DevSecOps Engineer

Steampunk - McLean, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

McLean, VA

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About the position

As a DevSecOps Engineer at Steampunk, you will play a crucial role in delivering features that support cloud and application development within our growing DevSecOps practice. This position requires a blend of technical expertise and collaboration with stakeholders to enhance development processes, ensuring security and efficiency in our systems. You will be responsible for establishing development tools, automating processes, and mentoring junior team members, all while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

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
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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 actual/active 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 Pipelines, 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
• Experience required with the following: GCP, Openshift / Helm / ArgoCD, Terraform / Ansible, Harness / Jenkins

Nice-to-haves

• 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, 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $90,000 to $165,000
• Employee ownership
• Opportunities for professional development
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Flexible work environment