# Mid-Level DevSecOps SME / Cloud Security Engineer (ISSE)

**Company**: Dark Wolf
**Location**: Herndon, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,000.00 - $140,000.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Dark Wolf is looking for a Mid-Level DevSecOps SME / Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to join a collaborative, dynamic team in a fast-paced, innovative mission environment.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of information security principles, as well as experience in software development, security engineering, risk management, and compliance.

Responsibilities include:

- Conducting technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architectures (AWS or GCP), and information security aspects and accreditation.

- Performing vulnerability assessments using automated software, pipeline, and container scanning tools including SonarQube, Snyk, NeuVector, and OWASP ZAP.

- Reviewing requests for software installation and conduct technical risk assessments on software implementation, specifically within Kubernetes clustered environments.

- Coordinating and tracking security action requests and report status to senior managers, leveraging GitOps workflows and automation tooling like ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD.

- Analyzing, modifying when necessary, and maintaining the client’s certification to field security approvals (continuous ATO) by implementing DISA STIGs through automated Ansible Playbooks and hardened Dockerfiles.

- Conducting and analyzing auditing requirements continuously, implementing and monitoring logging, metrics, and tracing stacks via Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, and Alloy.

- Enforcing zero-trust network architectures and traffic management within containerized environments using Istio or similar service meshes.

Required Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in IT security, information assurance, or DevSecOps engineering

- Background in secure software development with a proficiency in a scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Golang) with an emphasis on automation and a foundational knowledge of how to interact with REST APIs

- Experience and enjoyment in working directly with customers to improve cyber security posture

- Experience authoring and maintaining systems security documentation and hardening configurations for modern cloud environments

- Experience in generating appropriate security documentation to receive proper authorization from customer security personnel, and correcting security shortfalls as they are identified through customer-sponsored reviews

- Strong understanding of Kubernetes Administration and a deep foundational knowledge of containerization (Docker and similar technologies)

- Understanding of the cyber environment and threats of our cyber adversaries, specifically regarding cloud and supply-chain vulnerabilities

- Possesses strong technical skills and analytic ability

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related technical field

- IAT Lvl 2 certification (e.g., Security+)

- US Citizenship and active TS/SCI clearance

Desired Qualifications:

- Previous experience as an ISSE / ISSM in a DoD or federal environment

- Relevant technical certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), or cloud-specific professional DevOps/Security certifications

The estimated salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $140,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical interview.

## Skills

### Required
- IT security
- information assurance
- DevSecOps engineering
- secure software development
- scripting or programming languages (Python, Golang)
- REST APIs
- Kubernetes Administration
- containerization (Docker)
- cyber security posture
- systems security documentation
- hardening configurations
- cloud environments
- security documentation
- authorization
- customer security personnel
- cyber environment
- threats of cyber adversaries
- cloud and supply-chain vulnerabilities
- technical skills
- analytic ability
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
- Cyber Security
- IAT Lvl 2 certification (Security+)
- US Citizenship
- active TS/SCI clearance

### Nice to have
- Previous experience as an ISSE / ISSM in a DoD or federal environment
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- cloud-specific professional DevOps/Security certifications

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