About the role
What will you do at SAIC?
SAIC is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Senior SecDevOps & Systems
Engineer with strong full-stack development capabilities to join our IT team.
This role unifies three critical functions: secure DevOps automation, end-to-end
systems engineering, and hands-on application development. The ideal candidate
will lead the design, integration, and secure delivery of complex systems —
architecting the infrastructure, building the pipelines that deploy to it,
developing applications that run on it, and embedding security at every layer.
This role requires deep expertise spanning software development, IT operations,
systems engineering, and security engineering, with the ability to bridge gaps
between systems, teams, and processes while serving as a hands-on technical
leader.
This position is hybrid-remote and requires 2 days on-site per week in Sterling,
VA.
Systems Engineering & Integration
Responsibilities
- * Lead the design and implementation of integrated, end-to-end systems
- solutions spanning infrastructure, platform, and application layers to
- support enterprise objectives.
- * Perform systems requirements analysis, decomposition, and traceability from
- enterprise objectives to implemented capabilities.
- * Define and manage interfaces between subsystems, vendor products, and
- external systems, including interface control documentation.
- * Plan and execute integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) activities
- to prove systems meet functional, performance, and security requirements.
- * Conduct systems analysis, trade studies, and capacity planning to identify
- opportunities for optimization; document and defend technical decisions in
- formal reviews.
- * Manage and monitor integrated systems to ensure high availability,
- performance, and security; lead root cause analysis and implement strategic
- corrective actions.
- SecDevOps & Automation
Responsibilities
- * Architect, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated
- security gates, including static and dynamic application security testing
- (SAST/DAST), software composition analysis (SCA), container scanning, and
- secrets management.
- * Develop and maintain robust automation workflows for software build, test,
- security validation, and deployment processes.
- * Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) with embedded security policy
- enforcement (policy-as-code) for cloud and hybrid environments.
- * Harden operating systems, containers, and platforms to applicable security
- baselines (e.g., DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks) and automate compliance
- verification.
- * Support security authorization activities, including RMF/ATO documentation,
- vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and audit evidence
- generation.
- * Ensure systems integration and delivery align with industry best practices
- and applicable compliance and security standards.
- * Provide expert guidance on SecDevOps tools and practices, facilitating
- knowledge sharing and maturing the organization's SecDevOps culture.
- Full Stack Development
Responsibilities
- * Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications, including responsive
- front-end interfaces, back-end services and APIs, and supporting data layers.
- * Build and integrate RESTful and/or event-driven APIs between internal
- systems, vendor products, and external services.
- * Apply secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10 mitigation) and participate
- in code reviews with a security-first mindset.
- * Develop internal tooling, dashboards, and automation utilities that enhance
- operational visibility and team efficiency.
- * Collaborate with development, operations, security, and other IT teams to
- ensure seamless, high-quality, secure software delivery.
- Leadership
Responsibilities
- * Lead projects from concept through deployment and sustainment, participating
- in formal technical and design reviews.
- * Mentor junior engineers and developers across DevOps, systems, and software
- disciplines.
- * Stay current with emerging technologies in systems integration, SecDevOps,
- and application development, recommending adoption where beneficial.
- SAIC® [http://www.saic.com/] is a premier mission integrator focused on
- advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world.
- Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and
- civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise
- IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging
- technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that
- modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
- We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and
- inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered
- in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For
- more information, visit saic.com [http://www.saic.com/]. For ongoing news,
- please visit our newsroom [http://www.saic.com/who-we-are/newsroom/].
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