Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GDIT is a global technology and professional services company delivering technology solutions and mission services to government, defense, and intelligence customers. The DevSecOps Security Engineer will engineer automated security, compliance, and vulnerability-management workflows for a continuous ATO environment using AWS GovCloud, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling. The role also partners with development and platform teams, mentors engineers, and supports security automation, monitoring, evidence generation, and audit readiness.
Responsibilities
- Architect and automate security workflows across our CI/CD pipeline and compliance operations, reducing manual effort in vulnerability scan analysis, security inventory auditing, and continuous monitoring reporting
- Partner with development and platform teams to integrate, automate, and monitor security tool components (scan ingestion, finding triage, evidence generation) within automated pipelines
- Build automation for compliance and ATO artifacts, including continuous monitoring reports, SPIAs, and control evidence mapping against NIST 800-53 / 800-171
- Perform automated inventory delta analysis and drift detection across cloud accounts to maintain an accurate, auditable security posture
- Champion DevSecOps culture by mentoring junior/mid-level engineers, educating teams on modern security tooling, and resolving complex configuration or performance issues
- Leverage Generative AI engineering tools (such as Claude, Gemini, Copilot) to accelerate the development of security automation, compliance reporting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning workflows
- Define guidelines and standards for securing AWS Cloud and container environments, implementing advanced solutions for system security, logging, and audit correlation
- Drive engineering excellence by guiding the preparation of comprehensive technical documentation, processes, and procedures
Skills
- AWS Cloud Computing, CI/CD, DevSecOps
- 8 + years of related experience
- Yes
- Direct, hands-on experience managing the security portion of a DevSecOps pipeline in a continuous ATO (cATO) environment. Candidates must have owned automated security gates, control evidence, and compliance posture within a live continuous-authorization pipeline, not point-in-time ATO or general DevOps exposure
- BA/BS Degree and 8+ years of relevant experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
- Hands-on automation of compliance workflows: scan ingestion, finding triage, evidence generation, and continuous monitoring reporting
- Familiarity with AWS GovCloud security services (Security Hub, Inspector, GuardDuty, Config) and centralizing/correlating their findings, along with scanning and monitoring tooling such as Qualys, CrowdStrike, Nexus/Sonatype, SonarQube, and Datadog
- Experience building and scanning IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) for security and compliance
- Background in NIST 800-53 or 800-171 control implementation and evidence mapping; familiarity with FedRAMP and IAM
- Active Security+ Certification (or equivalent DoD 8570/8140 baseline)
- Demonstrated capability or strong desire to mentor junior/mid-level engineers, drive technical consensus, and serve as a technical anchor for the team
- Exceptional critical thinking skills with a proven track record of delivering simple, elegant solutions to highly complex security and compliance problems
- Highly effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to bridge technical concepts between development teams and program stakeholders
- A strong commitment to continuous learning, engineering best practices, and driving process improvements
- Less than 10%
- Remote
- Any Location / Remote
- Prior experience at a company that builds security products or DevSecOps tooling for software development, with a focus on cyber automation
- Experience with continuous monitoring automation and proactive compliance posture management
- Experience supporting a security audit cadence and evidence collection at scale
- Exposure to security analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks) for correlating and analyzing security telemetry at scale
- Strong proficiency in automation scripting (Python, Bash, or similar) for building internal security tooling; Linux/Unix administration (RHEL or CentOS preferred)
Benefits
- Full-flex work week
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and wellness packages
- 401(k) program with a competitive company match
- Paid advanced certifications
- Higher education support
- Dedicated professional growth opportunities
- Internal career mobility support from a dedicated internal talent team
- Generous paid vacation
- Floating holidays
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- 401(k) plan allowing pre-tax and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits with a company match
- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick, personal time, and holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Military leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
- Remote work option
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