DevSecOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

Position Overview

Valiant Solutions is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join its rapidly growing and innovative cybersecurity team. You will work with a smart DevSecOps team delivering cutting-edge solutions for a fantastic Government client. In this role you will apply solid DevOps/SRE principles, Kubernetes expertise, and cloud security skills to help engineer and harden new and existing architectures. This is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity at a company known for being one of the Best Places to Work in the Washington DC area for 11 consecutive years.

100% remote work is available as long as you maintain a distraction‐free workspace and adhere to our remote work policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule
• Integrate with application teams as a security SME and assist with connecting to new and existing security-related tooling
• Review and advise application teams on architectural decisions pertaining to security best practices
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Cloud Formations and Terraform
• Develop reusable automation using Ansible
• Create processes and automation to harden AMI and Docker Container Images
• Write and review Kubernetes Network and Service Mesh policies to establish secure inner cluster perimeters
• Assist the Security Organization with research and development of tooling to shift security into CI/CD pipelines
• Develop and enhance Jenkins and CircleCI code for new and existing CI/CD pipelines
• Conduct research and development on new Cloud offerings across various platforms
• Prepare example code, best practice documentation, and processes to support application and SecOps teams

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years IT experience
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or a related degree (or 3 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree)
• 2+ years working in Kubernetes environments including engineering deployment strategies, hardening the control plane and worker nodes, and implementing observability
• 2+ years developing in containerized environments
• 2+ years presenting technical solutions and organizing inter-team technical dependencies
• 4+ years in DevOps or DevSecOps roles, with hands-on experience in Ansible and Terraform
• 4+ years of Cloud Platform and Security Engineering experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) including AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes-related services, and cloud networking
• 2+ years in Security Engineering with proven experience in building and reviewing secure architectures

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and service mesh orchestration (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) in production environments
• Expertise in injecting security hardening and best practices into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management tools
• Experience managing and deploying CI/CD tools and artifact repositories to support DevOps culture

Benefits & Perks

• 99% Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage for full-time employees
• Valiant contributes 25% towards Health Coverage for family and dependents
• 100% Paid Short Term Disability and Life Insurance Policy for full-time employees
• 100% Paid Certifications
• 401K matching up to 4%
• Paid Time Off and Paid Federal Holidays
• 40 hours paid time to pursue innovation
• Wellness & Fitness Program
• Valiant University – Online Education and Training Portal
• Reimbursement for Public Transit and Parking
• FSA programs for Medical Costs, Dependent Care, Transit, and Parking
• Referral Bonuses
• Compensation: Salary in the $150,000 - $165,000 range, benchmarked against role scope, market rate, and internal equity, plus the comprehensive benefits listed above