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 our growing DevSecOps practice, 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 work will involve establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation, understanding stakeholder needs, and conveying these requirements to developers. You will be responsible for automating and improving development, testing, deployment, and release processes, ensuring that systems are secure against cybersecurity threats, and identifying technical problems through root cause analysis. In this position, you will collaborate closely with software developers and engineers to ensure that development processes are followed and function as intended. You will support enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code, which includes automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing activities such as CI/CD. Additionally, you will document the current state of the environment, perform gap analyses, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations. Leveraging virtualization and containerization will be key to optimizing and modernizing software systems. As an individual contributor, you will also have the opportunity to mentor junior team members and work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools. Regular status updates and cross-training for other DevOps team members will be part of your responsibilities.

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
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 7 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 7 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 7 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• 7 Years of Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 7 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
• 7 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI
• 7 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 solutioning around DevSecOps Principles

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate
• SAFe DevOps Certification
• Experience in IT Federal Contracting
• 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

Benefits

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