Senior DevSecOps Engineer

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer in McLean, VA to drive cloud and application development with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, and automation.

Responsibilities include automating build, test, and release processes, securing systems, and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating across teams to improve tooling and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience
• 3 years cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 3 years Git SCM experience (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• 3 years programming or scripting languages experience
• 3 years DevSecOps in Agile environment
• 3 years Docker and Kubernetes experience
• 3 years IaC and orchestration
• 3 years CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI
• 3 years integrating deployments with DevSecOps tooling
• Experience test automation in CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understand stakeholder needs and convey to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Test and review code written by others
• Ensure systems are secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop software updates and fixes
• Work with software developers to ensure processes are followed
• Support enterprise Cloud applications via infrastructure as code and automated configurations
• Document as-is state of environment and perform gap analysis
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to modernize systems
• Mentor junior team members and provide cross training
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes
• Engineer solutions and provide recommendations for service improvements
• Present regular status updates to DevOps teams

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Git SCM (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket)

Programming or scripting languages

DevSecOps in Agile

CI/CD pipelines

Docker & Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code & orchestration

Security clearance (US gov)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

CircleCI

TravisCI

Concourse

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Pivotal

Chef

Docker

Kubernetes

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 experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation.

Responsibilities

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey this to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop software updates and 'fixes'
• Work 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
• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of 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 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 Actions, 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

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
• Excellent 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
• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible