DevSecOps Engineer (5470) (Boulder, CO) (Secret) at SMX
Boulder, CO
$145,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Boulder, CO
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevSecOps Engineer role supporting Space Force remote sensing ground systems, focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, managing containerized application deployments across development and production environments, and ensuring cybersecurity compliance. The work involves Helm charts, artifact management, version control workflows, and integration of security scanning — suited to someone with solid hands-on pipeline and container experience who holds an active DoD Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · Boulder, CO · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $168,179 (middle half $132,051–$211,194). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'DevSecOps Engineer' with no explicit seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is therefore Unspecified. The 5+ years of hands-on experience requirement and the scope of responsibilities (CI/CD pipeline ownership, multi-environment deployments, release management) support a Senior classification.
An active Interim DoD Secret clearance is a hard gate; a TS/SCI-eligible clearance is listed under Desired Skills and is therefore preferred, not required.
Bash and Python are listed together as a single scripting requirement under Required Skills. They are captured as separate skills with each listed as an alternative for the other, reflecting that the posting treats them as a combined scripting capability.
The ELK stack is listed as 'OpenShift/ELK' in the Desired section. 'ELK' is represented here by its primary component Elasticsearch; Logstash and Kibana are implied but not individually named.
Helm charts appear in both the Essential Duties (implement and maintain Helm charts) and the Desired Skills section. Because the only explicit skills gate is the Required Skills block — and Helm is not listed there — it is treated as preferred.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and maintains CI/CD pipelines and automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a meaningful infrastructure operations and deployment component that could support 15-1244.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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