Site Reliability Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer

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Site Reliability Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Washington, DC; Denver, CO; or Colorado Springs, CO preferred (hybrid). Highly qualified candidates outside these locations may also be considered for unclassified work.

Work Authorization: U.S. citizenship required

Clearance: An active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph is strongly preferred. Candidates without an active clearance may be considered for unclassified work but must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Salary Range: $145,000–$250,000 USD, dependent on experience level and location

About the Role

We're looking for a SRE/DevSecOps Engineer to build and own the secure delivery pipeline for an AI/ML platform deployed into tightly controlled environments. This is a role for someone who treats security as something you build into the delivery path, not something you inspect for at the end of it.

You own the supply chain end to end — pipelines that produce hardened, signed release artifacts with a software bill of materials attached, with scanning, policy enforcement, and secrets handling built into the path rather than bolted alongside it. That path has to survive promotion into isolated and limited-connectivity environments, which means it works when the network doesn't and can prove what it shipped when nobody can reach back to check. It also has to produce the compliance evidence — audit and accreditation artifacts that fall out of the build automatically instead of getting assembled by hand under deadline.

Reliability comes with the territory. Once the platform is deployed, you're part of keeping it healthy: observability, alerting, and incident response are shared work on this team, and the person who built the release path is usually the one who can tell you what changed.

The engineers who do well here have worked inside a formal compliance framework and know the difference between a pipeline that passes a security review and one that produces the review. Experience packaging or promoting software into air-gapped or otherwise disconnected environments matters a lot — it's the part that's hardest to learn on the fly.

This position is contingent upon contract award. Travel of up to 15% may be required, primarily to Government facilities and between company locations. Unclassified work may be performed remotely, while classified promotion and validation activities require onsite work in an accredited facility and the appropriate security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

Build and operate the CI/CD pipeline that produces versioned, signed release packages with SBOM manifests, hardened container images, deployment runbooks, and validation procedures for each promotion gate

Execute the recurring low-to-high promotion cadence through Government-approved transfer mechanisms, including cross-domain solution submission packages, and verify environment parity after each promotion

Integrate vulnerability management, image signing, dependency scanning, and continuous monitoring into the pipeline so accreditation evidence is generated once and reused at each promotion

Work with the program's security engineers to keep pipeline outputs aligned to the RMF body of evidence

Define and track service level objectives, and build monitoring, logging, and alerting with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Lead incident response and run postmortems to closure

Operate sanitized defect and telemetry feedback paths so issues observed in production environments are reproduced and fixed where the full toolchain is available

Enforce the constraint that platform dependencies are limited to services confirmed available in the target environments, with development-only dependencies gated behind feature flags

Maintain deployment runbooks, validation procedures, and operational documentation to a standard suitable for Government review and for execution by other cleared personnel

Required Skills & Experience

U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

6+ years of experience in DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or production operations

3+ years of experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or similarly regulated programs

Hands-on experience packaging or promoting software into classified, air-gapped, or limited-connectivity environments

Strong Kubernetes and cloud operations experience, including operating containerized production workloads in AWS

Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices for regulated environments, including hardened containers, image signing, software bill of materials generation, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring

Experience working within the Risk Management Framework or a comparable security and compliance framework

Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or a comparable language

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, or equivalent technologies

Experience implementing or operating production observability stacks and participating in incident response

Current DoD 8140/8570 qualifying certification, such as CISSP or CASP+, or the ability to obtain an appropriate certification within 90 days of hire

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Have

Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph

Experience with classified cloud environments, including AWS Secret or Top Secret regions

Experience with Kubernetes platforms commonly used within Department of Defense or Intelligence Community environments

Experience implementing or operating under a continuous Authority to Operate model

Experience automating security evidence and continuous-monitoring pipelines

Familiarity with cross-domain solutions, guards, data diodes, or comparable transfer mechanisms and their packaging requirements

Experience supporting machine learning, AI, or GPU-accelerated workloads in production

Experience supporting rapid prototyping programs or defense innovation initiatives

What We Offer

Medical, Dental & Vision – 100% paid for employees, 75% for dependents

401(k) Match – Up to 5% with full vesting after 2 years

Unlimited PTO – With a required minimum of 15 days off annually

Fully Remote Setup – Includes up to $3,000 equipment reimbursement

Continuous Education – Includes up to $500 reimbursement

Disability & Life Insurance – 100% employer-paid

HSA & FSA Options – With monthly HSA contributions from OpenTeams

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We believe the best careers are built at the edge of your potential. That is where new tools, ideas, and technologies change the world. Here, you’ll work alongside pioneers of AI, solving problems that matter: making AI more transparent, more ethical, and more empowering. As your skills grow, our career framework provides a pathway and recognition of that increased impact.

Opportunities aren’t limited by geography. You’ll collaborate with global experts, contribute to open source projects that power the world’s technology, and stretch your skills daily. That global perspective and diversity makes