DevSecOps Engineer

Job ID: 2614651

Location: North Charleston, SC, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-20

Category: Software

Subcategory: DevSecOps

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking DevSecOps Engineer to join our team. The DevSecOps Engineer can work at one of the following SAIC locations: San Diego, CA, Charleston, SC, or Panama City, FL.

Role Overview:

Role: Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation) for both connected and air-gapped environments.

Core Tooling: GitLab for source control and pipelines; Ansible as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments; MkDocs/ADRs for documentation.

Platform Stack: RKE2/Kubernetes on VMware/vSphere/NSX-T, with Rancher, Cilium networking, MetalLB/Traefik ingress, cert-manager, and BIND/DNS; Harbor as the container registry.

Delivery Expectations: trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans, evidence (JUnit/SBOM/scan) attached to every change, no manual “click-ops.”

Supply Chain and Air-Gap Hygiene: checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, RPM/PyPI mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments.

Security and Identity: secret hygiene by default, Keycloak/SSO integration familiarity, and comfort with vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).

Qualifications

Education Requirements:

Bachelors degree and five (5) years experience; Four (4) years' experience can be considered in lieu of degree.

Clearance Requirements:

Must possess an active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret / SCI clearance; US Citizenship required.

Required Skills:

Strong background deploying and managing Kubernetes.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Experience utilizing Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.

Familiarity with Keycloak and SSO itegration.

Desired Skills:

Load balancer/VIP experience (Keepalived, VyOS or Palo Alto), RHEL/WSUS patching familiarity, and strong documentation habits for handoffs and audits.