DevSecOps Engineer

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Mount Laurel, NJ

Compensation: $114,000 - $231,000 / year

About The Role:

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT), a leading defense technology company, is seeking a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to be part of our Internal Dev Sec Ops  team and based out of one of our locations:
Mount Laurel NJ, Arlington, VA, or Fall River, MA.

Our internal Dev Sec Ops  (DSO) team's intent is to accelerate, across all IDT software teams, the experimentation, development, testing, and delivery of secure, compliant, and high-quality software. We will achieve this by maintaining a secure software factory and trusted Dev Sec Ops  environments, continuously improving the developer experience, and fostering collaboration and shared best practices across our engineering workflows. We will be successful when all software teams can confidently and independently deliver frequent prototypes, updates, and production ready releases through the DSO secured software factory with minimal IDSO intervention.

In this mid-level role, you will not just run pipelines, you will design CI/CD. You will architect reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules, automate security compliance frameworks, and engineer platform solutions that empower IDT software teams to deliver to our customers with confidence and velocity.

Clearance & Location Requirements:

• All applicants must be able to obtain/maintain an active Secret U.S. Security Clearance.
• This is an on-site position. Requiring at least 3 days in office, based out of our Arlington, VA, Mount Laurel, NJ, or Fall River, MA office.

What You Will Do:

• Design, architect, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, developing reusable pipeline templates and custom shared components to streamline execution across all software teams
• Hard code and automate advanced security controls (SAST, SCA, container scanning, SBOM generation, secrets detection) directly into the pipeline fabric, establishing guardrails that run autonomously
• Configure, scale, and secure our Software Factory platform (Git Lab, JFrog Artifactory, Sonar Qube), managing system setups, staging and testing clusters, and automated tool backups
• Design, modularize, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) blueprints using Ansible and Open Tofu, designing automation models the DSO team, as well as other engineering teams, can use to spin up environments and deployments
• Orchestrate and optimize containerized clusters using Podman, securing cluster communications, and managing local registry synchronization.
• Own and harden DSO platform deployments in secure, air-gapped environments, including:
  • packaging and deploying dependencies
  • remediating environment-specific issues
  • supporting repeatable software delivery without external connectivity
  • collaborate with the SECOPs teams to maintain DSO platform compliance
• Automate compliance enforcement by translating DISA STIGs, NIST 800-171, and RMF controls into automated pipeline validation scripts and policy-as-code configurations
• Diagnose and remediate complex, low-level system friction points (e.g., SELinux policy denials, pipeline token validation issues, and local network/VPN bottlenecks), defining long-term fixes to prevent recurrence
• Analyze developer telemetry, feedback loops, and build metrics to proactively eliminate pipeline friction, continuously improving the overall Developer Experience (DX)
• Partner with cross-functional software, security, and systems engineering teams to establish collaborative delivery patterns and guide developers on DSO best practices

Who You Are (Required):

• 5-7 years of professional, post-graduation experience in a Dev Sec Ops , Dev Ops, Platform/Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering role with a strong emphasis on automation or platform administration
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• U.S. citizenship
• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Strong working knowledge of modern, secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum, branching strategies, secure code reviews, automated linting, and release packaging)
• Practical experience building and scale-optimizing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or some other CI/CD orchestrator (such as building custom shared libraries, declarative pipelines, or automated test hooks)
• Practical experience orchestrating containerized workloads…