DevSecOps and Release Engineer

Job Title:                                 DevSecOps and Release Engineer
Reference:                             26-015
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        08-11-2026
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                         Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a DevSecOps and Release Engineer to become part of our team in Huntsville, AL.  This individual will design, automate, and support secure software delivery for a multi-service enterprise platform.  The engineer will improve CI/CD, software supply-chain assurance, release coordination, deployment validation, and recovery readiness across development and customer environments.

                        Responsbibilities include:

– Design and maintain reusable CI/CD pipelines, build automation, test stages, artifact promotoin, and release workflows.
– Integrate code analysis, dependency analysis, container scanning, dynamic testing, software bills of materials, signing, and provenance into delivery pipelines.
–  Manage container images, packages, deployment artifacts, versioning, and release records across private registries and access-controlled environments.
– Automate Kubernetes and OpenShift deployment validation using GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, infrastructure as code, and policy checks.
– Coordinate releases across multiple software teams and ensure dependencies, evidence, approvals, and customer inputs are ready.
– Develop integration, negative, upgrade, rollback, and recovery tests with platform and application engineers.
– Investigate pipeline, build, artifact, deployment, and environment failures and implement durable corrections.
– Maintain release procedures, deployment instructions, operational handoff material, and recovery documentation.
– Measure deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and recurring delivery effort.
– Promote secure automation, reproducible builds, peer review, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Basic Qualifications:

– Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, information technology or a related discipline, or equivalent experience and combined education, with 7 years of experience, or relevant professional experience; or 5 years with a related Master’s degree.
– Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for multi-service software products.
– Experience with Git, Linux, containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift, scripting, and infrastructure as code.
– Experience integrating automated software quality and security checks into build and release workflows.
– Experience with artifact repositories, container registries, versioning, release coordination, and deployment automation.
– Experience troubleshooting, pipeline, artifact, and deployment issues.
– Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate release risk to technical and nontechnical personnel.
– Works well in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.
– Must be willing to work onsite in a closed/classified area.
– Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance. 

Preferred Qualifications:

– Experience with GitLab CI, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Ansible, or comperable technologies.
– Experience with SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, software bills of materials, artifact signing, and vulnerability disposition.
– Experience with private registries and disconnected software deliver.
– Experience with policy as code, Kubernetes configuration validation, and automated compliance evidence.
– Experience with progressive delivery release trians, rollback automation, disaster recovery, or operational readiness reviews.
– Experience supporting government customers and formal software releases.
– Strong oral and written communication skills.
– Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.