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Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Steampunk

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McLean, VA · Posted September 15, 2026

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  • Python
  • Agile
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • CI/CD

About the job

Overview

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation.

Contributions

Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation

Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey this to developers

Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes

Test and examine code written by others and analyze results

Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop software updates and ‘fixes’

Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD

Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems

Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.

Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.

Qualifications

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience

3 years of experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)

3 years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

3 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages

3 years of application DevSecOps experience with development experience in an Agile environment

3 years of experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes

3 years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration

3 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI

3 years of experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration

Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines

Preferred:

Certifications:

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate

SAFe DevOps Certification

Experience implementing automated testing frameworks including Selenium

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills

Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby

Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $90,000 to $165,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.