Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Mechanicsburg, PA (Hybrid)

Position Type: Contract

Job Description:

This req is available to candidates nationwide, but candidate must be ready to relocate for this hybrid position (60% remote vs. 40% onsite). Candidate must go onsite on their first day to pick up commonwealth-issued equipment, badging, etc.. Role contingent on compliant PATCH and passing PSDC/CJIS background checks.

PSDC (Public Safety Delivery Center) requires the services of a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to act as consultant with the PSDC Solutions Management group.

Role summary:

• Hands-on security automation for AWS delivery. Build secure-by-default CDK constructs and CloudFormation templates, wire them into CI/CD, and enforce compliance checks that map to CJIS and NIST. Azure support is a future consideration, not a core day-one duty.
• Scope boundaries
• Does not own enterprise AWS Organizations or SCP operations.
• Designs and builds reference guardrails and enforcement patterns that can be deployed by enterprise teams.
• Focuses on preventive controls and compliance automation, not incident response.
• Pipeline security templates in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps with SAST, SCA, IaC, container, and secret scanning gates.
• Compliance as code in reference accounts: AWS Config rules and Security Hub standards aligned to CJIS and NIST 800-53, with exceptions workflow documented.
• IaC reference modules using AWS CDK and CloudFormation for IAM least privilege, KMS, Secrets Manager, logging, and network baselines; Terraform equivalents provided where teams require them.
• Evidence exports tying checks to control IDs and producing auditor-ready artifacts.
• Harden CDK/CFT modules and pipeline templates as compliance needs evolve.
• Coach pilot teams to adopt templates.
• Raise gaps to enterprise teams for org-level enforcement.
• Day-to-day responsibilities
• Author and maintain AWS CDK constructs and CloudFormation templates; provide Terraform versions as secondary.
• Implement AWS Config conformance, Security Hub standards, and GuardDuty routing in reference accounts.
• Wire scanning in CI/CD for app code, containers, and IaC.
• Create reusable GitHub/Azure DevOps templates with enforcement gates and exception handling.
• Generate posture and evidence reports mapped to CJIS and NIST controls.

Required skills:

• 5 years AWS security automation and DevOps Required 5 Years
• Strong with AWS CDK and CloudFormation; working proficiency in Terraform Required
• CI/CD authoring in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Required
• Proficient in Python and Bash, with PowerShell for Windows automation Required
• Able to read Java and C# to integrate and tune SAST/SCA Required
• Practical knowledge of CJIS and NIST 800-53 control families and how to automate checks and evidence Required
• EKS/ECS/Lambda hardening patterns Nice to have
• OPA/Conftest, Checkov, Trivy, Inspector, CodeQL or equivalent Nice to have
• Basic Azure security automation for future phases Nice to have

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