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DevSecOps Engineer - Government in USA

  • Applied Intuition
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Washington, DC

Responsibilities

  • Own secure code integration across source, build, test, release, and deployment workflows.
  • Build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, and hardened build environments.
  • Integrate and consolidate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, container, and infrastructure-as-code scanning tools.
  • Define security promotion gates, severity thresholds, exception workflows, and actionable remediation processes.
  • Automate system hardening, security validation, policy enforcement, and machine-readable compliance evidence.
  • Build preventive and detective controls across AWS GovCloud multi-account environments, including automated remediation.
  • Implement software supply-chain protections such as SBOM generation, artifact signing, dependency management, and image admission control.
  • Support software promotion into classified and air-gapped environments with offline dependencies, package mirrors, and controlled transfer workflows.
  • Lead threat modeling and security design reviews and propose compensating controls.
  • Map technical controls to NIST, DISA STIG, DoD, and CMMC requirements and support assessments and ATO activities.
  • Provide secure development guidance, technical documentation, developer troubleshooting, and secure-practice coaching.
  • Participate as a backup for build, artifact, and pipeline systems and join the security on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience across software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or security engineering.
  • DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II qualification, including Security+ certification as a condition of employment.
  • Hands-on scripting or software development experience with Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
  • Production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
  • Hands-on AWS experience with Config, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch/EventBridge.
  • Experience writing and deploying policy-as-code using OPA/Rego, cfn-guard, Cedar, or equivalent.
  • Working knowledge of NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, DISA STIGs, RMF, DFARS 252.204-7012, and CMMC Level 2.
  • Experience producing audit-ready evidence, working with third-party assessors, and introducing blocking security gates into delivery pipelines.
  • Ability to integrate security tooling into developer workflows, troubleshoot findings, teach secure practices, and unblock delivery.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen and have or be able to obtain an active DoD security clearance, with a minimum of Secret and Top Secret preferred.
  • Willingness to travel for company business as required, approximately 10%.
  • Preferred qualifications include CISSP, CSSLP, CKS, or AWS Security Specialty certification; experience with Platform One, Iron Bank, Big Bang, Kata Containers, gVisor, classified or air-gapped environments, SLSA, SSDF, CycloneDX, SPDX, OSCAL, FedRAMP, DoD Impact Level 4/5 authorization, or securing AI/ML workloads.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees primarily work from an Applied Intuition office five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility; this expectation does not apply to contractors.
  • Benefits may include health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.
  • The role includes approximately 10% business travel as required by the company or customer.

Salary: $160k - $225k/yr

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, t...

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