partners to staff Department of Defense and Intelligence Community positions. Created by a U.S. Navy intelligence veteran Nalley Consulting has grown to include multiple IDIQ vehicles in several states.
Nalley Consulting fringe benefits include:
- Excellent medical dental and vision benefits
- PTO
- 11 paid federal holidays
- Tuition assistance
- Paid military-reserve leave
- Paid parental leave for birth or adoption
- 401k matching up to 5 percent of the base salary
- Flex time
- Company-paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Nalley Consulting supports federal & state government agencies by providing highly qualified professionals devoted to fulfilling our clients’ missions.