Onsite DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & DoD Security

Saic; Hampton (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC in Hampton, VA is seeking a full-time onsite DevSecOps Engineer to support the AOC WS Falconer AppTX team. The role focuses on automating infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell, and implementing DoD cybersecurity controls within AWS and on-prem environments.

The candidate writes code for IaC/Configuration-as-Code, develops CI/CD pipelines, and manages Windows, Linux, and containerized apps in Kubernetes, collaborating with diverse teams to ensure compliance and timely

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and nine (9) years or more experience; Master’s and seven (7) years or more experience.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Experience with Windows Server operating systems.
• Experience with automation tools including Ansible, and/or PowerShell.
• Experience with Git-based source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, etc.
• Familiar with infrastructure automation tools including Terraform.
• Familiarity with DoD cybersecurity controls, scans, and remediation of findings.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the AWS Console, and AWS CLI.

Responsibilities

• Builds systems on virtual machine instances through both manual and automated means, in both AWS cloud environments as well as on-premise edge computing environments.
• Applies required cybersecurity controls.
• Configures cloud resources as needed for both application functionality and cybersecurity compliance.
• Supports testing of cloud-hosted virtualized systems.
• Build VM-based systems, install, and configure applications, and support operations and sustainment of those systems in development, test, and production environments.
• Support the cybersecurity monitoring, including the assessment of any identified vulnerabilities and implementation of remediation as required.
• Develop automation code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python or Bash scripts to partially or fully automate the deployment, installation, and configuration of a large number of server and client applications on Windows and Linux servers, as well as a few containerized applications hosted in Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop, execute, and troubleshoot automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with virtual machine instances, cloud resource configurations, and automation pipelines.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation as required.
• Collaborate with the AppTX team and other stakeholders, including system administrators, developers, managers, and auditors, to implement AppTX requirements in a timely manner.
• Adhere to source code configuration control processes using Git.
• Develop code to apply required Cybersecurity controls via infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code.
• Develop code to configure cloud resources as needed for both application functionality and cybersecurity compliance.

Skills

Automation mindset

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting

DoD cybersecurity familiarity

Cloud/AWS familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

AWS

Linux

Windows Server

Kubernetes

Git

GitLab CI/CD

Python

Bash

Job description

SAIC in Hampton, VA is seeking a full-time onsite DevSecOps Engineer to support the AOC WS Falconer AppTX team. The role focuses on automating infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell, and implementing DoD cybersecurity controls within AWS and on-prem environments.

The candidate writes code for IaC/Configuration-as-Code, develops CI/CD pipelines, and manages Windows, Linux, and containerized apps in Kubernetes, collaborating with diverse teams to ensure compliance and timely