DevSecOps Engineer Principal

  • SAIC
  • VA
  • Oct 21, 2026

Job Description

Description
SAIC is seeking a high energy, detailed-oriented, and experienced DevSecOps (DSO) Engineer to support our Department of the Air Force customer. As a DSO, you will play a critical role in configuring, deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud environments in support of our nation's most challenging national security missions. This position is located ONSITE in Reston, VA.
Responsibilities:
  • Design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure cloud products and services within a cloud-based environment to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible
  • Maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build/ integration infrastructure
  • Provide Source Control Management/Documentation, create and maintain fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments; write, build and deploy scripts
  • Support CI/CD tools integration, operations, change management, and maintenance. Support full automation of CI/CD testing
  • Support policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers
  • Enable successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production
  • Work closely with software developers, production support, and information security to automate and support infrastructure and tooling in cloud-based platforms
  • Provide guidance and apply agile and DevOps/DevSecOps practices to streamline product delivery and reliable operations of product
  • Continuously identify opportunities to automate and increase efficiency

Qualifications
  • Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
  • US Citizenship
  • Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI
  • Proven background working in DevOps software development environments with specific experience and knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
  • Software Program Management / Acquisition
  • Agile software development with Scrum or Kanban
  • Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence
  • CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, or MS Azure
  • Cloud - Platform One
  • Cross Domain Solutions
  • C-ATO
  • Multi-Level Security Networks (MLS / MILS)
  • Containerization with Docker or Red Hat Podman
  • Container management with Kubernetes and Helm
  • Security automation

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.