Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build, automate, and secure the software supply chain that delivers our products into a hardened AWS GovCloud environment. This is a full-time, in-office role for an experienced professional who combines a deep, practical understanding of modern CI/CD practices, container and artifact management, and security principles.

You will be the crucial link between our product engineering team and our cloud platform — owning the path from a developer's commit, through automated build, test, and security scanning, to a signed, packaged product published for deployment.

You will be a key enabler for our engineering teams, responsible for the stability, security, and efficiency of the digital infrastructure that connects our software to mission-critical space systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer the GitLab application and CI/CD platform — runner fleets, project and group structure, pipeline configuration, and application-level security features — partnering with the Cloud Platform team, who owns the underlying GitLab infrastructure.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software in a constrained, air-gapped GovCloud network.
• Own the product-packaging and self-service deployment path via AWS Service Catalog — authoring and maintaining portfolios and products so engineering teams can provision approved infrastructure safely and repeatably.
• Manage and secure containerized workflows, including building, scanning, and publishing OCI images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), including cross-account distribution.
• Integrate security tooling and best practices throughout the development lifecycle (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and software composition / SBOM generation).
• Operate effectively within a self-hosted zero-trust architecture and air-gapped network controls, partnering with the platform and network-security teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and our ISSO to support evidence collection and continuous monitoring for systems aligned to NIST 800-171 and/or NIST 800-53 (FedRAMP / DoD impact-level posture).
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and pipeline-level security monitoring using Infrastructure as Code.
• Support and mentor other engineers on DevSecOps best practices and tooling.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevSecOps, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, ideally including service-level work in AWS GovCloud.
• Significant hands-on experience administering GitLab, including CI/CD pipeline configuration, runner management, and security features.
• Strong knowledge of building, securing, and managing container images and workflows.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., AWS CloudFormation/CDK, Terraform, or Helm).
• Must possess or be willing and eligible to obtain a United States Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Service Catalog and/or Landing Zone Accelerator.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming, particularly with Python (Go and PowerShell a plus).
• Comfort working in a regulated environment and building auditable, evidence-generating pipelines (e.g., SBOMs, scan reports, signing/provenance); familiarity with NIST 800-171 or 800-53 a plus.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS Security – Specialty, CISSP, GitLab Certified Associate).
• Advanced degree in a relevant technical field.

Company Description

Proteus Space is a Los Angeles-based spacecraft technology company established to capitalize on a rapidly evolving space landscape and the urgent need to deliver resilient orbital capabilities to maintain and increase our national science and security interests.

We combine serious space flight experience with an open minded, first-principles approach, leveraging advanced computational design and Industry 4.0 practices to deliver custom spacecraft and mission solutions with industry leading speed, precision, and reliability.

We seek to enable every payload and mission with a fully custom, purpose-built spacecraft bus, designed and delivered using Proteus™, our patent-pending, automated computational design platform, with industry leading reliability.

Benefits

Proteus Space offers comprehensive benefits including paid medical healthcare for employees, flexible vacation policy, sick days, 401k matching option, pregnancy leave, family leave, holiday pay, military service leave, dental care, vision care and other benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Proteus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of an applicant’s age, disability, sex, race, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to an applicant with a disability or religious belief in or to enable the applicant to apply for the position.