Responsibilities:

The primary responsibilities of a DevSecOps Specialist include:

• CI/CD Pipeline Development and Management: Designing, deploying, and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
• Software Maintenance: Ensuring the deployed software product is configured and maintained in an automated fashion throughout its lifecycle.
• Security Integration: Embedding security practices into the development and deployment processes.
• Observability: Implementing monitoring and logging to ensure the software’s performance and security can be observed and analyzed.
• Collaboration: Working closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands on experience.
• Bachelors degree; degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related field preferred.
• Must have an active Secret security clearance.
• Must meet DoD 8140certification and work experience requirements:
• Security+ or IAT/IAM Level II or above equivalent such as CSSP.
• CKA, AWS Solutions Architect or AWS DevOps – Associate.
• Strong experience in demonstrating ability to work independently and hands-on across the entire DevSecOps pipeline tech stack.
• Experience in providing mentorship and leadership within a DevSecOps team
• Deep expertise in GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), IaC (Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE/AKS) at scale.
• Expert in CI/CD (GitLab/Pipelines), IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, Istio.
• Advanced troubleshooting without guidance across the stack (networking, DNS, TLS, authn/z, storage, runtime); strong root-cause analysis.
• Observability first: metrics/tracing/logs (Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana, OpenTelemetry); defines SLOs, alerts, runbooks.
• Security built-in: image scanning (Trivy/Anchore), policy-as-code, secrets management, supply-chain hardening.
• Thorough experience in working and delivering in an Agile environment while maintaining velocity.

Possesses demonstrated knowledge (mastery preferred) in the following tools and skills:

• Terraform.
• Kubernetes.
• AWS EKS, AWS ECS, AWS Security Hub.
• Docker.
• Podman.
• Jenkins.
• Istio or other service meshes.
• Helm, including maintenance and development of charts.
• Proficiency in Python to develop scripts, debug, and solve problems.
• GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or FluxCD).
• GitLab, GitHub.
• Atlassian Suite: JIRA, Confluence, Mattermost.
• Fortify, SonarQube.
• Container security, OS hardening, and repository management.
• Cloud native tools, including CNCF projects.
• CI/CD Pipelines developing automation.
• Help onboarding customer applications on the PaaS and Runtime environment.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Previous experience with DoD’s Clod One, Platform One, Big Bang, and/or Iron Bank.
• Previous AWS Cloud computing experience.
• Prior work for DOD and/or Federal agencies.

Pay Range: USD $165,000.00 - USD $180,000.00 /Yr. EEO:
PCI Federal Services (PCIFS) and its subsidiaries is an equal-opportunity employer. PCIFS does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.
Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates
in accordance with applicable federal law

• CI/CD Pipeline Development and Management: Designing, deploying, and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes.
• Software Maintenance: Ensuring the deployed software product is configured and maintained in an automated fashion throughout its lifecycle.
• Security Integration: Embedding security practices into the development and deployment processes.
• Observability: Implementing monitoring and logging to ensure the software’s performance and security can be observed and analyzed.
• Collaboration: Working closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline workflows and improve efficiency