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title: 'DevSecOps Engineer at 9th Way Insignia'
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# DevSecOps Engineer at 9th Way Insignia

- **Company:** 9th Way Insignia
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $98k–$135k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/9thwayinsignia/jobs/5393474008

## Job description

9th Way Insignia is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business bringing transformative technology to our government customers so they can achieve their missions.  Our specialties include cybersecurity, cloud modernization, software development, data analytics, enterprise architecture, enterprise IT, analytics, process automation, and artificial intelligence.  Learn more about 9th Way Insignia at [https://9thwayinsignia.com/.](https://9thwayinsignia.com/)

Application password: Niner

## Team (Project) Introduction

We are recruiting for a range of cybersecurity opportunities supporting federal customers, focused on strengthening enterprise security architecture, systems engineering, and the secure implementation of technologies across the environment.

The work involves applying established cybersecurity standards, guidelines, and frameworks to help translate organizational and business requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions. Team members may contribute to security architecture and engineering efforts, implementation guidance, technical analysis, and the development of repeatable approaches that support the consistent deployment and operation of secure technologies across complex enterprise environments.

Systems security engineering is an important component of this work, with an emphasis on incorporating security and stakeholder protection requirements throughout the system development life cycle, from concept and design through development, production, sustainment, and decommissioning. The team will apply established systems engineering and cybersecurity principles to help protect systems, applications, data, and supporting technologies.

Ultimately, this work supports the broader mission to strengthen its cybersecurity posture, reduce organizational risk, and protect critical systems and information from evolving cyber threats, including external adversaries and insider threats.

9th Way Insignia is looking for an Engineer, 3, DevSecOps Engineer to join this team.

Professional Level Information: An Engineer, 3 typically plans and directs research or development work on complex projects, along with engaging various parties in design and development. Costs and recommendations of new components may also involve part of the job scope. Performs multiple engineering-related tasks in various assignments within the project and firm. An Engineer, 3 oversees the design, development, implementation, and analysis of technical products and systems.  An Engineer, 3 has broad knowledge of engineering procedures and assists in the resolution of complex problems.  An Engineer, 3 has strong technical skills and background, a knack for learning new technologies, and a blend of good problem-solving and innovation needed to resolve a wide variety of technical production challenges.

Functional Job (LCAT) Information: The DevSecOps Engineer will design, implement, automate, secure, and maintain development and deployment processes supporting the VA program. The engineer will integrate cybersecurity throughout the software development lifecycle and establish automated, repeatable, and secure processes for building, testing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining applications and infrastructure within enterprise and cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, maintain, and optimize DevSecOps processes and CI/CD pipelines supporting secure software development, testing, integration, deployment, and operations.
- Integrate security controls and security gates directly into development and deployment pipelines to ensure applications and infrastructure are securely configured, tested, and deployed.
- Automate security testing and compliance activities throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Develop and maintain automated deployment scripts, workflows, and configuration-management solutions that support consistent and repeatable deployment of hardened security configurations.
- Support development and implementation of cloud-native DevSecOps solutions, including secure build, test, deployment, and operational processes within cloud environments.
- Support secure implementation and management of containerized applications and workloads within enterprise and cloud-native environments.
- Integrate cybersecurity tools and technologies into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows to identify security issues as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
- Implement automated mechanisms for identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities, configuration weaknesses, compliance issues, and other software security risks.
- Perform and support security assessments and vulnerability-management activities for applications, platforms, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Support cybersecurity incident-response activities involving applications, development pipelines, cloud infrastructure, software components, and related DevSecOps technologies.
- Apply secure software-development practices throughout the development lifecycle and promote security-by-design and security-by-default principles.
- Manage and maintain source-code repositories and version-control processes, including Git-based repositories, branching, merging, change tracking, and controlled software releases.
- Establish processes that ensure source code, configuration scripts, deployment artifacts, and other software components are appropriately version-controlled, traceable, and reproducible.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts supporting build, configuration, testing, deployment, security validation, compliance, and operational activities.
- Integrate automated security checks into development workflows to support continuous security validation and continuous compliance.
- Support development and maintenance of automated requirements traceability from foundational cybersecurity controls and architecture requirements through implementation and final Authority to Operate (ATO).
- Collaborate with cybersecurity engineers and architects to translate security requirements into automated technical controls, pipeline checks, deployment requirements, and configuration standards.
- Support secure engineering activities across applications, cloud platforms, networks, data environments, identity systems, and enterprise platforms.
- Review application and platform designs to identify potential security risks, control gaps, vulnerabilities, attack paths, and configuration weaknesses before implementation.
- Implement and maintain secure configuration baselines and automated controls supporting consistent configuration across operating systems, cloud-native platforms, applications, databases, and other enterprise technologies.
- Automate configuration and deployment processes using approved configuration-management frameworks and infrastructure automation technologies.
- Support continuous quality improvement by identifying opportunities to automate manual development, security, testing, deployment, and compliance processes.
- Develop automated workflows that improve the speed, repeatability, consistency, security, and reliability of software and infrastructure delivery.
- Support secure integration of cybersecurity tools and enterprise technologies through APIs, automation scripts, workflow orchestration, and other approved integration methods.
- Support development and maintenance of automated cybersecurity workflows, scripts, and configurations within Government-approved repositories and platforms.
- Assist with security tool integration and automation to reduce manual operational workload and improve enterprise cybersecurity effectiveness.
- Support software supply-chain security by helping ensure software components, dependencies, packages, patches, and other development artifacts meet applicable security and integrity requirements.
- Support generation, validation, or use of Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) where required as part of software supply-chain risk management activities.
- Ensure software and patches provided for VA environments are appropriately evaluated for malware, unauthorized modifications, and other software integrity risks.
- Support secure software delivery practices, including applicable code signing, software integrity validation, and controlled deployment processes.
- Develop, maintain, and deliver custom code, scripts, APIs, configuration scripts, schemas, metadata, deployment artifacts, and supporting technical documentation in accordance with applicable Government requirements.
- Ensure custom-developed code and technical artifacts are structured and documented to support Government ownership, reuse, maintenance, testing, and future development.
- Support cloud security engineering activities by incorporating appropriate security controls into cloud architectures, workloads, deployment pipelines, and operational processes.
- Work closely with software developers, cybersecurity architects, cloud engineers, security engineers, system administrators, configuration-management personnel, and Government stakeholders to integrate security into development and operational processes.
- Participate in technical design reviews, security engineering reviews, modernization initiatives, pilots, testing activities, and engineering working groups.
- Document DevSecOps architectures, pipeline configurations, automation workflows, security controls, technical procedures, system configurations, deployment processes, and integration points.
- Support audit and compliance activities by producing technical evidence demonstrating implementation of required security controls, configurations, testing, and automated compliance checks.
- Assist with remediation of security and compliance findings by developing or implementing automated corrective actions and technical solutions.
- Ensure DevSecOps activities align with applicable VA security policies, Government architecture requirements, approved development methodologies, and Federal cybersecurity requirements.
- Support VA modernization efforts by applying DevOps, DevSecOps, automation, cloud-native, and Lean-Agile principles to continuously deliver secure and sustainable IT capabilities.
- May require up to two onsite travel visits per year

