RHEL 10 & DevSecOps Cybersecurity Automation Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity:

The Senior Cybersecurity Automation Engineer will lead the development and implementation of automated security hardening, compliance validation, and continuous monitoring capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 environments. The engineer will maximize automation of applicable Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and security requirements using approved scripting technologies such as Ansible, Python, or Bash.

The position requires hands-on experience securing containerized workloads and Docker Swarm environments, integrating security controls and validation tools into CI/CD pipelines, and operating within Department of Defense or similarly regulated environments. The engineer will collaborate with cybersecurity, platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops , system administration, and Assessment and Authorization teams to translate security requirements into repeatable, testable, and auditable automation.

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You Have:5+ years of experience engineering, administering, or securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux or enterprise Linux environments3+ years of experience developing security automation using Ansible, including reusable roles, playbooks, inventories, templates, and automated validation

Experience securing RHEL technologies including SELinux, firewalld or nftables, auditd, PAM, systemd, SSH, cryptographic policies, file permissions, and centralized logging and interpreting and implementing STIGs, Security Requirements Guides, CIS Benchmarks, or security baselines, including translating manual requirements into idempotent automation

Experience using compliance and vulnerability-assessment technologies such as OpenSCAP, SCAP Compliance Checker, ACAS, Tenable, or Nessus Experience applying container-security requirements, including container guidance, CIS Docker Benchmarks, or container-hardening standards and securing Docker Swarm environments, including managers, workers, hosts, images, registries, services, networking, secrets, logging, and vulnerability remediation

Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating security capabilities such as compliance testing, vulnerability scanning, container-image scanning, secrets detection, and infrastructure-as-code scanning

Experience with approved scripting language such as Python or Bash and using Git-based workflows to develop, test, review, and maintain security automation

Knowledge of RMF and ATO processes

Secret clearance HS diploma or GEDNice If You Have:

Experience securing RHEL 10 or migrating security automation and hardened configurations from RHEL 8 or RHEL 9 to RHEL 10

Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automation Controller, execution environments, private automation hubs, and testing tools such as Molecule, ansible-lint, Testinfra, or pytest

Experience automating STIG evidence, compliance reporting, control traceability, tailoring, exceptions, false-positive documentation, and continuous-monitoring activities TS/SCI clearance

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as cybersecurity, computer science, or engineering

Red Hat, cloud, or advanced cybersecurity Certifications, such as RHCSA, RHCE, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, AWS or Azure, CISSP, ISSEP, or SecurityX Certification Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Secret clearance is required.

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