Entry Level Remote Public Relations Jobs in Virginia

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Future Need - Actively Interviewing

Location: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.

Build the secure delivery engine of a mission-critical Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cloud platform. As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will design and maintain secure, automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines integrating security scanning and compliance controls across thousands of pipelines supporting hundreds of applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud.

Position Description: The DevSecOps Engineer designs, implements, and maintains secure CI/CD pipelines integrating automated testing and security scanning into all build and release workflows.

Minimum/General Experience: 1 year of experience in DevSecOps engineering

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or related field; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Associate (preferred)

Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Excellent experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines (e.g., environment segregation across sandbox, staging, and production)
• Excellent ability to integrate automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security testing into all build and release workflows
• Excellent experience implementing automated container image builds, tagging, signing, and vulnerability scanning
• Excellent knowledge of Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and container scanning integration into pipelines
• Excellent ability to implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes-based deployments and automated scaling in an Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environment
• Experience supporting a federal agency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.

• Assignment Location - Remote
• Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
• Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
• Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.

Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:

• Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
• OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
• DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
• National Agency Check (NAC) records
• FBI name check
• FBI fingerprint check
• Credit report check
• Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
• Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
• Law enforcement check
• Court records check
• Education check - Attendance and Degrees

Acceptable Credentials

Tasks/activities include, but are not limited to:

• Designs, implements, documents, and maintains secure CI/CD pipelines aligned with approved design patterns supporting all assigned applications
• Integrates automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security testing into all build and release pipelines
• Implements automated container image builds, tagging, signing, and vulnerability scanning
• Ensures pipeline promotion enforces environment segregation
• Integrates SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and IaC scanning into pipelines
• Ensures vulnerabilities are identified and remediated within defined timelines
• Implements and maintains IaC for clusters, networking, identity, platform services, and cloud resources
• Supports automated environment provisioning, scaling, and teardown
• Collaborates with Product teams, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and Security teams to implement blue/green, canary, or rolling deployment strategies
• Validates system readiness prior to production deployments
• Validates post-deployment production testing to ensure capabilities and services are not degraded or disrupted following each release
• Maintains version control, artifact repositories, and build traceability across all environments supporting auditability of all builds and configuration changes
• Participates in Program Increment (PI) Planning, architecture reviews, and change management activities
• Evaluates and implements improvements to automation and deployment efficiency

Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $63,576 - $106,960 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.

Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.

Oxley Enterprises, Inc. is a certified service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVOSB), veteran-owned (VOSB), and woman-owned small business (WOSB) that has 26 years of experience building and delivering quality IT systems and programs. Oxley is ranked in the INC 5000 7 times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025). Oxley is a 2019 - 2025 Department of Labor HIRE Vets Medallion Award Winner. Oxley is Virginia Values Veterans certified.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position at Oxley Enterprises, Inc., please send an email to our Human Resources Department at: careers@oxleyenterprises.com with the following information:

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