DevSecOps Engineer

Torch Technologies; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled DevSecOps Engineer to join their innovative team focused on developing virtual training devices. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge gaming technology and interactive visualization products aimed at training soldiers and civilians. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment, enabling agile development teams to create robust solutions while mentoring junior members. If you are passionate about automation, infrastructure management, and security, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience.
• Current Certification for CompTIA Security+ and CCIA.

Responsibilities

• Deliver infrastructure in an On-Premise Corporate IT Managed environment and Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Mentor junior team members and lead in architecting solutions.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Prometheus

SonarQube

Virtualization

Containerization

Interpersonal Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Perforce

Job description

Torch Technologies, a 100 percent employee-owned company, is seeking a professional DevSecOps Engineer to join a team currently developing virtual training devices. Candidates applying for this position will have the opportunity to work with gaming technology and interactive visualization products for training soldiers and civilians.

The candidate selected for this position will enable multiple agile development teams in creating development and operational environments for developers, artists, and subject matter experts. The ideal candidate must be able to work well both independently and within a multi-disciplinary collaborative team environment. The teams are developing a reusable framework and customer applications using the framework.

Expectations and Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Advanced VizLab, you are expected to be a positive, pro-active, and contributing team member, both within the lab, and across the company.
• You will be responsible for delivering infrastructure operating in an On-Premise Corporate IT Managed environment and the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• You will contribute to the processes for building and integrating software components into a fully functional software system.
• You will have a focus on both fast iteration and long-term architecture while creating maintainable, testable, well-structured solutions.
• You will be expected to mentor junior level team members and take a leading role in architecting solutions.

Personal Requirements:

• Exceptional interpersonal communications skills. Able to effectively communicate in verbal and written form.
• Must be organized, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and anticipate business needs.
• Excited to explain complex technical concepts and share knowledge with diverse audiences both internally and externally.
• US Citizenship is required for this position
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a United States SECRET clearance is required for employment in this position.

Technical Requirements:

• Maintain modularity and reproducibility of infrastructure for multiple environments by provisioning infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and Ansible . Proactively eliminate toilsome tasks through automation.
• Manage the configuration of all services and environments used by the team.
• Maintain technical documentation for infrastructure.
• Proficient with virtualization, containerization, automation of container management using technologies such as Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes.
• Manage the instrumentation of services and build dashboards to facilitate monitoring and alerting for incident response and capacity planning using services like Prometheus, Loki, and Graphana.
• Test and evaluate solutions for vulnerabilities using SonarQube and similar services.
• Enable team to deliver continuously by extending and creating CI/CD pipelines. Troubleshoot performance issues and broken deployments.
• Ensure on call team members are adequately supported with runbooks for alerts and scenarios they may encounter.
• Assist the team in architecting scalable and secure solutions.
• Current Certification for CompTIA Security+, CCIA
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other relevant field of study and +5 years of professional experience.

Desired but Not Required Experience:

• +3 years professional working experience in Cloud Dev Ops.
• Administration of Atlassian products Jira & Confluence as well as Software Repositories such as GitLab and Perforce.
• Experience with High-Availability configurations of critical services such as PostgreSQL
• Expert Administrator with multiple Server and Desktop Operating Systems.
• Proficient with Network Service Configuration(HTTP&HTTPS, DNS, Identity Managers, Certificates, etc.)
• Additional Relevant Certifications such as CCIE, CompTIA Network+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate

About the company

Torch Technologies is a 100% employee-owned system engineering, applied science, modeling & simulation and information technology business.