{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8da70ba833ad3c52b230a4ea","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8da70ba833ad3c52b230a4ea","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8da70ba833ad3c52b230a4ea","title":"Senior DevSecOps Engineer","description":"About Peraton\n\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\n\nAbout The Role\n\nPeraton is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to serve as the technical lead for DevSecOps and cloud transformation across a large AWS enterprise environment spanning both commercial and GovCloud. This role will help modernize software delivery by building secure, automated, and repeatable development and deployment processes with security built in from the start.\n\nLocation: Remote\n\nShift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)\n\nWhat you will do:\n\nDevSecOps Pipelines and Security Automation\n\nDesign and manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines using reusable templates, shared runners, feature flags, environment gates, and DORA metrics.\nAutomate SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning as required pipeline stages, with policy-based gates that prevent insecure builds from promotion.\nIntegrate container scanning, registry admission controls, and runtime protection using Aqua Security to enforce Kubernetes and CIS benchmarks.\nScan Terraform and Kubernetes configurations for security issues and remediate findings before deployment.\nLead Jenkins-to-GitLab CI/CD migrations and establish standardized pipeline patterns for application teams\n\nContainer Platforms and Cloud Infrastructure\n\nOperate containerized workloads on OpenShift (ROSA) and Amazon EKS across AWS Commercial and GovCloud, including Spring Boot and other microservices.\nAutomate AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform and use Ansible/Ansible Tower for configuration management, hardening, and patching.\nEngineer AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, and CloudWatch, using least-privilege IAM as the baseline.\nImplement GitOps workflows so infrastructure, application, and cluster configurations are version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible.\n\nApp Enablement and Developer Self-Service\n\nBuild reusable Terraform modules and GitLab templates that allow application teams to provision namespaces, environments, and supporting AWS resources without platform-team tickets.\nDesign self-service onboarding workflows covering repository creation, CI/CD setup, RBAC and quotas, and security-gate enrollment.\nPublish standardized GitLab pipeline templates and golden-path patterns so security, compliance, and observability are built in automatically.\nMaintain onboarding documentation and module catalogs, and use adoption and onboarding metrics to identify and remove friction.\n\nSecurity, Compliance, and Identity\n\nImplement and enforce STIG, CIS, and organizational security requirements across pipelines, platforms, and workloads.\nDesign and manage AWS and Kubernetes IAM, including RBAC, admission controls, pod security, network policies, and secrets management using AWS KMS and Secrets Manager.\nSupport vulnerability management, ATO and accreditation activities, audits, and continuous compliance reporting across FedRAMP and DoD environments.\n\nObservability, Incident Response, and Reliability\n\nOperate observability platforms including Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.\nLead critical incident response, including real-time diagnostics, stakeholder and executive communication, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions through resolution.\nFacilitate cross-team root-cause reviews and drive resulting reliability improvements through implementation.\n\nLeadership and Delivery\n\nLead transformation initiatives across AI, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies, translating strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and technical responses to RFIs.\nEstablish engineering standards, review architecture, and mentor engineers across DevSecOps, cloud, security, and automation.\nIdentify and improve inefficient processes and actively participate in Agile delivery to evolve business processes and technology.\nQualifications\n\nBasic Qualifications\n\nMust be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.\nBachelor's degree with 12 years of experience, a Master's degree with 10 years of experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 16 years.\n8+ years of AWS experience covering networking, IT security tooling, and databases.\nHands-on technical expertise in DevSecOps, security automation, application development, integration, and release management.\nReal-world experience establishing and maturing CI/CD toward progressive delivery.\nExperience building self-service developer onboarding or platform-as-a-product capabilities using Terraform and GitLab.\nProven track record in senior technical or advisory roles, driving strategic change and digital adoption across business units.\nExperience supporting FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD-accredited cloud environments.\nLeadership presence and communication skills to work with customers at all levels and manage communication during critical incidents.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional.\nAWS Certified Security — Specialty.\nRed Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).\nHashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate; experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment.\nDetails\n\nTarget Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.\n\nBenefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\n\nApplication Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. 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Developer (CKAD).\nHashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate; experience obtaining or maintaining an ATO in a FedRAMP High environment.\nDetails\n\nTarget Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.\n\nBenefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\n\nApplication Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. 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