DevSecOps Engineer

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer in the McLean, VA area to join a growing practice delivering cloud and application development features. You will work on automation, tooling, and secure deployment processes across multiple cloud platforms with a focus on CI/CD, IaC, and secure coding practices.

The role expects 3–5 years of cloud and DevSecOps experience, plus hands-on experience with containers, orchestration, and automated testing within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience.
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• 3 Years of Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 3 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
• 3 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI
• 3 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• Certifications: AWS DevOps, Azure Dev, SAFe DevOps (preferred)
• Local to Washington, DC metro area (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understanding needs of stakeholders and conveying to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software fixes
• Working with developers to ensure processes work as intended
• Support enterprise Cloud apps or infra through infrastructure as code including automated server/network configurations
• Document as-is state, perform gap analysis, produce options/recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to modernize software systems
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor junior team members
• Promote continuous improvement for DevSecOps processes and tools
• Present status updates and cross-train team members
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for service improvements

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Git

Programming scripting

DevSecOps

Agile

Automation

Security

Test automation

NIH experience

AI experience

Education

BS IT or related field plus 2 yrs IT experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible

Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD/CircleCI/TravisCI

Concourse Bash PowerShell Python Groovy Ruby

Job description

Overview

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation.

Responsibilities

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• 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 any activities around 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
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• 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

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
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• 3 Years of Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 3 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
• 3 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI
• 3 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• NIH experience
• AI experience

Preferred:

• Certifications:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate
  • SAFe DevOps Certification
• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including Selenium
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred
• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Local to Washington, DC metro area