Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Steampunk; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer in McLean, Virginia. You will deliver features to support cloud and application development with a strong focus on automation and security practices.

The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of experience with CI/CD processes, is familiar with various cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and has a Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field. The compensation for this role ranges from $150,000 to $185,000 per year.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience with cloud platform services.
• 5+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation.
• Automating and improving the development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Ensuring systems are secure against cybersecurity threats.

Skills

Cloud platform services

DevSecOps practices

Automation

Git SCM

Containerization using Docker

Orchestration using Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in an IT-related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Overview

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7 years of experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation.

Contributions

Responsibilities include:

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Automating and improving 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
• Supporting 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
• Documenting as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leveraging virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems
• Acting as an individual contributor and mentoring team members
• Engineering and implementing solutions and providing recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Presenting regular status updates and providing cross training to other DevOps team members

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s Degree in an IT-related field and 8+ years of experience
• 5+ years of experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 5+ years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices within an Agile development environment
• 3+ years of experience implementing containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• 5+ years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• 5+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI
• Experience implementing and managing industry-standard DevSecOps tools across the SDLC
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree in an IT related field
• Certifications:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
  • SAFe DevOps Certification
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium)
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, performing a gap analysis, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Experience scripting in languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $150,000 to $185,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.