DevSecOps Associate: Cloud Automation & CI/CD (Part-Time)

Steampunk, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking an Associate DevSecOps Engineer in the McLean, VA area to join a growing DevSecOps practice focused on cloud and application development. You will help automate build/release, implement CI/CD pipelines, and support infrastructure as code initiatives while working with containerization technologies and security best practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with developers, stakeholders, and operations to streamline processes, improve tooling, and ensure secure, reliable

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• Experience with one or more clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• Must have current DHS SASS PT
• Must have knowledge of Design Intelligence Methodology

Responsibilities

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members

Skills

Cloud platforms knowledge

Git tooling

Programming or scripting languages

Communication skills

Education

BS Degree in IT or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI)

Job description

Steampunk is seeking an Associate DevSecOps Engineer in the McLean, VA area to join a growing DevSecOps practice focused on cloud and application development. You will help automate build/release, implement CI/CD pipelines, and support infrastructure as code initiatives while working with containerization technologies and security best practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with developers, stakeholders, and operations to streamline processes, improve tooling, and ensure secure, reliable