Principal DevSecOps Engineer

**Who we are:** Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems. **About this role:** We are seeking a visionary, highly experienced Principal DevSecOps Engineer and Technical Leader to architect, secure, and scale our mission-critical software delivery platforms. In this senior leadership role, you will define the overarching DevSecOps strategy, driving the convergence of robust software development, automated operations, and stringent military-grade security compliance. You will serve as a primary technical authority across the organization, mentoring engineering teams, establishing product-wide security paradigms, and ensuring our tactical edge solutions are resilient, secure, and rapidly deployable across diverse airborne, maritime, and ground environments. This is a hands on technical leadership position that will play a key role in defining, communicating, and implementing Fuse DevSecOps practices. **What you’ll do:** · **Technical Leadership & Strategy:** Define the vision for DevSecOps, cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, govcloud), automated delivery pipelines, and Fuse’s platform operating systems and utlities. · **Security Architecture & Hardening:** Lead the architectural design for automated container hardening, policy-driven operating system security (e.g., SELinux), SBOM generation and management, and continuous monitoring. · **Enterprise CI/CD & Orchestration:** Architect, scale, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks utilizing GitLab CI, Ansible, Podman/Docker, Kubernetes, and RPM package management systems. · **Governance & Process Enforcement:** Establish, maintain, and enforce rigorous Software Development Processes and secure coding governance frameworks across all concurrent engineering projects. · **Security Integration:** Direct the integration and automation of advanced Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and code metrics tooling. · **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner closely with Project Management, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, and executive leadership to align infrastructure and product capabilities with sprint schedules and mission-critical release targets. · **Infrastructure Management:** Oversee the architecture and resilience of on-premises infrastructure (Jira, GitLab, vCenter/vSphere/ESXi environments, GNS3, etc) and the development networks. · **Innovation & AI Adaptation:** Evaluate and introduce emerging pipeline methodologies, including the strategic integration of AI tools within CI/CD pipelines to optimize efficiency and software quality. · **Mentorship:** Act as a technical mentor all engineering levels, fostering a culture of high performance, security mindfulness, and continuous learning. **We are looking for:** · **Education:** B.S. or higher in an engineering field (Computer, Software, Math, Physics, Electrical, or related technical discipline). · **Experience:** 12+ years of progressive experience in DevSecOps or software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a dedicated technical leadership or architectural role focused on DevSecOps. · **Software Development Expertise:** Strong proficiency in a strongly typed language (preferably C++) for developing, reviewing, and auditing complex software systems, complemented by extensive scripting capabilities in Python and Bash. · **Containerization & Orchestration at Scale:** Proven track record of architecting and managing production-grade container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) in disconnected/degraded/decentralized environments.…