DevSecOps Engineer

$100,000 - $140,000/Yr

Maximus Services - Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time - Senior

Colorado Springs, CO

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Maximus is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to provide expertise to a federal client in support of their mission-critical systems in defense of our Homeland. The role involves integrating security practices into the software development lifecycle and ensuring the reliability and security of these systems. The engineer will innovate and develop solutions through automation and collaborate with various teams to maintain secure and automated infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and develop cutting-edge solutions through automation - IaC (Infrastructure as Code), DevSecOps tools (CICD, Code quality, security, and monitoring).
• Ensure the infrastructure, services, and applications developed meet all standards including security, monitoring, performance, and SLAs.
• Demonstrable experience releasing production code and developing PaaS/SaaS.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to design, implement, and maintain secure and automated infrastructure.
• Implement security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including code scanning, vulnerability assessment, and threat modeling.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment of applications.
• Develop and maintain containerization and micro-services.
• Integrate security controls, such as automated vulnerability scanning, static and dynamic analysis, and security testing, into the CI/CD process.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements.
• Automate and orchestrate security processes, including incident response and threat detection, using technologies like Splunk, Chef Automate, and others.
• Stay updated with emerging DevSecOps trends, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations for implementing new technologies.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers in DevSecOps practices and techniques.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• 12+ years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or related field.
• Experience in Docker Enterprise, Splunk, Chef, Chef Automate, Chef (Ruby), Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, Openshift.
• Hands-on working experience in Terraform (IaC), Jenkins groovy scripts, and Python.

Benefits

• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan