DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid, with at least 3 days per week in an office in Arlington, VA; Mount Laurel, NJ; or Fall River, MA. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret U.S. Security Clearance are required. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Salary: $114,000–$231,000 per year, with ranges varying by experience, skills, and education.

Company

hirify.global develops mission-critical software and systems solutions for the U.S. government, including automation and digital engineering for complex defense systems.

What you will do

• Design, optimize, and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, and shared components.
• Automate security controls including SAST, SCA, container scanning, SBOM generation, and secrets detection.
• Configure and secure GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, staging clusters, backups, and software factory environments.
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code blueprints with Ansible and OpenTofu and orchestrate Podman-based containerized workloads.
• Deploy and harden DevSecOps platforms in secure, air-gapped environments while maintaining compliance with security teams.
• Improve developer experience through telemetry, build metrics, troubleshooting, and collaboration with software, security, and systems engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of professional experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, platform, systems, or software engineering with a strong focus on automation or platform administration.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain an active Secret U.S. Security Clearance.
• Experience with Jenkins or another CI/CD orchestrator, containerized workloads using Podman, Docker, or Kubernetes, and IaC using Ansible, OpenTofu, or similar tools.
• Intermediate Python, strong Linux/Unix Bash scripting, Git, secure SDLC practices, and systems-level troubleshooting experience.
• Strong communication skills and willingness to mentor engineers and enable software teams.

Nice to have

• SBOM auditing, open-source license compliance, or GPL/LGPL risk management experience.
• Local AI infrastructure experience, including GPU clusters, vLLM, or Qdrant in VPN-protected or air-gapped environments.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, pipeline diagnostics, or usage telemetry.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance and experience applying DISA STIGs or preparing environments for CMMC audits.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial culture with collaborative office environments.
• Competitive benefits package, PTO, and paid holidays.
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and matching.
• Optional 9/80 schedule, with the second and fourth Friday off each month.
• Tuition assistance, professional development resources, commuter benefits, and social and technical events.