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We’re proud to boast a world-class engineering team that thrives on rolling up their sleeves to solve your mission’s biggest challenges.\nDark Wolf is seeking an Expert DevSecOps Engineer to serve as a technical anchor, architecting, maintaining, and scaling the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools, pipelines, and infrastructure used across the development lifecycle. In this role, you will lead the integration of security and operational resilience, ensuring total observability, automated compliance, and software assurance across complex systems.\nWe are seeking a seasoned leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results while guiding high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nCI/CD Platform Leadership: Maintain, optimize, and scale production-grade CI/CD pipelines utilizing platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and custom workflow engines.\n Automated Security Engineering: Ensure the seamless integration of automated security controls and scanning processes throughout the pipeline, including static code analysis (SAST), dynamic code analysis (DAST), dependency auditing, and vulnerability scanning.\n Testing Architecture: Implement and maintain robust automated testing frameworks across unit testing, integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).\nVulnerability & Risk Remediation: Collaborate directly with software development and security teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses in deployed software products.\nRegulatory Compliance & Security Governance: Implement and enforce compliance with relevant federal, DoD, and organizational security regulations and standards.\n Platform & Infrastructure Strategy: Establish enterprise Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) module standards, direct multi-environment deployment frameworks, and lead response strategies for enterprise-level vulnerabilities.\nQualifications:\nClearance: Must be a US Citizen holding an active TS/SCI security clearance with an active Full-Scope Polygraph.\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.\nProfessional Experience: 10+ years of progressive engineering experience, including deep expertise in CI/CD concepts, methodologies, and enterprise automated pipeline construction.\nCore Technical Skills Required for Expert Level:(Advanced competencies expected for a 10+ year Expert practitioner)\n Enterprise Container Orchestration & Security: Deep experience managing enterprise Kubernetes clusters, authoring NetworkPolicies, implementing Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and enforcing runtime security (e.g., Falco).\n Policy-as-Code & Guardrails: Experience implementing Policy-as-Code architectures using tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA/Gatekeeper) or Kyverno to automate compliance enforcement before runtime.\n Secrets Management Architecture: Hands-on design and implementation of automated secret lifecycle solutions (e.g., HashiCorp Vault) integrating dynamically into pipelines and runtime platforms.\nDistributed Observability: Proven capability building centralized telemetry stacks leveraging OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch.\nDesired Qualifications:\nProgramming & Scripting: High proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or C/C++.\n Containerization: Comprehensive experience with containerized software engineering practices and runtimes (Docker, Podman, OCI specs).\nAgile Engineering: Proven experience working within and leading Agile/Scrum software development teams.\nMulti-Cloud Expertise: Architecture experience across major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.\n Security Tooling Ecosystem: Hands-on experience integrating modern security scanners (e.g., SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, OWASP ZAP, Fortify).\nIndustry Certifications:\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)\nAWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional\nCompTIA Security+, CISSP, or GIAC DevSecOps Automation (GCSA)\nPosition Clearance Requirement: \nUS Citizenship with an active TS/SCI security clearance with Full-Scope Polygraph\n\nLocation: Chantilly/Herndon, VA. \nTarget Salary Range: $160,000.00 - $210,000.00 (Commensurate with specialized expertise and technical skillset).\nEqual Opportunity Employer:\nWe are proud to be an EEO/AA employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories. 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