[Hiring] Staff DevSecOps Engineer @Yurts

Role Description

We’re looking for a Staff DevSecOps Engineer who will set technical direction across Platform DevOps and customer delivery. You will shape the engineering systems and practices that take Legion from development to dependable operation, enabling teams to deliver improvements faster and customers to realize mission value sooner.

This position requires a US DoW or Intelligence TS/SCI clearance.

As a Staff DevSecOps Engineer on the Mission Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership across:

• Internal build and release systems
• Platform operations
• Customer deployments

You will work directly with customer mission owners, IT teams, and security stakeholders to:

• Understand their needs
• Achieve technical alignment
• Deliver Legion into their operating environments

Your scope includes:

• Internal CI/CD
• Observability and alerting
• Vulnerability posture
• Deployment automation
• Production reliability

You will translate mission needs and operating constraints into technical decisions, resolve tradeoffs across teams, and turn recurring delivery barriers into durable improvements to Legion.

You will remain hands-on in delivering the platform to customers while guiding engineers and establishing practices that make the whole team more effective.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the technical roadmap for Platform DevOps and customer deployment engineering.
• Identify constraints that limit delivery of mission value and lead improvements with clear outcomes.
• Own technical alignment with customer stakeholders throughout delivery.
• Define architecture and standards for repeatable deployment and lifecycle automation.
• Lead architecture for integration with customer identity and access systems.
• Own the technical direction and effectiveness of internal CI/CD and release infrastructure.
• Own the technical strategy for vulnerability posture across platform infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership during complex incidents and investigations.
• Lead the technical approach to deployment authorization and security evidence.

Qualifications

• An active US DoW or Intelligence TS/SCI clearance.
• A BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification.
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, or software engineering.
• Proven experience engaging directly with customer technical and mission stakeholders.
• 4+ years of experience deploying software in US Government classified networks.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
• Deep production experience with Kubernetes, Linux, and Helm.
• Experience designing and evolving GitOps delivery systems.
• Experience owning internal CI/CD infrastructure.
• Experience designing secure, reproducible container builds using Docker.
• Experience defining and improving software supply-chain security.
• Strong understanding of secure service networking and access controls.
• Strong working knowledge of operating stateful services.
• Proficiency building maintainable automation in Python or Bash.
• Strong working knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, and incident diagnosis.
• Strong working knowledge of authentication and identity federation.
• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing packaging and delivery for restricted or disconnected environments.
• Experience operating GPU workloads and model-serving infrastructure.
• Experience applying these skills in a startup environment.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Support for professional growth and development.

Compensation Information

$182,750 - $215,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement

Legion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.