Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Who we are:

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments.  We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.

About this role:

We are seeking a visionary, highly experienced Principal DevSecOps Engineer and Technical Leader to architect, secure, and scale our mission-critical software delivery platforms. In this senior leadership role, you will define the overarching DevSecOps strategy, driving the convergence of robust software development, automated operations, and stringent military-grade security compliance.

You will serve as a primary technical authority across the organization, mentoring engineering teams, establishing product-wide security paradigms, and ensuring our tactical edge solutions are resilient, secure, and rapidly deployable across diverse airborne, maritime, and ground environments.

This is a hands on technical leadership position that will play a key role in defining, communicating, and implementing Fuse DevSecOps practices.

What you’ll do:

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Define the vision for DevSecOps, cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, govcloud), automated delivery pipelines, and Fuse’s platform operating systems and utlities.
• Security Architecture & Hardening: Lead the architectural design for automated container hardening, policy-driven operating system security (e.g., SELinux), SBOM generation and management, and continuous monitoring.
• Enterprise CI/CD & Orchestration: Architect, scale, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks utilizing GitLab CI, Ansible, Podman/Docker, Kubernetes, and RPM package management systems.
• Governance & Process Enforcement: Establish, maintain, and enforce rigorous Software Development Processes and secure coding governance frameworks across all concurrent engineering projects.
• Security Integration: Direct the integration and automation of advanced Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and code metrics tooling.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Project Management, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, and executive leadership to align infrastructure and product capabilities with sprint schedules and mission-critical release targets.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee the architecture and resilience of on-premises infrastructure (Jira, GitLab, vCenter/vSphere/ESXi environments, GNS3, etc) and the development networks.
• Innovation & AI Adaptation: Evaluate and introduce emerging pipeline methodologies, including the strategic integration of AI tools within CI/CD pipelines to optimize efficiency and software quality.
• Mentorship: Act as a technical mentor all engineering levels, fostering a culture of high performance, security mindfulness, and continuous learning.