DevSecOps CICD Engineer

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton is seeking a DevSecOps / CI/CD Engineer to design implement and maintain secure software delivery pipelines for a mission-critical enterprise platform supporting an Intelligence Community customer. The platform provides a standardized development and deployment environment across multiple classified enclaves built on a zero trust hub-and-spoke architecture.

In this role you will independently develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines that automate software builds testing security validation artifact management and deployment. You will integrate security controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle implement reusable automation and help establish consistent delivery practices across platform services and tenant applications.

Working closely with platform engineering cybersecurity integration and test and operations teams you will help improve software delivery speed reliability and security while generating the technical evidence needed to support RMF authorization and continuous ATO. Your work will directly contribute to delivering secure dependable capabilities to mission users.

Pipeline Engineering and Automation

• Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform services infrastructure components and tenant applications using GitLab CI Jenkins GitHub Actions Argo CD or similar technologies.

• Automate software builds testing packaging artifact management and deployment to containerized environments using Kubernetes EKS OpenShift or similar platforms.

• Implement GitOps practices including source control management branching strategies release versioning and declarative deployment workflows.

• Develop reusable pipeline templates shared automation and self-service tooling to standardize workflows and accelerate development team onboarding.

• Implement infrastructure and deployment automation using Terraform Ansible Helm or similar tools.

• Troubleshoot complex pipeline failures and improve build test and deployment processes across development and production environments.

Security Integration and Continuous Authorization

• Integrate automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines including SAST DAST software composition analysis container image scanning secrets detection and code quality checks.

• Implement processes for managing hardened base images approved artifact repositories and secure software dependencies.

• Generate and maintain SBOMs security scan results and other pipeline artifacts supporting RMF authorization auditability and continuous ATO.

• Implement secure artifact versioning validation and promotion processes across environments coordinating with cross-domain engineering teams when transfers between classification levels are required.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity personnel to remediate pipeline security findings and improve compliance with established security requirements.

• Support the integration of security policies and automated enforcement mechanisms into software delivery workflows.

Pipeline Operations and Optimization

• Monitor pipeline health performance reliability and execution metrics to identify and resolve recurring issues.

• Track and analyze delivery metrics including deployment frequency lead time for changes change failure rate and recovery time.

• Identify and implement improvements to pipeline efficiency reliability repeatability and security.

• Coordinate release planning and deployments with platform engineering integration and test cybersecurity and operations teams.

• Document pipeline architectures configurations operational procedures and troubleshooting guidance.

• Provide technical guidance to development teams adopting standardized DevSecOps practices and automated delivery workflows.

Location: This position is fully onsite in Chantilly VA.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field plus 5 years of relevant experience; additional 4 years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree.

• Hands-on experience independently designing building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in a production environment.

• Experience automating software builds testing artifact management and deployment to containerized environments using Docker Kubernetes or similar technologies.

• Experience integrating automated security scanning into CI/CD pipelines including application security testing dependency analysis container scanning or secrets detection.

• Proficiency with Git and scripting languages such as Bash or Python.

• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code and deployment automation using Terraform Ansible Helm or similar technologies.

• DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification such as Security CE or the ability to obtain the required certification within the applicable timeframe.

• Experience delivering software across multiple classified enclaves or disconnected environments.

• Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community software factories hardened container image programs or continuous ATO processes.

• Familiarity with zero trust architecture and policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno.

• Experience managing artifact repositories such as Artifactory Nexus or Harbor and code quality platforms such as SonarQube.

• Experience with observability tools for monitoring pipeline performance and deployed services.

• Kubernetes certification such as CKA CKAD or CKS and/or a cloud professional certification.

• Prior experience supporting Intelligence Community or DoD mission programs.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical dental vision life health savings account short/long term disability EAP parental leave 401(k) paid time off (PTO) for vacation and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at Statements