Senior DevSecOps Security Specialist

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior DevSecOps Security Specialist (Individual Contributor)

• Focus: Security engineering + compliance traceability for cloud modernization

• Work arrangement: Fully remote

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Description

Embed in delivery teams as a hands-on security engineering and compliance traceability owner. You will write and review code in GitLab and translate implemented technical work into NIST 800-53 control evidence for auditors and authorizing officials. Drive ATO efforts through the RMF lifecycle and triage/remediate security findings using CNAPP tooling.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to engineering by writing code and reviewing merge requests in GitLab

• Map technical implementations to NIST 800-53 control evidence and defend mappings to assessors

• Drive ATO efforts across the RMF lifecycle from control selection through continuous monitoring

• Operate CNAPP and other security tooling hands-on to triage findings and lead remediation

• Use automation and AI to answer security-traceability questions quickly and defensibly

• Communicate clearly and manage priorities in a fast-paced Agile environment

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field

• 5+ years total experience including hands-on work as an individual contributor in a DevSecOps role

• Strong DevSecOps fundamentals: CI/CD security, IaC, shift-left security practices

• Deep Linux expertise

• Hands-on GitLab experience (contributing code and reviewing merge requests)

• 5+ years AWS experience including EKS

• 2+ years ATO experience with solid command of the RMF lifecycle

• Fluency in NIST 800-53 taxonomy with ability to trace an implementation to specific controls

• Hands-on CNAPP platform experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication and self-sufficient workload ownership

Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement

• U.S. government contractor role supporting mission-critical weather systems modernization