DevSecOps and Release Engineer

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a DevSecOps and Release Engineer to become part of our team in Huntsville, AL. This individual will design, automate, and support secure software delivery for a multi-service enterprise platform. The engineer will improve CI/CD, software supply-chain assurance, release coordination, deployment validation, and recovery readiness across development and customer environments.

Responsbibilities include:

• Design and maintain reusable CI/CD pipelines, build automation, test stages, artifact promotoin, and release workflows.
• Integrate code analysis, dependency analysis, container scanning, dynamic testing, software bills of materials, signing, and provenance into delivery pipelines.
• Manage container images, packages, deployment artifacts, versioning, and release records across private registries and access-controlled environments.
• Automate Kubernetes and OpenShift deployment validation using GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, infrastructure as code, and policy checks.
• Coordinate releases across multiple software teams and ensure dependencies, evidence, approvals, and customer inputs are ready.
• Develop integration, negative, upgrade, rollback, and recovery tests with platform and application engineers.
• Investigate pipeline, build, artifact, deployment, and environment failures and implement durable corrections.
• Maintain release procedures, deployment instructions, operational handoff material, and recovery documentation.
• Measure deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and recurring delivery effort.
• Promote secure automation, reproducible builds, peer review, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, information technology or a related discipline, or equivalent experience and combined education, with 7 years of experience, or relevant professional experience; or 5 years with a related Master’s degree.

• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for multi-service software products.
• Experience with Git, Linux, containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift, scripting, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience integrating automated software quality and security checks into build and release workflows.
• Experience with artifact repositories, container registries, versioning, release coordination, and deployment automation.
• Experience troubleshooting, pipeline, artifact, and deployment issues.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate release risk to technical and nontechnical personnel.
• Works well in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.
• Must be willing to work onsite in a closed/classified area.
• Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GitLab CI, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Ansible, or comperable technologies.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, software bills of materials, artifact signing, and vulnerability disposition.
• Experience with private registries and disconnected software deliver.
• Experience with policy as code, Kubernetes configuration validation, and automated compliance evidence.
• Experience with progressive delivery release trians, rollback automation, disaster recovery, or operational readiness reviews.
• Experience supporting government customers and formal software releases.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.