DevSecOps Engineer

At Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software.

We move fast, we're not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you're in engineering, sales, product, or operations. If you want to work on something that truly matters, with people who care deeply about the impact we're making and help shape the future of an industry that's just getting started, you're in the right place.

As a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer, you will manage the cloud security implementation for multiple cloud environments to include AWS, Azure, and classified platforms. You will also be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure software development practices and tools for Slingshot’s software development lifecycle.

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance orientation, and industry expertise.

• Executes all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s core values, mission, and purpose

• Work within Engineering teams to interweave security with the scalability, performance, reliability, and functional requirements to virtualized/cloud computing solutions

• Leverage industry best practices and experience to ensure that security is baked into deliverables from the start and that each product and program fully embrace a Dev Sec Ops  and “shift-left on security” mentality

• Develop automated build and test pipeline strategies including aspects of security and compliance to ensure viability of cloud deployment solutions

• Secure and manage cloud-native resource on providers like AWS and Azure through infrastructure-as-code and compliance-as-code

• Administer and support developer and user access to cloud resources

• Leverage observability tools to monitor security metrics for applications virtualized resources

• Participate in Agile software develop and deployment processes

• Provide ongoing support for the services and applications that are critical to our business needs

• Communicate methods, findings, and hypotheses with stakeholders

• Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)

• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance or be eligible and willing to obtain one

• 3+ years of professional experience in a Dev Sec Ops  or similar role

• Experience with container security practices within Kubernetes and Helm

• Experience with security configuration of AWS Cloud Native Technologies

• Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (Git Hub Actions)

• Experience with infrastructure as code frameworks including Terraform

• Good understanding of networking, routing, firewalls, VPN, SSL

• Knowledge of programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash, JavaScript) used in Dev Sec Ops  life cycles

• Keen attention to detail and industry best practices pertaining to privacy, security, and compliance

• Skill and comfort working in a rapidly moving startup environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users

• Degree in computer science or related field

• Active TS/SCI clearance

• Experience with asynchronous processing and/or data streaming technologies, such as AWS Kinesis, Kafka, or ZeroMQ, KNative

• Experience with securing data…