DevSecOps Engineer

Fortreum is a trusted leader in cloud and cybersecurity services ranked among the Top 5 FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAO). With the addition of we have expanded our capabilities to include advanced cyber risk quantification and analytics enabling organizations to better understand measure and communicate risk. Together we deliver independent third-party vendor-agnostic regulatory assessment and advisory services alongside advanced cybersecurity offensive and compliance technical solutions. Our comprehensive service portfolio spans regulatory compliance frameworks including FedRAMP CMMC FISMA SOC PCI ISO and HIPAA.

Working with Fortune 500 companies and leading cloud service providers weve built our reputation on service-delivery excellence and an unwavering commitment to client success. Our continued rapid growth creates exceptional opportunities for driven professionals to make their mark in the cybersecurity industryguided by our core values: quality above all a customer-driven mindset autonomy and personal accountability.

Fortreum is transforming how compliance gets done through the Kovr AI Platform our AI-native compliance automation the age of agentic AI Kovr applies intelligent autonomous workflows to the assessment and authorization lifecycle turning slow manual evidence-heavy compliance work into a faster repeatable and more reliable process. By automating artifact generation evidence and control mapping and continuous validation across frameworks such as FedRAMP CMMC SOC ISO and HIPAA the platform dramatically compresses assessment timelines and is setting a new standard for how organizations achieve and sustain compliance.

On our team you will have the opportunity to work with industry-leading experts whove supported the worlds most security-conscious organizations. As a DevSecOps Engineer you will embed with enterprise and federal customers to deploy integrate and operationalize the Kovr AI Platform within their environmentsbuilding integrations with their DevSecOps toolchains automating evidence collection and continuous monitoring and configuring compliance workflows that accelerate Authority to Operate (ATO). You will serve as the hands-on technical bridge between our customers and Kovrs engineering team solving complex deployment challenges across cloud hybrid and classified National Security and Intelligence Community (IC) environments..

• Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting rapid secure software delivery

• Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS with exposure to Azure/GCP) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) including module design and reusable patterns for the broader team

• Administer and scale containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS Helm ArgoCD)

• Implement and maintain security controls and monitoring aligned to NIST 800-53 and OSCAL-based frameworks

• Design observability strategy (logging metrics alerting SLOs) to support production reliability at scale

• Integrate DevOps tooling (GitHub JIRA Splunk Snyk) into automated compliance and remediation workflows

• Collaborate with existing engineering and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure changes maintain continuous authorization posture

• Support continuous monitoring and audit-readiness activities including evidence collection and control mapping

• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvement in deployment reliability

• Build and maintain documentation runbooks and architecture decision records

• Represent infrastructure/security in cross-functional planning including customer-facing technical conversations when needed

• 7 years of DevOps Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering experience

• Hands-on experience architecting AWS infrastructure using Terraform at scale

• Strong production experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar) including cluster design Helm Charts and GitHub/GitOps workflows

• Direct experience with FedRAMP CMMC NIST 800-53/800-171 or DoD SRG compliance environments

• Familiarity with OSCAL or other machine-readable compliance/documentation frameworks

• Experience integrating SAST/DAST or IaC security scanning into a pipeline

• Scripting/automation proficiency (Python Bash or similar)

• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup-within-a-company environment

• Local to Washington DC metro area
  

• Existing security or cloud certifications (Security AWS Certified Security CYSA CISSP)

• Experience integrating LLM coding agents MCPs and automations into DevOps workflows

• Prior experience holding or maintaining a Top Secret security clearance

• Background supporting federal DevSecOps deployments or highly regulated commercial clients Charts
  

$155000 - $205000 annual salary

What Fortreum Offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance/outcomes and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Our benefits package includes medical insurance dental insurance vision insurance 401K plan with a 4% match company paid short-term disability company paid long-term disability company paid AD&D and life insurance flex time off annual bonuses training stipends certification reimbursements access to over 30000 free online training courses personal cell phone allowance new hire and annual home office stipend spot awards and eleven paid holidays.

An Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer

Fortreum is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If youd like to view a copy of the companys affirmative action plan or policy statement please email If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application please e-mail or call . This email and phone number is created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes such as following up on an application or technical issues not related to a disability will not receive a response.

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Required Experience:

IC