Ardent
DevSecOps Engineer
Washington, D.C
Sponsorship not specified$53k-$800kDetected 2 days ago
PythonBashCode ReviewGitAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityAgileZero TrustCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Ardent is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, extend, and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and OpenTofu.
- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles to automate system configuration, compliance enforcement, patch management, and application deployment.
- Build, maintain, and enhance GitHub Actions workflows supporting automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment processes.
- Support containerized application delivery using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop and maintain Dockerfiles, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm charts following security and operational best practices.
- Implement and maintain security gates including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and policy-as-code validation.
- Support compliance and hardening initiatives aligned with CIS benchmarks, NIST standards, and organizational security baselines.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and configuration records.
- Support code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement efforts across infrastructure and software delivery pipelines.
- If you want to build something meaningful, while enjoying the kind of flexibility and support that you need to do your best work - Ardent is where your next mission begins.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or OpenTofu.
- Experience with Configuration as Code (CaC) using Ansible.
- Experience supporting containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience integrating security tools and controls into software delivery pipelines.
- Familiarity with SAST tools, secrets management, dependency scanning, and policy-as-code frameworks.
- Experience with Git-based development workflows, pull request reviews, and source code management practices.
- Ability to work independently while supporting multiple priorities in a collaborative environment.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting federal government or highly regulated environments.
- Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust security principles.
- Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience with secrets management platforms such as HashiCorp Vault.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
- Experience supporting Kubernetes security, container hardening, and compliance initiatives.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps best practices within enterprise-scale environments.
- Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.
Compensation
- We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gend
Benefits
- Support namespace management, RBAC configuration, cluster health monitoring, and container troubleshooting activities.
Company info
- At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job - they want to serve a mission that matters.
This listing is sourced directly from Ardent's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.