Senior DevSecOps Engineer

About the Role
Bluestaq is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build, secure, and operate the delivery pipelines and infrastructure that move software from development to production in mission-critical environments. In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will support multiple services and environments within a program or major product area, acting as a go-to resource for pipeline and deployment questions for your teams.


You will own medium-sized initiatives end to end, such as containerizing an application, adding security scanning to a pipeline, or migrating a service to GitOps, and will proactively harden the systems in your area. You will design and maintain moderately complex pipelines, manage Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and participate in incident response and root-cause analysis when pipelines, deployments, or clusters break.


Responsibilities

Pipelines & Automation

• Design and maintain moderately complex CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage builds, approvals, automated tests, and security scans.
• Own medium-sized initiatives end to end, such as containerizing an application, adding security scanning, or migrating a service to GitOps.
• Integrate CI/CD, security scanners, logging, metrics, GitOps, and artifact management tooling; automate away manual deployment steps.

Kubernetes & Infrastructure

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, including resource requests and limits, ingress, secrets, certificates, and networking.
• Define infrastructure with Terraform (or similar IaC) and Ansible across multiple services and environments (e.g., dev/test/prod).

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage builds, approvals, automated testing, and security scanning.
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters, including resource management, ingress, secrets, certificates, and networking.
• Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC), including state management, drift, and modularization.
• Experience with configuration-as-code using Ansible.
• Experience integrating tooling across the delivery workflow: security scanners, logging, metrics, GitOps, and artifact management.
• Experience supporting multiple services and environments (e.g., dev/test/prod).
• Experience participating in incident response and root-cause analysis for pipeline, deployment, or infrastructure issues.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to support developers and act as a resource for delivery questions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating in regulated, mission-critical, or high-security environments.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling.
• Familiarity with container security practices such as image scanning, SBOMs, and policy engines.
• Experience improving monitoring, alerting, and observability for services or platforms.
• Experience hardening infrastructure, including IAM, secrets management, and secure baselines.
• Experience containerizing applications and modernizing delivery workflows.

Required Education & Experience

• High School Diploma/GED and 6+ years of relevant experience, OR
• Associate degree in a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, OR
• Master's degree in a related field and 0+ years of relevant experience

Salary Range (CO)

$115,000-$150,000 USD

Clearance Requirement: This position may require the ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance. To be eligible for a security clearance, U.S. citizenship is required, and an employee must agree to participate in a background screen and credit check. Eligibility for a TS/SCI Clearance will be assessed as part of the onboarding process or based on programmatic needs.

About Bluestaq At Bluestaq, we build secure data platforms that matter for space missions, national defense, healthcare systems, and commercial innovation. Founded in 2018, we've become a leader in enterprise software and secure data management by staying focused on what counts: modern architecture, operational excellence, and mission impact.

We're engineers, problem-solvers, and builders who take the mission seriously, but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable, question the status quo, and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether we're supporting space, defense systems, or healthcare advancements, we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions, security by design, and relentless simplicity.

Relocation: This position does not offer relocation. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Date the Position Closes: Applications will be accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date, or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.

Bluestaq is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Bluestaq will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities and employees whose work requirements interfere with a religious belief unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to Bluestaq or a direct threat. Employees needing such accommodation are instructed to contact Human Resources immediately at View email address on click.appcast.io.