DEFENSE UNICORNS

Senior DevSecOps Engineer 

Embedded Engineering | Secure Cloud-Native Platforms | AI Delivery

Role Description

Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior DevSecOps Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem.

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, and software delivery. The engineer will help establish secure, automated, and repeatable pipelines that allow software, AI models, and agentic capabilities to move rapidly from development into operational environments while identifying cybersecurity and compliance risks early—before formal security testing.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on DevSecOps engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, NIST 800-53, and the RMF/ATO process. They should be comfortable working directly with government personnel and multiple commercial technology partners, troubleshooting across technical boundaries, and translating security requirements into practical engineering controls rather than treating compliance as a downstream gate.

This is an embedded engineering role—not a traditional security or compliance staff-augmentation