Principal DevSecOps Engineer

About this role

About the Role

Bluestaq is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead the evolution of our delivery platforms across mission-critical environments. This individual contributor role is focused on platform ownership, architecture, and cross-team enablement, shaping how software moves from development to production across programs, environments, and customers. You will define and mature the standards, automation, and platform capabilities that enable teams to ship secure, reliable software at speed while meeting compliance and operational requirements.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy and influence, you will partner closely with engineering leadership, cybersecurity, systems, and program teams to align platform direction with mission needs. You will drive multi-quarter initiatives that improve scalability, resilience, and developer experience, while mentoring senior engineers and helping raise the bar for DevSecOps practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

Platform Ownership & Architecture

• Serve as the technical owner for DevSecOps platforms across a major product ecosystem, mission area, or environment set.

• Define and evolve reference architectures for CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, monitoring, and incident response.

• Drive platform design decisions balancing speed, cost, reliability, and security in mission and production environments.