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Credence

Mid Level DevSecOps Engineer

Hybrid

Tysons corner, United states

Mid level

Full Time

25-02-2026

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Skills

Leadership Bash Splunk DevOps Docker Kubernetes Configuration Management Jenkins Ansible Architecture git Organization AWS AWS Cloud Terraform Infrastructure as Code

Job Specifications

At Credence, we support our clients' mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.

We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.

Credence has an immediate need for a DevSecOps Engineer to support the Defense Logistics Agency, API Gateway Program. The Senior DevSecOps Engineer will be one of the technical experts for Ansible ecosystem & DevOps practices within the organization, providing solutions and technical implementation aligned with the automation program objectives. This team member will develop Ansible artifacts, troubleshoot issues and work on implementing configuration management roadmap of the organization.

Responsibilities

Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules
Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks
Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support
Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds
Generate auto start/stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible
Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate)
Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment
Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage
Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions
AWS GovCloud Architecture & Management: Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and compliant AWS GovCloud environments for DoD applications
Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to DoD cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP, Zero Trust). Implement STIGs, security baselines, and automated security scanning (SAST/DAST)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
Containerization & Orchestration: Deploy and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters in AWS GovCloud, leveraging services like Amazon EKS, ECS

Requirements

Ability to obtain a security clearance is required
At least four (4) years of experience using Ansible for DevOps Development with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures
Strong experience with Ansible Playbook development and Ansible CLI deployment
Advanced-level scripting in Bash
Log shipping application logs to Splunk and AWS Cloud watch
Expert level RHEL 8, using cloud-init for provisioning
At least 3 years of experience administrating Kubernetes and creating deployments yaml (any flavor, but prefer EKS)
Excellent working knowledge of Jenkins, Git
Expertise implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline in Jenkins using Declarative Pipeline language
Knowledge required to build and manage Dockerfile to be deployed on Kubernetes deployments
Experienced with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment
Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment

About the Company

Credence provides innovative technology, health, engineering, and management solutions to support mission-critical programs for Federal government customers. Our ability to perform exceptionally to implement new solutions, efficiencies, and savings across 220 U.S. Government programs is due to our obsession with exceeding customer expectations and our emphasis on employee wellbeing—best exemplified by our corporate philosophy: “One Measure of Success. Yours.” WHY WORK WITH CREDENCE? We are consistently rated as a Top Workpla... Know more