Steampunk - McLean, VA
posted about 2 months ago
As a DevSecOps Engineer at Steampunk, you will be an integral part of our growing DevSecOps practice, focusing on delivering features that support cloud and application development. We are seeking candidates with 3-5 years of experience in cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices, including build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation. Your role will involve establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation, understanding stakeholder needs, and conveying these requirements to developers. You will automate and enhance development, testing, deployment, and release processes, ensuring that systems are secure against cybersecurity threats. In this position, you will be responsible for testing and examining code written by others, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and fixes. You will collaborate with software developers and engineers to ensure adherence to established processes and functionality. Supporting enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code will be a key aspect of your role, including activities related to automated server or network configurations and large-scale software deployments. You will document the current state of the environment, conduct gap analyses, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations. Additionally, you will leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems, act as an individual contributor while mentoring junior team members, and work with teams to foster continuous improvement in DevSecOps processes and tools. Regular status updates and cross-training for other DevOps team members will also be part of your responsibilities.