DevSecOps Engineer

$86,000 - $138,000/Yr

Peraton - Herndon, VA

Full-time

Herndon, VA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The DevSecOps Engineer at Peraton will play a crucial role in the Department of State's Consular Systems Modernization Program, focusing on modernizing and consolidating the operational environment. This position involves supporting the implementation of a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, ensuring adherence to DevSecOps practices, and improving system performance and reliability through automation and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Supports DevSecOps efforts to ensure delivery of a demand model leveraging continuous everything to reduce defects while increasing productivity and time-to-market.
• Assists with the establishment of CI/CD pipeline guidelines, standards, and strategies.
• Communicates with development teams to ensure adherence to CI/CD guidelines and standard DevSecOps processes.
• Under the direction of the DevSecOps SME, supports the technical planning, configuration, integration, verification, and validation of the pipeline toolchain.
• Implements automated methods that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including scripting, integration, and problem resolution related to the CI/CD pipeline toolchain.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience.
• At least two-years hands-on experience supporting DevOps/DevSecOps to reengineer and automate the software development process.
• Experience in the technical aspects of DevSecOps techniques, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment.
• Experience with distributed source control (Git).
• Experience with dependency management tools such as Maven, Gradle.
• Experience with leading CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TFS.
• Knowledge of Pipeline as Code scripting technologies.
• Experience with industry standard Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools such as SonarQube, Nexus IQ Server, Fortify.
• Hands-on experience integrating SCA tools into CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience with binary repository tools such as Nexus Repository for pulling dependencies and publishing build artifacts.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a large software development program using Agile (preferably SAFe) development methodology.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps for a Cloud-based system on a modernization program.
• Knowledge of Cloud Service Platforms such as AWS, Azure.
• Experience with container orchestration using tools such as Docker-compose.
• Experience with Container Management Platforms such as OpenShift.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with Continuous Monitoring tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluntd, Kibana).

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $86,000 - $138,000 based on experience and other factors.