DevSecOps Engineer

Northstrat is looking to hire a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to join our distributed operations team, developing modular cloud technologies, optimized infrastructure, and adaptable CI/CD pipelines to enable viable remoting services in distributed environments for the Department of Defense. This role requires an understanding of Kubernetes, CI/CD tools, distributed cloud and on-prem technologies to ensure high quality software, dynamic data availability with integrity, to deliver on demand capability to our nation's warfighters.

This role is in support of the U.S. Navy Spectral Program. The Spectral system is critical to the ability for our forces to fight and win in the increasingly sophisticated and complex cyber and electronic threats of our adversaries.

As a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer with Northstrat, you will bridge the gap between development and operation, ensuring seamless software code deployment for distributed environments. You will be responsible for building and deploying automation tools and distributed infrastructure that allows the delivery of high-quality software in production environments to run efficiently. You will work in a collaborative environment to promote continuous improvement within our Distributed Operations and Remoting Services team for Spectral.

This team provides the powerful capability for Spectral capabilities to be used across multiple platforms, and to share information with remote sites dramatically expanding the power of the system. Our Dev Sec Ops  Engineers work within an Agile development team leveraging scaled agile practices to rapidly deliver incremental software solutions to our customer's, focused on ideation, development, quality, deployment, and sustainment of high-quality software products.

This position is for highly motivated developer.

• Deploy scalable infrastructure as code across distributed environments to optimize performance
• Automation and repeatable CI/CD for distributed environments
• Infrastructure as code provisioning for operating in distributed environments with leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm charts to reduce downtime
• Implement health and status remoting capabilities across distributed environments
• Knowledge using VPNs, VPC peering, and service mesh technologies
• Knowledgeable in employing security best practices and tools
• Automate routine tasks leveraging scripting and programming tools like Python, Java, etc
• Familiarity with cross domain solutions to enable continuous authority to field software packages
• Communicate and collaborate within team constructs, cross team, paired programming

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, System Engineering, or a related field
• Must have at least 3-5 year of experience in Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , Software Engineering or related fields
• Knowledge of scripting and programming languages (Python, Java, Bash, Go)
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Gitlab, etc)
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc)
• Active Top Secret/SCI DoD Security Clearance is required

• Experience with cloud/hybrid/on‑prem environments
• Familiarity with database management (SQL)
• Experience with agile methodologies and Dev Sec Ops  practices
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices (AWS certifications)
• Knowledge with Kubernetes orchestration and deployments (Kubernetes Certified Administrator)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tool chains (Certified Jenkins Engineer, Gitlab)
• Knowledge with Terraform (Hashicorp certified Terraform Associate)
• Familiarity with security methodologies and tools (Sonar Qube, etc)
• Demonstrated problem‑solving skills and communication skills
• Security certifications (Sec+, CCNA, SSCP)

Northstrat values true work life balance. We offer power of choice benefits designed to best meet the needs of you and your lifestyle. Our benefits programs are designed to support and encourage wellness, healthy living, retirement investment, and lifetime learning.

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