DevSecOps Engineer Principal

Type of Requisition:

Regular

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BI Full 6C (T4)

Cyber and IT Risk Management

Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Security Compliance

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5 + years of related experience

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DEVSECOPS ENGINEER PRINCIPAL

(100% Remote)

Role Overview
We are seeking a security-focused Principal Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to design, automate, and secure cloud-native platforms supporting enterprise applications and AI workloads. This role emphasizes Dev Sec Ops  practices, compliance with FedRAMP and security audit requirements, and deep expertise across AWS, Amazon EKS, Git Lab CI/CD, and MLOps/AIOps. The ideal candidate will be able to support all deployment workflows and data pipeline operations across the platform.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure AWS cloud infrastructure using Open Tofu and Git Lab CI/CD.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters supporting enterprise and Generative AI workloads.
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines using Dev Sec Ops  best practices, including automated vulnerability scans and compliance checks.
• Build and support MLOps/AIOps platforms for AI model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure platform compliance with FedRAMP, NIST standards, internal security policies, vulnerability management processes, and audit-readiness requirements.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to support deployment operations, data pipelines, and platform automation.

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, or Cloud Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Amazon EKS, Linux, Git Lab CI/CD.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Dev Sec Ops  practices, including container security, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, security compliance frameworks, and experience supporting internal/external audits.
• Experience working with Generative AI, MLOps/AIOps platforms, with strong scripting and automation skills.

• Experience with security platforms including Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Aqua, Trivy, or Snyk.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch, or Splunk.
• Experience with AI/ML technologies, including LLM deployment, vector databases, and AI security best practices.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architectures, IAM, policy-as-code, and Infrastructure as Code governance.

• Required:
  
  CompTIA Security+ or equivalent.
• Preferred: AWS certifications such as Dev Ops Engineer or Security Specialty, CISSP, or an equivalent security certification.

The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

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Less than 10%

Remote

Any Location / Remote

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our…