Requirements:

- Minimum of 10 years of DevSecOps experience of which at least 5 years are of Cybersecurity and Cloud Security experience at a large Government agency similar in size/scope to GSA, IRS, DoD or VA.
- Expertise in DevSecOps or related fields, including experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud-native environments.
- Expertise in software development and familiarity with development practices, code repositories (e.g., Git), and version control.
- Expertise in cybersecurity roles that include performing security assessments, vulnerability management, and incident response.
- Expertise in integrating security tools into DevOps pipelines and automating security testing and compliance.

Preferred/Desired:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Assurance, Information Security, Information Resource Management, or related fields.
- CASP+ (SecurityX), CCISO, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, GCED, GCIH, GSLC, CCNP Security

Salary Range $98,135.18—$135,000 USD

9th Way Insignia’s range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Clearance/Background Investigation Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

## Benefits

Eligible employees will have access to our comprehensive benefits package which includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Life Insurance, 401(k), Basic Life A&D, STD, LTD, PTO, Telehealth, paid holidays, FSA, HSA. Additional resources include our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Traveling Assistance.

Legal We’re an equal employment opportunity employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

## About 9th Way Insignia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 9th Way Insignia is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides cybersecurity, automation, data science, and AI solutions to federal agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (SDVOSB; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly listed in available sources; operates primarily in the Washington, D.C. metro area with remote positions across the U.S.
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Steve Ikirt (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Federal IT & Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Government Contracting
- **Target customers**: U.S. federal agencies (Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation, Department of State, Department of Commerce, USPTO)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We reject predefined limitations—instead, we create new solutions. We redefine what’s possible in Technology, Cybersecurity, and Digital Transformation, forging innovative paths where others cling to conventional frameworks." (The "Ninth Way" philosophy)

## Products & Services
- **Cybersecurity**: System security engineering, risk management, and compliance for mission-critical federal systems.
- **Automation / Intelligent Automation**: Streamlining operations, reducing manual effort, and lowering costs through automated workflows.
- **Data Science & Artificial Intelligence**: Applied analytics, machine learning, and AI to drive insights and operational efficiency for government clients.
- **Software Development**: Custom application development, DevSecOps, and system integration (e.g., MUMPS, ServiceNow, Power BI, ETL).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (private company). Notable contract wins include the VA T4NG prime contract and a USPTO contract (reported value approx. $8M).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors; key partners include U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, HHS, DOT, DOC, State, and USPTO.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Insignia Technology Services in 2019, expanding into multiple federal agencies; maintains ISO 9001:2015 certification and CMMI Level 2 compliance; continued hiring across remote and DC-based roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **SDVOSB status** – Eligible for set-aside contracts and strongly aligned with federal veteran-hiring initiatives.
- **Specialized expertise** – Combines cybersecurity, automation, data science, and AI under one roof, tailored for government needs.
- **Proven delivery** – Holds key prime contracts (VA T4NG, USPTO) and certifications (ISO 9001, CMMI Level 2).
- **Culture of innovation** – The "Ninth Way" philosophy pushes beyond conventional government contracting approaches.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen relationships with existing federal clients while expanding into new agencies.
- Leverage automation and AI to drive cost savings and mission efficiency for government customers.
- Continue investing in veteran talent and maintaining a people-first culture to attract top mission-driven professionals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: People‑first, veteran‑friendly, with core values of Integrity, Courage, and Excellence.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Many roles are fully remote (United States); some positions require on-site in Washington, D.C. (e.g., VA contracts).
- **Benefits**: Competitive medical/dental/vision, HSA/FSA, 401(k) with up to 3% match, $3,000 annual professional development allowance (non-SCA FTEs), employer-paid life insurance, short/long-term disability, wellness program, telehealth.
- **Mission**: Opportunity to work on meaningful federal projects that directly support veterans and national priorities.

## Sources
1. [9thwayinsignia.com – Home](https://9thwayinsignia.com/)
2. [9thwayinsignia.com – About Us](https://9thwayinsignia.com/about-us/)
3. [9thwayinsignia.com – Careers](https://9thwayinsignia.com/careers/)
4. [Greenhouse – Jobs at 9th Way Insignia](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/9thwayinsignia)
5. [9thwayinsignia.com – New About Us](https://9thwayinsignia.com/new-about-us/)

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