Junior DevSecOps Engineer

Job Title: Junior DevSecOps Engineer

Company: BLN24

About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us

BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.

Position Overview:

BLN24 is seeking a Junior DevSecOps Engineer to support a cloud-native, web-

based modernization of a mission-critical forecasting system. The selected

candidate will help build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, AWS

infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployments for modern micro-frontend and

microservices-based applications.

Tech Stack: React micro-frontends, Python/Node.js microservices, AWS EKS,

GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities:

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for micro-frontends and microservices.
• Implement automated testing, security scanning, including SAST/DAST, and deployment workflows.
• Manage container builds and AWS ECR container registries.
• Configure GitOps workflows.
• Support blue-green and canary deployment strategies.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

• Provision cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB.
• Support auto-scaling, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and multi-region deployments.

Kubernetes Operations

• Deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads, including Deployments, StatefulSets, and HPA.
• Create and maintain Helm charts for application packaging.
• Troubleshoot pod failures, resource constraints, and deployment issues.
• Support service mesh configuration, including Istio or Linkerd, as needed.

Security & Compliance

• Support FISMA High and FedRAMP Moderate compliance requirements.
• Manage IAM policies, Secrets Manager, and KMS encryption.
• Support human-level validations for Gen-AI led test-driven design processes.

Required Qualifications:

• 1–2 years of DevOps experience.
• 1+ year of AWS experience, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, or EKS.
• 1+ year of GitLab CI/CD experience, or comparable experience with GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or Node.js.
• Experience with Terraform or AWS CDK; Terraform preferred.
• Linux administration.
• Git version control experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications
• Experience with real-time web applications, WebSocket, or WebGL

What BLN24 brings to the Game:

BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.

• You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.
• Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.

BLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.