DevSecOps Engineer
About this role
About Metron
Metron is an employee-owned company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for the most challenging national security problems. For over 40 years, our principled approach to problem-solving has yielded creative solutions at the intersection of advanced mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering. Our people are leaders in their technical fields and are passionate about solving challenging problems. We look for individuals who share this same passion and can apply their experience in real-world settings.
Job Description:
Our Reston, VA office is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to help secure and improve software delivery across the enterprise. This role focuses on embedding security, quality, compliance, and software supply-chain controls into CI/CD workflows while partnering with software development, cybersecurity, platform engineering, systems engineering, and program teams.
This is an engineering role, not a pure governance or vulnerability-management position. The DevSecOps Engineer will work across Azure DevOps Server, Nexus, SonarQube, Kubernetes/K3s deployment workflows, artifact controls, and secure release patterns to help teams deliver software securely and reliably.
Occasional after-hours/weekend maintenance and emergency response may be required.
Key Responsibilities:
Secure CI/CD & Release Workflows
- Design, implement, and improve secure CI/CD patterns in Azure DevOps, including reusable YAML templates, quality gates, artifact controls, and release safeguards
- Support secure release workflows across development, test, integration, staging, and production environments
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, permissions issues, dependency problems, scan failures, and release blockers
Software Supply Chain & Security Controls
- Integrate security and quality checks into build and release workflows, including SAST, SCA, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, code-quality gates, container scanning, and artifact validation
- Support tools such as Nexus, SonarQube, Azure DevOps artifacts, and related code-quality or artifact-management platforms
- Partner with cybersecurity to align CI/CD controls with SSP, RMF, NIST, CMMC, STIG, Zero Trust, audit, and program requirements
Kubernetes Guardrails & Developer Enablement
- Partner with platform engineering on secure Kubernetes/K3s deployment standards, including namespaces, RBAC, ServiceAccounts, Helm, ingress, TLS, storage, quotas, and workload security
- Create documentation, examples, runbooks, and onboarding materials for secure pipeline and deployment workflows
- Track recurring developer pain points, pipeline health, scan outcomes, release blockers, and control gaps; turn findings into automation, templates, documentation, or improved guardrails
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, software delivery, systems engineering, or a closely related technical role
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, YAML, build/release workflows, repositories, artifacts, permissions, or agent-based builds
- Experience implementing security, quality, or compliance controls in CI/CD workflows
- Experience with secure software delivery practices such as SAST, SCA, dependency scanning, secrets handling, code-quality gates, artifact controls, or container scanning
- Experience troubleshooting CI/CD failures, build issues, deployment problems, permissions issues, or dependency-related errors
- Experience with Kubernetes, K3s, containers, Helm, or similar deployment technologies
- Experience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Ability to write clear technical documentation, runbooks, onboarding guides, and troubleshooting procedures
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
- Willing and able to work in regulated, secure, or compliance-bounded environments
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active U.S. security clearance
- Experience with Azure DevOps Server
- Experience integrating or administering Nexus, SonarQube, or similar artifact and code-quality platforms
- Experience with SBOM generation, SCA, container scanning, artifact signing, provenance, or software supply-chain security
- Experience with policy-as-code, OPA/Gatekeeper, Kubernetes admission controls, or secure workload policies
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code or Configuration-as-Code practices using Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar tools
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar observability platforms
- Experience in defense contracting, government programs, CMMC, NIST 800-171, RMF, STIGs, or other compliance-driven environments
Position Location: Reston, VA (the selected individual will be expected to work onsite in the Reston, VA office)
Perks and Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Accompanying FSA and HSA options
- Additional Voluntary Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 9 Observed Holidays and 2 Floating Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Military Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Annual Salary Reviews
- Profit Sharing
- 401(k) Traditional and Roth Options
- Gym and Fitness Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program
Metron is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religious, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
VEVRAA Federal Contractor
Company at a glance
Metron is an award-winning, trusted provider of advanced research, scientific, and software solutions for government and commercial markets.
The Company delivers a competitive edge for our customers in five key areas: analytics, autonomous solutions, decision support, sensor processing, and data fusion and target tracking. Recently, Metron launched an advanced edge capability development group to fast-track proven technologies into field-ready applications for DoD and Intelligence operations. With multi-domain expertise in probabilistic modeling, signal processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data fusion, Metron solutions transform information into intelligent action.
Since 1984, customers have turned to Metron for their most critical operations. The Company is employee-owned and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with US locations in Portland, Denver, San Diego, and Honolulu.
Metron: Lead, Innovate, Deploy, Impact.
Top Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- FSA
- HSA
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Military leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development reimbursement
- Profit sharing
- 401(k)
- Gym and fitness reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
- Employee referral program
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