DevSecOps Specialist- Secret Cleared

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The primary responsibilities of a Dev Sec Ops  Specialist include:

• CI/CD Pipeline Development and Management:
  Designing, deploying, and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
• Software Maintenance:
  Ensuring the deployed software product is configured and maintained in an automated fashion throughout its lifecycle.
• Security Integration:
  Embedding security practices into the development and deployment processes.
• Observability:
  Implementing monitoring and logging to ensure the software’s performance and security can be observed and analyzed.
• Collaboration:
  
  Working closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.

• 8+ years of hands on experience.
• Bachelors degree; degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related field preferred.
• Must have an active Secret security clearance.
• Must meet DoD 8140 certification and work experience requirements.
• Security+ or IAT/IAM Level II or above equivalent such as CSSP.
• CKA, AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Dev Ops – Associate.
• Strong experience in demonstrating ability to work independently and hands-on across the entire Dev Sec Ops  pipeline tech stack.
• Experience in providing mentorship and leadership within a Dev Sec Ops  team.
• Deep expertise in Git Ops (Argo CD/Flux), IaC (Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE/AKS) at scale.
• Advanced troubleshooting without guidance across the stack (networking, DNS, TLS, authn/z, storage, runtime); strong root-cause analysis.
• Observability first: metrics/tracing/logs (Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana, Open Telemetry); defines SLOs, alerts, runbooks.
• Security built-in: image scanning (Trivy/Anchore), policy-as-code, secrets management, supply-chain hardening.
• Thorough experience in working and delivering in an Agile environment while maintaining velocity.
• Possesses demonstrated knowledge (mastery preferred) in the following tools and skills: AWS EKS, AWS ECS, AWS Security Hub;
  Istio or other service meshes;
  Helm, including maintenance and development of charts;
  Proficiency in Python to develop scripts, debug, and solve problems;
  Git Ops tooling (ArgoCD or FluxCD);
  Container security, OS hardening, and repository management;
  Help onboarding customer applications on the PaaS and Runtime environment.
• Previous experience with DoD’s Clod One, Platform One, Big Bang, and/or Iron Bank.
• Previous AWS Cloud computing experience.
• Prior work for DOD and/or Federal agencies.

USD $ - USD $ /Yr.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Information Technology

Business Consulting and Services

PCI Federal Services (PCIFS) and its subsidiaries is an equal-opportunity employer. PCIFS does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.

Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates in accordance with applicable federal law.