Job Description Sr. IT DevSecOps Engineer Duration: 10 month + contract on W2
Place of Performance: On-site at Washington, DC
Period of Performance: February 2, 2026 December 31, 2026 (potential extension to 2027)
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Position Summary The Sr. IT DevSecOps Engineer will build GitLab based DevSecOps automated pipelines into AWS GovCloud, support and accelerate application delivery on the CI/CD platform, and manage and operate GitLab CI/CD environments. Certifications GitLab certification desired but not required AWS certification desired but not required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Version Control Systems Proficiency with Git Advanced knowledge of GitLab, including CI/CD pipelines, merge requests, and issue tracking Familiarity with branching, promotion, and release strategies (such as SemRel) Familiarity using internalized registries and repositories (Nexus dependency management, internal container registries, etc.) CI/CD GitLab CI/CD GitLab runners (configuration and management) GitLab components (or generally developing and utilizing templates for CI/CD jobs in any platform, such as GitHub Actions) Cloud Platforms Demonstrated proficiency with AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, EBS/EFS, ECS, EKS, SNS, CloudWatch) Containerization Docker (building, deploying, and managing containers) Kubernetes (orchestration, deployment strategies, security, troubleshooting) Container security best practices Container hardening strategies, such as maintaining a secure "golden" image Deploying and managing container-based runners hosted on EKS GitOps tools and deployment principles (such as ArgoCD/Flux) Security Testing Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Container scanning tooling (Trivy, Prisma/Twistlock, Neuvector, etc.) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform (writing, managing, and optimizing Terraform configurations) Other IaC tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Ansible) Scripting and Programming Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) Basic to intermediate programming skills Experience working with a Linux-based shell and navigating Linux systems Ability to work well in a paired programming environment at times Automation Creating and maintaining automated security checks and remediations Integrating security into automated deployment processes Incorporating linting tooling into development processes Incorporating unit & performance testing into deployment processes
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