Summary
What you’ll impact
Our organization is seeking a senior DevOps Build Engineer in San Diego to own the build and release engineering function for defense and government contracts. The role focuses on designing CI/CD pipelines, automating builds, and ensuring security and compliance across unclassified and controlled environments.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins) that compile, test, package, and publish software across multiple programs.
- Own build automation and release engineering end to end — reproducible builds, semantic versioning, dependency management, and promotion across environments.
- Manage artifact repositories and container registries (Artifactory, Nexus, ECR/ACR), including retention, access control, and provenance.
- Develop and maintain build tooling and scripts (Bash, Python, Make, Bazel, or Gradle) to standardize and accelerate builds across teams.
- Optimize build performance through caching, parallelization, and incremental build strategies to reduce cycle time and cost.
- Integrate automated security and quality gates into pipelines (SAST, SCA, dependency scanning, SBOM generation) and surface actionable results to developers.
- Build and maintain container images and base image pipelines, keeping them patched, hardened, and compliant.
- Automate infrastructure and build-environment provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Partner with development, security, and compliance teams to deliver self-service tooling and generate audit and compliance evidence from the pipeline.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and standards for build and release processes across the organization.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent hands‑on experience.
- 8+ years of experience in build/release engineering, DevOps, or software infrastructure roles.
- Hands‑on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and Bash.
- Experience with artifact and dependency management (Artifactory, Nexus, or equivalent) and container registries.
- Proficiency with Git‑based version control and branching/release workflows.
- Working knowledge of containerization (Docker)
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS or Azure).
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
- DevSecOps experience — integrating SAST/DAST/SCA scanning, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, and artifact signing (Cosign/Sigstore) into build pipelines.
- Hands‑on Kubernetes experience (EKS, AKS, or self‑managed), including Helm‑based packaging and container orchestration.
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (ArgoCD or Flux).
- Hands on experience with the Conan C/C++ package manager, YOCTO, including custom recipes and remote artifact caching.
- Experience operating in AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or IL4/IL5 environments.
- Familiarity with DoD and federal compliance frameworks (NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP, DFARS).
- Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.