Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud Automation Leader

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

Job summary

Steampunk, Inc. in McLean, VA seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to deliver features for cloud and application development, focusing on CI/CD, automation, and secure deployment practices.

You will establish automated tooling, implement infrastructure as code, build and optimize pipelines, mentor teammates, and collaborate with stakeholders to improve security and performance across enterprise cloud applications.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 10 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and 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 application DevSecOps experience with development experience in an Agile environment.
• 5 years of experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes.
• 5 years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration.
• 5 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI.
• 5 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.

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 team members
• 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

Skills

Cloud platforms

Git hosting

Programming/scripting

DevSecOps practice

CI/CD pipelines

Docker & Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Test automation

Security clearance

Leadership

Automation tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

TravisCI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Concourse

Selenium

Pivotal

Chef

Job description

Steampunk, Inc. in McLean, VA seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to deliver features for cloud and application development, focusing on CI/CD, automation, and secure deployment practices.

You will establish automated tooling, implement infrastructure as code, build and optimize pipelines, mentor teammates, and collaborate with stakeholders to improve security and performance across enterprise cloud applications.