DevSecOps Engineer- Secret Clearance

SHERPA LLC
Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 160K

Job location

Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States of America

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Bash
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Github
Groovy
Python
Powershell
Systems Development Life Cycle
Security Software
Software Engineering
Systems Integration
Pulumi
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Cloud Platform System
GIT
Gitlab-ci
Git Flow
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Information Technology
Build Process
Machine Learning Operations
Terraform
Devsecops
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

  • Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
  • You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches
  • Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
  • Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.
  • Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.
  • Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.
  • Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
  • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
  • Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.
  • Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
  • Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project

Requirements

If you enjoy solving complex DevSecOps challenges, influencing architecture decisions, and seeing your work immediately shape real-world outcomes, this is an exceptional opportunity., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

  • Experience working within AWS environments.
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, build engineering, or a similar discipline.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
  • Strong knowledge of Git, including branching strategies and tagging workflows.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:

  • Experience integrating automated security scans and documentation into CI/CD pipelines or IT workflows.
  • Experience with SageMaker.
  • Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
  • Experience working within DoD or government environments.
  • Familiarity with DISA STIGs and automated compliance scanning.
  • MLOps experience, The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.

Benefits & conditions

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

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