Contract Performance Period : March 3, 2026 - December 31, 2026
Job Location : Washington, DC - Onsite beginning day 1 at Client location(s) in Washington, DC., On Site 5 days per week, required.
Direct Hire : Term: through 31/12/2026, with the possibility of extension
Pay Range : Depending on Experience
Travel Requirements : Washington, DC - Onsite beginning day 1 at Client location(s) in Washington, DC. required, OnSite 5 days per week.
Working Remotely : Washington, DC - Onsite beginning day 1 at Client location(s) in Washington, DC. required, On Site 5 days per week.
Project Description :
Seeking Sr. IT DevSecOps Engineer who will help build GitLab-based DevSecOps automated pipelines into AWS gov cloud; support and enable application delivery times on CI/CD platform; manage and operate GitLab CI/CD. Period of Performance: March 3, 2026 as soon as possible through December 31, 2026, with possibility for extension
Qualification Requirements :
Version Control Systems • Proficiency with Git • Advanced knowledge of GitLab, including CI/CD pipelines, merge requests, and issue tracking • Familiarity with branching, promotion, and release strategies (such as SemRel) • Familiarity using internalized registries and repositories (Nexus dependency management, internal container registries, etc.) CI/CD • GitLab CI/CD • GitLab runners (configuration and management) • GitLab components (Or generally developing and utilizing templates for CI/CD jobs in any platform, such as GitHub Actions) Cloud Platforms • Demonstrated proficiency with AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, EBS/EFS, ECS, EKS, SNS, CloudWatch) Containerization • Docker (building, deploying, and managing containers) • Kubernetes (orchestration, deployment strategies, security, troubleshooting) • Container security best practices • Including container hardening strategies, such as maintaining a secure “golden” image • Deploying and managing container-based runners hosted on EKS • GitOps tools and deployment principles (such as ArgoCD/Flux) Security Testing • Static Application Security Testing (SAST) • Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) • Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) • Software Composition Analysis (SCA) • Container scanning tooling (Trivy, Prisma/Twistlock, Neuvector, etc..) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • Terraform (writing, managing, and optimizing Terraform configurations) • Other IaC tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Ansible) ** U.S. citizenship is required.
Skills Requirements :
Scripting and Programming • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) • Basic to intermediate programming skills • Experience working with a Linux-based shell, managing way around a Linux-based system Certification: GitLab certification desired, but not required. AWS certification desired, but not required.
Responsibilities :
• Build GitLab-based DevSecOps automated pipelines into AWS gov cloud; support and enable application delivery times on CI/CD platform; manage and operate GitLab CI/CD. • Ability to work well in a paired programming environment at times Automation • Creating and maintaining automated security checks and remediations • Integrating security into automated deployment processes • Incorporating linting tooling into development processes • Incorporating unit & performance testing into deployment processes
Job ID : 1517
Job Location : Washington, DC - Onsite beginning day 1 at Client location(s) in Washington, DC., On Site 5 days per week, required.
Direct Hire : Term: through 31/12/2026, with the possibility of extension
Pay Range : Depending on Experience
Travel Requirements : Washington, DC - Onsite beginning day 1 at Client location(s) in Washington, DC. required, OnSite 5 days per week.
Working Remotely : Washington, DC - Onsite beginning day 1 at Client location(s) in Washington, DC. required, On Site 5 days per week.
Project Description :
Seeking Sr. IT DevSecOps Engineer who will help build GitLab-based DevSecOps automated pipelines into AWS gov cloud; support and enable application delivery times on CI/CD platform; manage and operate GitLab CI/CD. Period of Performance: March 3, 2026 as soon as possible through December 31, 2026, with possibility for extension
Qualification Requirements :
Version Control Systems • Proficiency with Git • Advanced knowledge of GitLab, including CI/CD pipelines, merge requests, and issue tracking • Familiarity with branching, promotion, and release strategies (such as SemRel) • Familiarity using internalized registries and repositories (Nexus dependency management, internal container registries, etc.) CI/CD • GitLab CI/CD • GitLab runners (configuration and management) • GitLab components (Or generally developing and utilizing templates for CI/CD jobs in any platform, such as GitHub Actions) Cloud Platforms • Demonstrated proficiency with AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, EBS/EFS, ECS, EKS, SNS, CloudWatch) Containerization • Docker (building, deploying, and managing containers) • Kubernetes (orchestration, deployment strategies, security, troubleshooting) • Container security best practices • Including container hardening strategies, such as maintaining a secure “golden” image • Deploying and managing container-based runners hosted on EKS • GitOps tools and deployment principles (such as ArgoCD/Flux) Security Testing • Static Application Security Testing (SAST) • Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) • Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) • Software Composition Analysis (SCA) • Container scanning tooling (Trivy, Prisma/Twistlock, Neuvector, etc..) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • Terraform (writing, managing, and optimizing Terraform configurations) • Other IaC tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Ansible) ** U.S. citizenship is required.
Skills Requirements :
Scripting and Programming • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) • Basic to intermediate programming skills • Experience working with a Linux-based shell, managing way around a Linux-based system Certification: GitLab certification desired, but not required. AWS certification desired, but not required.
Responsibilities :
• Build GitLab-based DevSecOps automated pipelines into AWS gov cloud; support and enable application delivery times on CI/CD platform; manage and operate GitLab CI/CD. • Ability to work well in a paired programming environment at times Automation • Creating and maintaining automated security checks and remediations • Integrating security into automated deployment processes • Incorporating linting tooling into development processes • Incorporating unit & performance testing into deployment processes
Job ID : 1517
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