CI/CD Pipeline Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer

As a Vision, Mission, and Driven company, VMD has been delivering information technology solutions to the Federal government in Agile Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Critical Infrastructure Protection since 2002. Our mission has now expanded, and we have merged with Xcelerate Solutions to revolutionize end-to-end enterprise security. Together we are committed to protecting our nation’s citizens, critical infrastructure, and resources.

Why Join VMD Corp?

At VMD, now a part of Xcelerate Solutions, you have the opportunity to thrive in your career and become a Game Changer. The quality and talent of our people is what drives our success. We embrace an employee-first culture and make it a priority to provide professional development opportunities that foster career growth.

We help protect American Citizens and the nation’s most critical infrastructure by working alongside our customers and delivering game changing solutions to strengthen their missions. We believe our passion and commitment to achieving our customers' goals and solve their most critical challenges defines who we are. We don’t just dream big, we act on it – through teamwork, dedication, and resilience.

About the Mission You Will Join:

You will be helping to transform and modernize the nation’s lawful systems and adjudication process. The portfolio of systems supports millions of applicants as go through Citizenship and VISA processing. This work is critical to securing the homeland and protecting the American people. The team you will be joining uses Agile and innovative practices to bring technical solutions to the USCIS mission.

Your Impact to the Mission:

The CI/CD Pipeline Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that support enterprise application development and deployment. This role automates software build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, and deployment processes to improve release efficiency, software quality, system reliability, and security compliance.

The engineer works closely with application developers, cloud engineers, system administrators, cybersecurity personnel, and program leadership to implement automated DevSecOps practices across development, test, staging, and production environments. The position supports cloud-native applications, Java microservices, containerized workloads, and enterprise integration platforms while ensuring compliance with applicable security and configuration management requirements.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Pipeline Development and Automation

• Design, develop, configure, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications and microservices, automated testing jobs, infrastructure builds, etc.
• Implement and optimize build, unit testing, integration testing, code quality analysis, artifact publishing, and deployment workflows.
• Develop reusable pipeline templates, shared libraries, deployment scripts, and automation components to standardize delivery processes.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, build errors, deployment issues, and configuration inconsistencies.

DevSecOps and Security Integration

• Integrate automated security testing, static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), container image scanning, and vulnerability assessments into CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce security gates, code quality thresholds, and approval requirements before software is promoted between environments.
• Support remediation of security vulnerabilities, software dependencies, and container image findings.
• Maintain pipeline configurations and deployment processes consistent with organizational security policies and applicable NIST SP 800-53, RMF, and federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Support audit readiness through pipeline logs, deployment records, traceability, and documented release approvals.

Cloud, Containers, and Infrastructure Automation

• Support containerized application deployments using Docker and Kubernetes, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Integrate pipelines with cloud services, infrastructure automation, container registries, and environment configuration management.
• Implement automated deployment strategies, including rolling deployments, blue-green deployments, and rollback procedures, as appropriate.
• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to resolve environment, networking, access, and deployment issues.

Configuration Management and Release Support

• Manage source control workflows, branching strategies, versioning, artifact repositories, and release tagging.
• Implement environment promotion controls across development, test, staging, and production.
• Maintain pipeline documentation, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and technical standards.
• Monitor pipeline performance and identify opportunities to reduce deployment time, improve reliability, and increase automation.

Collaboration and Continuous Improvement

• Work with cybersecurity, quality assurance, architecture, and operations teams to resolve delivery and compliance issues.
• Provide technical guidance to developers on pipeline usage, deployment standards, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve software delivery performance, pipeline reuse, operational consistency, and release quality.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience as well as 10+ years total experience in the field.
• Three or more years of experience developing, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
• Demonstrated experience with one or more CI/CD platforms, such as Jenkins, Harness, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with source control systems, particularly Git.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container registries, and automated application deployments.
• Understanding of software build processes, automated testing, version control, release management, and configuration management.
• Experience integrating code quality tools and automated security scanning into software delivery workflows.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud services and Amazon EKS.
• Experience with Harness pipeline development, reusable templates, service and environment configuration, and deployment orchestration.
• Familiarity with SonarQube, Twistlock/Prisma Cloud, or comparable code quality and security tools.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as New Relic, CloudWatch, or comparable monitoring solutions.
• Experience supporting Java, REST APIs, and microservice architectures.
• Experience supporting federal government IT programs and security compliance requirements, including NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Experience supporting production systems with stringent availability, auditability, and change-control requirements.

Performance Expectations

• Deliver reliable, repeatable, and maintainable CI/CD pipelines that support timely and controlled software releases.
• Increase automation and reduce manual intervention in software build, testing, security validation, and deployment activities.
• Maintain accurate pipeline documentation and traceable deployment records.
• Identify and resolve pipeline issues promptly to minimize development delays and production deployment risks.
• Ensure security and quality controls are consistently applied throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Collaborate effectively with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to meet program milestones and operational objectives.

Basic Qualifiers:

• Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience as well as 10+ years total experience in the field.
• Can Additional Years of Experience Substitute for Degree? No
• Required Certification(s): None
• Minimum Years of Specific Experience in Field: 10
• Minimum Clearance to Start: Public Trust
• Work Status Allowable: US Citizenship

Travel and Telecommuting:

• Travel: None
• Telecommute Options: Remote