Senior DevSecOps / IaC Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026.
About Zaden Technologies
Zaden Technologies is a defense technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. We build AI, DevSecOps and digital engineering products and put them to work for DoD customers.
Build the environment-as-code pipelines that stand up DoD test environments from a catalog request.
You'll support a new Defense Health Agency program. This position is contingent upon contract award, and the start date will align with the program start.
What you'll do:
- Build and maintain Terraform, Packer and Ansible code in GitLab CI
- Build the self-service environment catalog and its guardrails
- Bake STIG hardening and evidence collection into every build
- Mentor engineers and review their code
Must have:
- 8 or more years in DevOps, DevSecOps or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on Terraform, Ansible and GitLab CI
- Experience building in a DoD or federal authorized environment
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and keep the background investigation DHA designates for this position
- DoD 8140 qualification for your work role before privileged access, or the ability to earn it within six months
Nice to have:
- vSphere automation (PowerCLI, the Terraform vSphere provider)
- AWS GovCloud experience
- An active Secret clearance or higher
Location: Chantilly, Virginia (Washington, D.C. area) is preferred, on site at the test center. Remote from Huntsville, Alabama, or from anywhere in the continental U.S. also works, through government-approved virtual desktop access, with trips to Chantilly when the work needs them.
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship is required for the investigation this role needs. Zaden's FSO verifies investigation status.
Pay range: $138,000 to $183,000 per year. Your location and experience set where you land in the range.
Questions about this role? Email [email protected].
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Equal opportunity
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