Devsecops Engineer

Devsecops Engineer

Deftec delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.

Position Overview

This role designs, deploys, and operates containerized services using orchestration frameworks to ensure scalability, reliability, and security across cloud environments. Implements infrastructure as code (Iac), site reliability engineering (Sre) practices, and zero-trust principles to support resilient, high-throughput architectures. Works within agile and devsecops frameworks to automate infrastructure, enforce compliance, and manage secure service communication, identity, and access across modern cloud and hybrid systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deploy and operate containerized services using orchestration frameworks to ensure scalability and resilience.
• Automate infrastructure through infrastructure as code (Iac) to provide consistent and repeatable environments.
• Deploy and monitor workloads in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, OpenStack).
• Implement site reliability engineering (Sre) and observability practices to ensure resilience, monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Support high-throughput and service-oriented architectures, ensuring resilient and scalable deployments.
• Deliver incremental capabilities in Agile and DevSecOps environments following frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban.
• Design and manage secure networking and service meshes (TLS, Istio, Linkerd, API gateways) to ensure encrypted and reliable service-to-service communication.
• Apply zero-trust principles and compliance automation to enforce security policies and validate system compliance.
• Manage identity and access using secure methods for secrets, tokens, certificates, and least-privilege access control.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Minimum 4 years of experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security validation.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Pulumi).
• Experience deploying and securing workloads in hybrid/public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, OpenStack).
• Experience implementing site reliability engineering and observability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience implementing scalable, resilient, high-throughput systems and service oriented architectures.
• Experience delivering capabilities in Agile/DevSecOps environments (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).
• Experience designing and managing secure networking and service mesh (TLS, Istio, Linkerd, API gateways).

Deftec offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The Deftec team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making Deftec an ideal workplace.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please get in touch with HR@deftec.com if you require reasonable accommodations.

Deftec is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.

Deftec Corp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, religious creed, disability (mental and physical) including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, age, marital status, civil union status, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, denial of family and medical care leave, arrest record and/or any other characteristic(s) protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment.

Other duties please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of the activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.