Westport Partners

About the Role: Westport Partners (www.westportpartners.com) is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team as a full-time employee supporting a critical federal contract. In this role, you will be the driving force behind our DevSecOps initiatives, specifically focusing on integrating advanced security tools and automating security checks within a GitLab environment.

If you have a strong background in GitLab CI/CD, API integrations, and a passion for securing modern AI-native development workflows, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mature DevSecOps initiatives within the enterprise GitLab environment.
• Integrate Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools—specifically Wiz and BigID—seamlessly with GitLab.
• Design, build, and maintain automated GitLab workflows to strictly gate code promotion based on rigorous security checks and compliance parameters.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive, hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps practices directly within GitLab.
• Proven track record of building complex GitLab CI/CD pipelines that enforce security checks prior to code promotion.
• Strong experience engineering and implementing API integrations with GitLab.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience integrating DSPM tools (e.g., BigID, Wiz) with GitLab environments.
• Experience detecting and securing sensitive information within AI-native artifacts (e.g., agent skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations).
• Familiarity with modern AI tooling and concepts, including MCP, AI coding assistants, prompt engineering artifacts, agent frameworks, and mitigating software supply chain risks.

Clearance & Eligibility Requirements:

• Citizenship: Must be a US Citizen. We are unable to sponsor for permanent residency (Green Cards) for this position.
• Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance, which requires successful fingerprinting and a comprehensive background investigation.
• Location: While this position is fully remote, the employee must be physically located in the Eastern time zone of the United States.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Standard Requirement: Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Note on Years of Experience: Exceptions to these requirements may be considered for candidates holding a Master's degree or higher, or those with exceptionally relevant specialized experience.

Founded in 2021 and backed by more than two decades of experience with both state and federal agencies, Westport Partners provides custom, collaborative IT solutions with an eye towards federal IT modernization. We excel at providing high-performing Agile delivery expertise across the entire software delivery lifecycle and at all levels of experience, with a focus on mid-level and executive. Our leadership understands and values the importance of communication, collaboration and, above all, delivery, and it shows in both how we partner with organizations and how we run our company.

Offering competitive health and retirement benefits, as well as remote work options, Westport Partners is an ideal place for you to grow your career in a way that includes room for true work/life balance. We have multiple positions undergoing staffing at the moment.