We are seeking a DevSecOps Specialist to support our client in St. Louis, MO. This is a fully remote opportunity. Please see below to find the job description and desired qualifications:
Responsibilities:
The primary responsibilities of a DevSecOps Specialist include:
• CI/CD Pipeline Development and Management: Designing, deploying, and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
• Software Maintenance: Ensuring the deployed software product is configured and maintained in an automated fashion throughout its lifecycle.
• Security Integration: Embedding security practices into the development and deployment processes.
• Observability: Implementing monitoring and logging to ensure the software's performance and security can be observed and analyzed.
• Collaboration: Working closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.
Qualifications
• 8+ years of hands on experience.
• Bachelors degree; degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related field preferred.
• Must have an active Secret security clearance.
• Must meet DoD 8140certification and work experience requirements:
• Security+ or IAT/IAM Level II or above equivalent such as CSSP.
• CKA, AWS Solutions Architect or AWS DevOps - Associate.
• Strong experience in demonstrating ability to work independently and hands-on across the entire DevSecOps pipeline tech stack.
• Experience in providing mentorship and leadership within a DevSecOps team
• Deep expertise in GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), IaC (Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE/AKS) at scale.
• Expert in CI/CD (GitLab/Pipelines), IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, Istio.
• Advanced troubleshooting without guidance across the stack (networking, DNS, TLS, authn/z, storage, runtime); strong root-cause analysis.
• Observability first: metrics/tracing/logs (Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana, OpenTelemetry); defines SLOs, alerts, runbooks.
• Security built-in: image scanning (Trivy/Anchore), policy-as-code, secrets management, supply-chain hardening.
• Thorough experience in working and delivering in an Agile environment while maintaining velocity.
Possesses demonstrated knowledge (mastery preferred) in the following tools and skills:
• Terraform.
• Kubernetes.
• AWS EKS, AWS ECS, AWS Security Hub.
• Docker.
• Podman.
• Jenkins.
• Istio or other service meshes.
• Helm, including maintenance and development of charts.
• Proficiency in Python to develop scripts, debug, and solve problems.
• GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or FluxCD).
• GitLab, GitHub.
• Atlassian Suite: JIRA, Confluence, Mattermost.
• Fortify, SonarQube.
• Container security, OS hardening, and repository management.
• Cloud native tools, including CNCF projects.
• CI/CD Pipelines developing automation.
• Help onboarding customer applications on the PaaS and Runtime environment.
Preferred skills and experience:
• Previous experience with DoD's Clod One, Platform One, Big Bang, and/or Iron Bank.
• Previous AWS Cloud computing experience.
• Prior work for DOD and/or Federal agencies.
