Senior DevSecOps Engineer at Steampunk
McLean, VA
$150,000–$185,000from the description
Aug 9, 2026
McLean, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior DevSecOps Engineer role at a federal contracting firm, focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud automation in support of government clients across Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD sectors. The position involves writing automation code, integrating security and test tooling into delivery pipelines, containerizing workloads, and mentoring teammates — all as an individual contributor within an Agile environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (8)
No work location is specified in the posting. Given the federal contracting context (Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, DoD sectors) and the clearance requirement, the role is likely in the Washington, DC metro area, but this is not stated — no CBSA has been set.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance' — not a specific level. This is treated as a gate (candidate must be clearable), mapped to Secret as the most common baseline for federal contractor roles; the actual level required may differ.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in an IT field OR a Bachelor's in a non-IT field plus 2 years of related IT experience. Because a degree is always required (experience substitutes only for the field of study, not the degree itself), this is marked as requiring a Bachelor's.
The required skills section names 'one or more programming or scripting languages' without specifying which — no generic skill was emitted for this; specific languages appear under the preferred section (Bash, Python, PowerShell, Groovy, Ruby) and are marked preferred accordingly.
Infrastructure as Code is listed as a required skill with 5+ years; specific tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Pivotal) appear only under the preferred section and are marked preferred.
Agile is listed as part of the required DevSecOps experience qualifier and is included as a required skill reflecting that gate.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships automation code and pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant infrastructure operations and security posture 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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