Senior Software Engineer - DevSecOps

Date Posted: 2026-06-11 Country: United States of America Location: US-CA-SAN JOSE-826 ~ 200 Holger Way ~ BLDG 826, Ast Position Role Type: Onsite U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance Security Clearance Type: TS/SCI with Polygraph Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1 What You Will Do Drive and manage the AST's DevSecOps development environment, tooling, and process workflows. Coach, mentor, and enable engineering teams to adopt and utilize AST's DevSecOps ecosystem and workflows. Oversee the installation, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise DevSecOps applications, including: Application and plugin installations/deployments, upgrades, patches, and configurations. System migrations and cross-application integrations. User provisioning, access management, and permissions. Provide project and technical user support, including: Project onboarding and custom support requests. Day-to-day troubleshooting, documentation of best practices, and template creation. Collaborate closely with project managers, engineering leadership, and development teams within the Engineering organization. Travel up to 25% to other AST locations and customer sites within the U.S. Qualifications You Must Have Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience Experience managing and/or supporting the following enterprise applications: Atlassian Jira/Confluence Gitlab Cloudbees CI (Jenkins) Artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Pulp) Software Supply Chain Security tools (JFrog Xray, Sonatype Lifecycle, Black Duck) Container and Orchestration tools (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Helm) Secrets management tools (AWS Secrets Manager, GitGuardian) Experience with managing and developing CI/CD pipelines Experience with scripting languages (Python, Go, Groovy, Bash, Perl, etc.) Experience with Linux System Administration and Red Hat (or compatible variants) based distributions (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Rocky) Experience with virtualization technology (KVM, VMWare, Hyper-V) Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams Ability to obtain a U.S. government issued Top Secret SCI (TS/SCI) security clearance with polygraph is required after start. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance Qualifications We Prefer Experience managing/supporting and/or developing with any of the following: Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt) Observability dashboard tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Kibana) Possess professional certifications in DevOps/DevSecOps and/or CI/CD areas: Containers and Orchestration (CKS, CKA, CKAD, DCA) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Security Specialty Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE), or equivalent advanced Linux credential CompTIA Security+ GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate, GitLab Certified Security Specialist Strong foundation in Agile software development Cross-platform development, focusing on RHEL (CentOS / Rocky) 8+ and Windows Compliance familiarity key U.S. government cybersecurity regulations and standards such as NIST SP 800-171, FIPS, and/or DFARS/CMMC Familiarity with or basic understanding of telecommunications systems concepts and/or signal processing Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret SCI (TS/SCI) security clearance with Poly What We Offer Medical, dental, and vision insurance Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option Tuition reimbursement program Student Loan Repayment Program Life insurance and disability coverage Optional coverages such as pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning Adoption Assistance Autism Benefit Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits Bright Horizons, child and elder care services Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program Eligible for relocation And More! Salary range: 95,500 USD - 181,700 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. J-18808-Ljbffr