DevSecOps Systems Administrator

DevSecOps / Systems Administrator

Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI with CI Polygraph required

Salary Range: $210K-$228K

The Opportunity

We are hiring an experienced DevSecOps / Systems Administrator to help build, secure, automate, and operate mission-critical technology environments supporting national security objectives.

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of DevSecOps, systems administration, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, automation, and systems integration. You'll work across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped environments while ensuring security is integrated throughout the software development and operational lifecycle.

A key part of the role involves supporting the secure movement and processing of data-from front-end applications through back-end services and downstream systems-while maintaining the security, reliability, and compliance required in sensitive environments.

If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure and security challenges and working alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams, this role offers an opportunity to apply that expertise to systems where performance and security matter.

What You'll Do

DevSecOps & Security

You'll help integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle while improving the automation, security, and reliability of development and deployment processes.

You'll:

• Design, implement, secure, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate security controls, testing, and best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Automate application security testing, vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and deployment activities.
• Incorporate security tools into development, build, testing, and release workflows.
• Assess the security of new and existing applications, systems, and infrastructure.
• Identify, prioritize, document, and support remediation of security vulnerabilities.
• Implement applicable security frameworks, policies, standards, and industry best practices.
• Monitor systems and infrastructure for vulnerabilities, security incidents, configuration issues, and emerging threats.
• Develop technical solutions that satisfy system-security and data-protection requirements.
• Establish and maintain DevSecOps procedures, technical standards, and security best practices.

Systems & Infrastructure Administration

You'll work hands-on with the infrastructure supporting development and operational systems.

You'll:

• Build, configure, secure, administer, and maintain physical and virtual servers.
• Support cloud-based, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped computing environments.
• Administer operating systems, system configurations, user access, permissions, patching, backups, and system availability.
• Implement and maintain encryption for data at rest and in transit.
• Monitor network, server, application, and infrastructure health, performance, reliability, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex system, network, application, integration, and deployment issues.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions that create secure, consistent, and repeatable environments.
• Support system hardening, configuration management, change management, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Assist with the integration and administration of Cross Domain Solutions and other controlled data-transfer technologies, as applicable.

Dataflow & Systems Integration

You'll help ensure information moves securely and reliably across interconnected systems and security boundaries.

You'll:

• Design, implement, and support dataflow architectures that securely move information from front-end systems through back-end services and downstream processing environments.
• Analyze system interfaces, data dependencies, processing requirements, and security boundaries.
• Support secure data exchanges across applications, networks, cloud environments, and external systems.
• Partner with software, hardware, and systems engineering teams to integrate components and resolve technical dependencies.
• Ensure data-handling solutions meet applicable security, encryption, access-control, and operational requirements.

Compliance & Authorization

You'll support the security authorization and compliance activities required to operate systems in highly controlled environments.

You'll:

• Support Authorization to Operate (ATO) activities and associated security documentation.
• Assist with security-control implementation, assessments, evidence collection, remediation tracking, and audit preparation.
• Develop and maintain system policies, procedures, diagrams, configuration records, and other technical documentation.
• Work with cybersecurity, engineering, customer, and program stakeholders to address compliance requirements and authorization findings.
• Help ensure system configurations and operational practices remain aligned with applicable security frameworks and organizational policies.

Collaboration & Operational Support

This is a multidisciplinary role requiring close collaboration across engineering, cybersecurity, customers, and operations.

You'll:

• Partner with software engineers, hardware engineers, systems engineers, cybersecurity personnel, customers, and operational support teams.
• Provide technical guidance throughout system design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and operational implementation.
• Promote shared responsibility for security across development, engineering, and operations teams.
• Clearly communicate technical risks, vulnerabilities, system requirements, and recommended solutions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Support production deployments, system upgrades, incident response, troubleshooting, and operational transition activities.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend improvements to security, automation, scalability, reliability, and system performance.

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, cybersecurity, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in DevSecOps, systems administration, cloud engineering, cybersecurity engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps principles, secure software development practices, and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and version-control technologies.
• Experience with technologies such as:
• Ansible
• Jenkins
• Terraform
• Git and GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• Artifactory
• Jira
• Black Duck
• Comparable DevSecOps, security, and automation platforms
• Experience building, configuring, securing, and maintaining servers and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience working in cloud-based, on-premises, hybrid, or air-gapped environments.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management, secure configuration, access control, encryption, system hardening, and security monitoring.
• Familiarity with information-security frameworks, security controls, and compliance standards.
• Experience developing technical documentation, operating procedures, security policies, or authorization materials.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholder groups.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional experience that would be valuable includes:

• 8+ years of experience in DevSecOps, systems administration, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or related roles.
• Ability to obtain SAP access or previous experience holding SAP access.
• Experience supporting SOCOM or organizations within the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community.
• Experience supporting highly regulated, government, defense, or other security-sensitive environments.
• Experience with Authorization to Operate processes and security-control documentation.
• Experience with Cross Domain Solutions or secure data-transfer systems.
• Experience designing or supporting dataflow architectures spanning front-end applications, back-end services, and downstream processing systems.
• Experience supporting disconnected, restricted, or air-gapped environments.
• Knowledge of containerization, orchestration, artifact management, automated code scanning, and software supply-chain security.
• Experience integrating static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), software-composition analysis, and infrastructure scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Relevant technical or cybersecurity certifications.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: $210K-$228K

The benefits package includes:

• Premium medical coverage.
• Tricare Supplement Plan - 100% employer-paid for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Dental and vision insurance - 100% employer-paid.
• Disability insurance - 100% employer-paid.
• $100,000 life insurance policy - 100% employer-paid.
• 401(k) with pre-tax or Roth options and company contributions of up to $5,000 per year.
• 15 PTO days plus 11 federal holidays.
• Up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
• Up to $5,250 per year for certifications, training, and education.
• Gym membership reimbursement of up to $50 per month, plus applicable wellness discounts.
• Pay differential for active-duty reserve service.

Make an Impact

We're looking for someone who can move comfortably between infrastructure, security, automation, and operations-someone who understands both how complex systems are built and how to keep them secure, reliable, and mission-ready.

If you bring strong DevSecOps and systems administration expertise and want to apply it within a highly secure technical environment, we'd like to hear from you.

Join us in building secure, resilient systems that support critical missions.