Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Clearance Level: Secret
US Citizenship: Required
Job Classification: Full Time
Location: Boston Metro area

Years of Experience: 7-10 years

Education Level: Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree; or equivalent industry experience.

Position Description: The DevSecOps Engineer has extensive knowledge and hands-on experience integrating DevSecOps tools as part of an agile team to achieve Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of applications. The engineer should be at least a mid to senior level engineer capable of mentoring junior developers and engineers. The successful engineer will have experience building products and services that improve software developer feedback loops, time to-production, rollback strategies, CI/CD automation at an Individual Contributor level. The engineer should also possess effective communication skills to interact with various stakeholders internal and external to the organization.


Required Skills:

  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree; or equivalent industry experience.
  • Three-plus (3+) years of experience developing production software leveraging modern languages (including: Java, Python, Go, NodeJS, etc.)
  • One-plus (1+) years of experience developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, etc.
  • Three-plus (3+) years of experience with agile and lean software development philosophies.
  • One-plus (1+) years of experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc.
  • Two-plus (2+) years of demonstrated experience with modern version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc.
  • Clearable to a SECRET or above security clearance
  • CompTIA Security+ CE or other DoD 8570 IAT II certification, within 90 days
  • Six-plus (6+) years of experience leading teams of software engineers and extensive expertise in CI/CD implementation with proven track record of performance
  • Five-plus (5+) years of experience developing containerized services deployed on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
  • Five-plus (5+) years of demonstrated DevOps expertise leveraging Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies such as Gitlab (and Gitlab Runners), Jenkins, Concourse, CircleCI, etc.
  • Three-plus (3+) years of experience with Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform.
  • Five-plus (5+) years of experience building services using Cloud Infrastructure Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Two-plus (2+) years of experience securing applications via CI/CD pipelines leveraging static code analysis, unit and integration testing, dependency analysis, etc.