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Senior DevSecOps Engineer

BAE Systems
BAE Systems Salary
Sterling, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/4/2025

Job Description

BAE Systems, a top ten prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense, enables the U.S. government to transform data into intelligence and provides engineering, integration and sustainment support for critical military platforms and systems. Intelligence & Security provides services and products to the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, federal law enforcement officials, and troops deployed around the world.

At BAE Systems, we promote a strong, collaborative culture and provide our employees with the tools, skills and training they need to succeed. We are all about trust, camaraderie, and a shared ambition to lead the world in defense technologies and national security services. We offer flexible work environment to support the balance in your life and keep you performing at your best. Be a part of a company that is part of the community; driven to improve our future and protect our freedom.

We are looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join our visible technical program driving the Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) cloud platform that supports collection, management and analysis of digital engineering information in an architecture that provides seamless digital thread and enables tool interoperability, including data structures suitable for AI applications. This program delivers engineering services for Linux and Windows cloud-based infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure including end-point devices, data center hosted servers, Cloud services as well as virtualized applications, and storage systems. Enterprise Computing Engineering services include modern application technology including containerized solutions with orchestrated workflows. This is a fast paced, challenging, and career rewarding experience to recruit and develop top talent and solutions on one of the most complex and high-profile programs within the government customer community.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploy and maintain infrastructure in a cloud-based environment
  • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
  • Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for DBs, Servers, and applications using DevSecOps tools to include Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Foreman, GitLab, Selenium
  • Configure IdAM, Active Directory, LDAP resources
  • Deploy and maintain complex modern cloud architectures
  • Create and update technical documentation (e.g., user guides, ‘how to’ guides, infrastructure diagrams)
  • Prepare technical presentations for government and senior leadership
  • Work effectively in a group environment
  • Create automated testing plans for applications
  • Work across infrastructure that contains both Linux and Windows
  • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical, management and customer both written and verbally
  • Utilize robust troubleshooting skills
  • Instill and apply solid engineering rigor, to include configuration management, testing
  • Develop/engineer as part of an Agile scrum team


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Required Education, Experience, & Skills

We are actively seeking candidates with a minimum of 10 years' relevant experience. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM field is required. Specific skills include the following:

  • At a minimum, meet DOD 8570 requirements (Security CE Certification)
  • Expertise working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), test automation and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects
  • Solid ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor
  • Demonstrated experience with system testing and validation
  • Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills
  • Experience with Cloud architecture and system design (prefer AWS, but will consider Azure)
  • Strong documentation skills
  • Familiar with Agile Methodologies
  • Ability to accurately decompose tasks for Jira stories
  • Developing integration interfaces using Python, PowerShell, and Groovy
  • Experience and comfortability with Basic DevOps Tooling (Foreman, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)
  • Familiarity with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)
  • Expertise with automated testing tools (Selenium) and experience developing automated test plans for both security and functional requirements
  • Familiarity with customer system security requirements and processes
  • Preparation and maintenance of system components
  • Experience with API Gateways, catalogs
  • Experience with DevOps testing
  • Understanding of Active Directory


Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  • Experience with Cloud solution optimization
  • Experience configuring and instrumenting Virtualization tools (Grafana, Splunk)
  • Experience configuring and instrumenting tools providing end to end visibility, monitoring, and analytics (AppDynamics, DynaTrace)
  • Experience with ServiceNow
  • Other Cloud experience (Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM)
  • Integration of virtualized applications and application streaming or layering techniques
  • Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud services, infrastructure and security domains
  • SharePoint admin experience
  • IBM Enterprise Lifcycle Management experience
  • TeamWork Cloud/Cameo experience
  • Tableau experience


Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $146670 - $249330

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.


About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.

Intelligence & Security (I&S), based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do—from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.

Salary : $146,670 - $249,330

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