Senior DevSecOps (Pipeline) Engineer

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

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to advance our DevSecOps practice, delivering automation for cloud and application development. The role requires 5–7 years of relevant experience with cloud services, CI/CD, and security-focused DevSecOps practices.

The candidate will establish automation infrastructure, mentor the team, and contribute to continuous improvement across deployment pipelines, tooling, and processes. Expect active collaboration with developers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years with one or more cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• 5+ years with Git SCM providers (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket).
• 5+ years with programming or scripting languages.
• 5+ years DevSecOps in Agile environments.
• 3+ years implementing Docker and Kubernetes.
• 5+ years IaC and orchestration.
• 5+ years building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI).
• 5+ years integrating deployments with DevSecOps tooling and orchestration.
• Experience with test automation integration into CI/CD (performance, security, functional).

Responsibilities

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understanding stakeholders' needs 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, performing root cause analysis, and developing fixes
• Mentor team members and ensure processes are followed
• Document as-is state of the environment and produce options/recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to modernize software systems
• Present status updates and cross-train DevOps teammates

Skills

Cloud platforms

Git SCM

Scripting languages

DevSecOps

Agile

IaC

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security engineering

Education

BS in IT or related field with IT experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Concourse

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 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
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• 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.

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
• 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 actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• 3 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 Pipelines, 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

Preferred:

• MS Degree

• DOD Tier 3 clearance

• Certifications:
  • CompTIA Network+
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
  • 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