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title: 'DevSecOps Engineer at Istari Digital'
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# DevSecOps Engineer at Istari Digital

- **Company:** Istari Digital
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $135k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/istaridigital.ai/69e4b6ad-dc1a-4b84-991d-2f293c766769

## Job description

We are seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role is critical to securing, hardening, and scaling the infrastructure that powers our platform across cloud-hosted production environments. This engineer will work closely with platform, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to improve the security and operational maturity of our AWS and Kubernetes environments, support compliance and audit readiness, and help ensure our systems are reliable, secure, and maintainable as we grow. This role will also support environments serving regulated and security-sensitive customer needs, including an environment we host for a Government organization. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on infrastructure expertise with sound security judgment and a practical, execution-focused mindset. They should be comfortable working across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, operating systems, compliance controls, and production operations.

Core Responsibilities Responsibilities include collaborating with the platform and engineering teams to secure and improve production infrastructure, harden cloud and host configurations, and build repeatable operational practices across environments. Key responsibilities include:

- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure in AWS

- Manage, secure, and improve Kubernetes-based environments, including production workloads

- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform

- Harden production systems across cloud, compute, container, identity, and network layers

- Develop and maintain secure baseline configurations for infrastructure and platform services

- Support vulnerability management, patching, remediation, and configuration compliance efforts across environments

- Configure, administer, and patch both Linux and Windows VMs

- Support identity and access management practices, including least privilege, role design, and privileged access controls

- Contribute to administration and integration of Active Directory domains where needed

- Partner with engineering teams to improve security within CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and operational processes

- Support compliance initiatives, audits, evidence collection, and technical control validation

- Develop and maintain documentation, operational runbooks, technical standards, and playbooks

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure and security issues with clear and timely communication

- Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis when infrastructure or platform issues arise

- Stay current on cloud, infrastructure, and security best practices that can improve platform resilience and delivery

Required Qualifications

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Security Engineering

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments

- Proven experience with Kubernetes, preferably in production

- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices

- Experience hardening production environments and implementing secure configuration standards

- Experience supporting compliance frameworks, audit preparation, evidence gathering, and control validation

- Experience with vulnerability remediation, system patching, and operational security practices

- Experience configuring and maintaining both Linux and Windows virtual machines

- Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, network security, logging, monitoring, and operational controls

- Proven experience improving or securing CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows

- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in complex production environments

- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Must live/work in the U.S.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting environments with regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive requirements

- Familiarity with compliance or security frameworks such as SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001, CMMC, or similar

- Experience with EKS or other managed Kubernetes platforms

- Experience configuring or supporting Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, or hybrid identity environments

- Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, or similar

- Experience with PostgreSQL, cloud storage platforms, and production networking patterns

- Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or PowerShell

- Experience with security tooling related to container security, vulnerability management, or policy enforcement

- Experience supporting customer-facing or mission-critical production infrastructure

- Security+ Certification

- Top Secret Security Clearance

## About Istari Digital

Istari is a digital engineering software company building open, scalable infrastructure for engineering data. Our platform lets customers simply and securely integrate engineering models across disciplines, organizations, and security levels — whether they're designing prototypes, performing virtual testing, or training AI and autonomy for complex systems. Focus is rewarded.  Finish is remembered. Facts are friendly.  Even when they are not fun. Fellowship is fundamental.  Make others successful.

## About Istari Digital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Istari Digital provides a digital engineering infrastructure platform that connects and validates engineering data across fragmented environments for mission-critical industries like aerospace, defense, and energy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A‑II; venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Dr. Will Roper (CEO) and Christopher Benson (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Aerospace, defense, space, energy, transportation, critical infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and government organizations in “no‑fail” sectors (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin)
- **Mission**: “Level the digital playing field in no‑fail industries” – enabling secure, auditable, and AI‑native engineering workflows without centralizing sensitive data

## Products & Services
- **[Istari Digital Platform](https://www.istaridigital.com/product)**: A digital infrastructure that securely routes engineering data across tools, teams, and classification boundaries. It connects models, simulations, and workflows to enable real‑time collaboration, system validation, and compliance certification – all while keeping data under the owner’s control. (Type: SaaS / Platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $55.05M (per CBInsights) or $40.1M (per LinkedIn); conflicting reports may reflect different round definitions
- **Notable Investors**: Icon Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, Eric Schmidt, AeroX Ventures, Radius Capital
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 64 employees (+61.5% year‑over-year)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 48.1% in the past year
  - Acquired Istari Federal LLC and Dgraph (2025)
  - Customers include Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin
  - 27 patents filed (as of early 2025)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built for no‑fail industries**: The platform is designed for environments where failure is not an option (fighter jets, satellites, critical infrastructure), giving it a deep credibility moat.
- **Secure collaboration without compromise**: Enables cross‑organization, cross‑classification collaboration while allowing each party to retain control of their own data – a key differentiator in defense and regulated sectors.
- **Agentic engineering & AI‑native workflows**: Integrates AI into engineering validation and certification, reducing cycles from months to minutes.
- **Founders with domain expertise**: CEO Will Roper was the former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; CTO Christopher Benson brings deep technical experience from hyperscalers and defense programs.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the platform to serve more mission‑critical industries (air, sea, space, energy, transportation)
- Deepening AI capabilities for automated validation, compliance, and certification
- Expanding through acquisitions (Istari Federal, Dgraph) to strengthen federal presence and graph‑based data capabilities
- Building a distributed workforce with offices in Arlington (HQ), Cambridge (MA), and remote roles across the US

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Employees work on genuinely hard, unsolved problems in decentralized data sovereignty, AI engineering, and cross‑domain security – with direct impact on national security and critical infrastructure.
- **Remote‑friendly**: Many roles are listed as remote (anywhere US) or hybrid (DMV area); on‑site options exist in Huntsville, AL and Seattle, WA.
- **Diverse team background**: The team comes from defense, industry, academia, government, and startups – “everyone’s background is a feature, not a footnote.”
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth, recent acquisitions, and strong investor backing suggest a high‑growth environment with ample career development opportunities.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on deep curiosity, craft, and solving problems that matter; the platform is built by people who have lived the pain of manual, siloed engineering workflows.

## Sources
1. [Istari Digital – Company & Product Overview](https://www.istaridigital.com/)
2. [Istari Digital – About (Founders, Mission, Culture)](https://www.istaridigital.com/about)
3. [Istari Digital – Product Page](https://www.istaridigital.com/product)
4. [Istari Digital – Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/istaridigital.ai/)
5. [CBInsights – Company Profile & Financials](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/istari-1)
6. [LinkedIn – Istari Digital Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/istaridigital)

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