Aws Devsecops Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

DEVOPS ENGINEER PRINCIPAL

GDIT is looking for a Engineer AWS (DevSecOpsChampion) a senior technical rolesupporting DOJ Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) / National Coordination Center (NCC).This role leads secure CI/CD andDevSecOpspractices for AWS-based solutions, designing and governing pipelines and automation that embed security, compliance, and risk management into the delivery lifecycle formissioncriticalsystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce secure CI/CD andDevSecOpsstandards, patterns, and guardrails for AWS-hosted applications, in alignment with GDIT Cyber Security Policy, Cyber Security Handbook, and Cloud/Security standards.

• Design, build, andmaintainCI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWSCodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with integrated security scanning, compliance checks, approvals, and testing.

• Leadinfrastructureascode(IaC) implementations (CloudFormation, Terraform) with embedded security and configuration baselines, supporting secure provisioning of AWS environments.

• Automate secure environment provisioning, configuration, and deployments across development, test, and production AWS accounts, in line with cyber and IT risk management requirements.

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, centralized logging) to support secure, observable, and auditable delivery pipelines.

• Integrate identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls into CI/CD workflows as part ofDevSecOpspractices.

• Ensure CI/CD pipelines and AWS solutionscomply withapplicable contractual and regulatory requirements (e.g., NIST 80053/171, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 27001) and internal cyber standards.

• Collaborate with application development, cloud platform, cyber security, IT risk, and operations teams to ensure architectures are DevSecOps-ready and align with secure development standards.

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and documentation for project teams adoptingDevSecOpsand secure CI/CD practices; develop reusable secure pipeline templates and patterns.

• Support proposals, technical reviews, and risk assessments where secure CI/CD, cloud security, andDevSecOpscapabilities arerequired, including input to labor category mapping and staffing.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cyber Security, or related field; or equivalent experience.

• Typically8+ years of relevant IT experience, withsignificant experiencein DevOps/DevSecOpsand CI/CD for production systems.

• Handsonexperience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch/CloudTrail) insecuritysensitiveor regulated environments.

• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using one or more modern platforms (AWSCodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).

• Strong experience withinfrastructureascode(e.g.CloudFormation, Terraform) and secure configuration management and automation.

• Demonstrated experience promoting signed builds into an air-gapped, classified, or otherwise network-isolated target environment, including artifact transfer procedures and post-deployment verification.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g.Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes) including security aspects (image scanning, runtime security, least privilege).

• Demonstrated experience integrating security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows (DevSecOps).

• Experience working under formal security and risk frameworks (e.g., NIST 80053/171, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 27001,customerspecificcyber requirements).

• Strong communicationand collaboration skills, with ability to work across cyber, risk, engineering, and program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Certified Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect).

• Security/DevSecOpscertifications.

• Experience supporting or implementing secure cloud architectures.

• Experience in enterpriseDevSecOpsor security transformation initiatives, or in a cloud/cyber center of excellence.

• Experience withmultiaccountAWS Organizations, landing zones, and centralized security/governance services.

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