Pr025-057 - Devsecops Engineer

QTEC Aerospace•Huntsville, AL

11d•Onsite

About The Position

QTEC Aerospace is seeking a DEVSECOPS ENGINEER to join our team of professionals in Huntsville, AL. The qualified applicant will become part of a team of professionals representing both industry and government. The successful candidate will be detail oriented, have a proven track record and a positive work ethic. Job Summary QTEC Aerospace is looking for highly capable and motivated individuals. The successful candidates will function as an integral member of a multi-contractor team providing program, engineering, and technical support to Missile Defense programs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Programming, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field from an accredited university, along with at least 2 years of experience; or a Master's degree in a related field; or 6 years of relevant work experience may be considered as an alternative to a degree
DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, CySA+, CND, etc.)
Must have taken Information Technology or software development courses, and/or formal education/certification courses within the Information Technology, DevSecOps, or Software Development disciplines
Must possess strong communication abilities, along with excellent writing and presentation skills
Must be able to work independently/solo on large projects at times, and at other times be in a collaborative team environment with other DevSecOps engineers and other program development and deployment teams.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and prepare and brief presentations to the customer as needed.
Self-motivated and customer-oriented
Candidates must currently have and be able to maintain a minimum DoD SECRET level security clearance.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Support
Assist in writing and updating Ansible playbooks, Packer images, and Python scripts for Windows and Linux hosts
Ensure all code is committed to Git and adheres to basic security guidelines
Automation Pipeline Assistance
Help build CI/CD jobs that provision, harden, and configure systems
Add basic automated tests, vulnerability scans, and compliance checks under the guidance of senior engineers
STIG Baseline Automation
Contribute reusable Ansible roles and simple Python utilities that apply DoD STIGs
Track compliance drift and raise tickets for remediation
Configuration Management
Maintain inventory files, variable definitions, and secret references (Vault/Azure Key Vault)
Verify that deployments remain idempotent
Tool Evaluation & Documentation
Participate in evaluating new tools, containers, or services
Draft user guides and knowledge transfer notes for the team
Python-Centric Development
Write clean, well-commented Python scripts for API integration, data parsing, and automation glue logic
Participate in code reviews to improve software quality
Automation: Ansible – develop/playbooks, basic role creation, inventory management
Python – scripting for automation, API calls, data processing
Bash/PowerShell – simple scripts
Containers - Build and run Docker/Podman containers; basic familiarity with Kubernetes or OpenShift concepts
CI/CD - Create and maintain simple pipelines in GitLab CI/CD (or Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) that include linting, unit tests, and security scans
Version Control - Git – commit, push, branch, pull-request workflows; adhere to team branching strategy
IaC Tools - Packer – create OS images; introductory Terraform concepts for resource provisioning
Monitoring - Add basic Prometheus/Grafana or ELK metrics/alerts to automation jobs
Secret Management - Store and retrieve secrets using HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager via scripts
Compliance - Run OpenSCAP or InSpec scans; report results and assist with remediation
Problem Solving - Diagnose simple pipeline or deployment failures; participate in on-call rotation under supervision
Collaboration - Document work in Confluence/Wiki; provide knowledge transfer to peers