DevSecOps Engineer- Secret Clearance Eligibility Required

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
• Have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches.
• Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
• Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.
• Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.
• Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
• Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.
• Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working within AWS environments.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, build engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong knowledge of Git, including branching strategies and tagging workflows.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6, we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas.

Qualities of Exceptional Candidates

• Experience integrating automated security scans and documentation into CI/CD pipelines or IT workflows.
• Experience with SageMaker.
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Experience working within DoD or government environments.
• Familiarity with DISA STIGs and automated compliance scanning.
• MLOps experience.