Hybrid DevSecOps Engineer

at MetroStar

• Job title: DevSecOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $110,000 - $124,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Kubernetes
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• DevSecOps Engineer supporting secure, mission-critical platforms in a federal environment. Collaborates with developers and government stakeholders to deliver secure application capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Work in an agile environment as part of a small, integrated design and development team, participating in agile ceremonies and directly supporting government customers.
• Continuously improve client infrastructure and platform capabilities to support developers, data scientists, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Support development teams in deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting web applications and AI-enabled services in a secure environment progressing from IL2 to IL4+.
• Design, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support application delivery, experimentation, and secure software supply chains.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in containerization and DevSecOps, providing guidance on secure deployment patterns, platform services, and automation best practices.
• Automate provisioning of virtual machines and container platforms, enabling consistent, repeatable environments for development, testing, and deployment.
• Enable secure access to cloud services and internal capabilities via custom APIs, including token-based access controls and service-to-service authentication.
• Support secure experimentation environments, including notebooks and web-based IDEs (e.g., VS Code), while enforcing security and access controls.
• Implement and maintain secure package management, artifact repositories, and controlled dependency update processes.
• Support secure data transfer and access to segmented, secured environments, integrating SSO and role-based access controls across platform services.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health, performance, and availability using enterprise observability tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (required).
• Active Secret security clearance (required).
• 4+ years of experience in DevSecOps or DevOps roles supporting production systems.
• Strong experience developing and supporting server-side web applications and backend services.
• Experience integrating applications with custom APIs to dynamically consume data, services, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized applications in secure or regulated environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment patterns, including scaling, resilience, and secure configuration.
• Proficiency with CI/CD and automation tools such as GitLab CI, including pipeline optimization and security scanning.
• Experience managing, storing, and updating artifacts using secure artifact repositories.
• Experience deploying and operating services in AWS, including secure networking, IAM, and access controls.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog or Elastic Cloud.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
• Parental Leave and dependent care
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee assistance and wellness programs