DevSecOps Engineer- Secret Clearance Required

Job Location: Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (Onsite)

Security Clearance: Active Secret Clearance required (Interim OK)

Citizenship: US Citizenship required

Make an Impact Where It Matters Most 

At Sherpa 6, you won’t just build pipelines—you’ll help build the systems that keep our nation safe. We’re looking for a DevSecOps Engineer who thrives in hands-on environments, values close collaboration, and wants to work directly with a mission-focused customer at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Working directly at Aberdeen Proving Ground provides unique access to secure systems, rapid decision cycles, and close collaboration with customer stakeholders  

If you enjoy solving complex DevSecOps challenges, influencing architecture decisions, and seeing your work immediately shape real-world outcomes, this is an exceptional opportunity. 

Responsibilities:

• Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.  
• You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches 
• Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development. 
• Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.  
• Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.  
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.  
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.  
• Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.  
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.  
• Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.  
• Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.  
• Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience. 
• Experience working within AWS environments.  
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, build engineering, or a similar discipline.  
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.  
• Strong knowledge of Git, including branching strategies and tagging workflows.  
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.  
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).  
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.  

Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:

• Experience integrating automated security scans and documentation into CI/CD pipelines or IT workflows.  
• Experience with SageMaker. 
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems.  
• Experience working within DoD or government environments.  
• Familiarity with DISA STIGs and automated compliance scanning.  
• MLOps experience 

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harm's way.

Background/Drug Screening

Successful completion of a pre-employment background & drug screening will be required as a condition of hire.

ADA

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

EEO/AA

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

Salary Range

The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.