DevSecOps Engineer

Dev Sec Ops  Engineer

Areté is seeking a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer who is here for one purpose: to make our software development teams fast and successful on Git Lab and our CI/CD tooling. You will own the day-to-day health of our self-hosted Git Lab environment, build and troubleshoot the pipelines our developers depend on, and integrate security scanning into those pipelines so compliance is something the pipeline handles rather than something developers fight.

You are the person a developer goes to when a build, runner, or merge request workflow is broken. This is a hands-on engineering role with a heavy support and enablement component - a substantial part of the job is unblocking other engineers, writing the documentation that prevents the next ticket, and steadily raising the team's practices. This position is onsite at our Falls Church, VA facility.

The candidate will collaborate with Cyber Security and IT staff members, travel occasionally, and provide some after hours support. This is an exempt non-supervisory full-time position.

Developer Enablement & Support

• Serve as the primary point of contact for development teams on pipeline failures, Git Lab access and permissions, runner issues, package and container registry usage, merge request workflows, and environment troubleshooting.
• Build reusable pipeline templates, CI/CD components, and project scaffolding so teams start from a working, secure baseline instead of copying a pipeline from another repo.
• Create onboarding guides, runbooks, and internal documentation; run training sessions on Git workflow, pipeline authoring, and secure development practices.
• Advise developers on branching strategy, code review practice, versioning, and release management.

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

• Build, maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines in Git Lab CI, automating builds, tests, deployments, and security scans.
• Improve build reliability and speed - caching, artifact management, parallelization, runner sizing and scaling.
• Manage Git Lab Runners across environments, including containerized and self-hosted runner fleets.

Platform & Server Administration

• Administer self-hosted Git Lab: upgrades, migrations, backups and restore testing, runners, integrations, monitoring, permissions, and security configuration.
• Administer Areté's artifact repository (JFrog Artifactory) - repository structure, retention policy, remote/proxy repositories for external packages, and access control.
• Administer supporting Dev Sec Ops  services such as Sonar Qube, a secrets manager, and container registries; perform Linux system administration (RHEL, Rocky, or Ubuntu) for the platform, including system services, logging, and SSL/TLS certificate management.

Security Integration

• Implement and maintain SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container image scanning, secret scanning, and SBOM generation within pipelines.
• Configure quality and security gates, and work with development teams to triage and resolve findings rather than simply reporting them.
• Manage build-time secrets, signing, and artifact provenance in line with Areté's security requirements.

Automation, Process & Documentation

• Automate platform, build, and remediation tasks using Bash, Python, or Power Shell; manage infrastructure and configuration with IaC and deployment tooling.
• Maintain Dev Sec Ops  procedures, system documentation, and standard operating procedures; support change management, audit readiness, and compliance-aligned workflows.
• Track and report metrics on build times, pipeline reliability, and security posture, and drive measurable improvement.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or an additional 2 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.

Minimum of 3 years of hands-on Dev Ops or Dev Sec Ops  experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.

Demonstrated ability to build, debug, and optimize Git Lab CI pipelines -.gitlab-ci.yml authoring, CI/CD components and templates, and diagnosing failures across build, test, packaging, and deployment stages. Experience with self-hosted Git Lab, as an administrator or advanced user, is strongly preferred.

Proficiency in Linux system administration (RHEL, Rocky, or Ubuntu), including networking fundamentals, system services, logging, and certificate management.

Hands-on experience with Docker and container lifecycle management - image creation, registries, and image tagging/promotion.

Experience automating tasks with Bash, Python, or Power Shell.

Experience integrating at least one class of security tooling into pipelines - SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning, or container image scanning.

Demonstrated ability to support developers directly - resolving CI/CD and Git workflow issues, teaching Git fundamentals (branching, rebasing, merge conflict resolution, repository hygiene), writing clear documentation and…