DevSecOps Engineer

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at

We are seeking a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to join our team in supporting modernization initiatives for our federal client. The ideal candidate excels in Dev Sec Ops  automation, is proficient in Git Lab, Jira/Confluence, Git Lab CI pipelines, Kubernetes, Harness, ArgoCD, Docker, Dynatrace/App Dynamics, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana and is committed to securing and streamlining software delivery and infrastructure.

Qualified applicants will be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information. This is a highly technical position; individuals will be screened by peers in a technical review of skills and experience.

• Develop, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab, Harness, enabling secure, efficient software delivery.
• Design and manage Git Ops pipelines leveraging ArgoCD to ensure consistent, auditable, and declarative infrastructure and application deployments.
• Integrate security best practices into all phases of the Dev Ops lifecycle, performing automated security testing and compliance checks.
• Collaborate with software developers, data scientists, and system engineers to enforce Dev Sec Ops  standards, streamline deployment, and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Ensure the operational resiliency, scalability, and maintainability of cloud-based or hybrid environments supporting modernization goals.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance, security, and health of infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Maintain documentation, provide training, and promote best practices among multidisciplinary teams. Design, build and maintain CI/CD, testing, and operations infrastructure.
• Develop custom tools and automation through programming and scripting.
• Pro-actively identify areas to drive automation across platforms.
• Develop innovative strategies, processes, automation, fail-over experience
• Design and setup of new large cloud clusters.
• Provide support to implement Change/Service Requests per application needs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, primarily using Terraform.

• 7-10 years of experience in related field.
• In-depth knowledge of Dev Sec Ops  principles, continuous integration, security automation, and compliance enforcement in federal or secure environments.
• Hands-on expertise in:
  • CI/CD automation using Git Lab, Jenkins/Harness/ArgoCD Continuous Delivery (CD) and Git Ops workflows deploying to Kubernetes.
  • Prefer Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
    Terraform for cloud and hybrid infrastructure provisioning.
• Proficiency with version control (Git), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and integrating security controls into delivery pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Dynatrace, Elastic Search
• Proficiency in managing AWS services like EC2, ECS, ECR, EKS, NLB, ALB, RDS, S3, Kafka, Cloud monitoring services, VPC and other network layers.
• Experience in migration of applications from on premises to cloud.
• Knowledge of OO programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python)
• Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines.
• Good understanding of cloud security and best practices.

• Prior experience supporting federal government agencies, particularly with Homeland security/ Customs & Border Protection.
• Familiarity with system modernization, supply chain risk analysis, or related domains.
• Knowledge of common cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Helm, and automated monitoring frameworks.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required.

• AWS or Dev Ops/ Dev Sec Ops  certifications preferred.
• This federal program requires the candidates to be a United States Citizen.
• Must have a current CBP BI clearance or be eligible to obtain one.

• Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external…