DevSecOps Systems Engineer, TS/SCI with Poly

Blue Sky Innovators - Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Chantilly, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The position involves providing leadership in the application of DevSecOps concepts, processes, and tools to enhance operational capabilities. The role requires collaboration with various teams to support digital engineering strategies and governance, while also analyzing user needs and system architectures to develop requirements. The candidate will lead complex projects, advise on acquisition strategies, and engage with Agile Development teams to ensure effective implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in applying DevSecOps concepts, processes, and tools to help plan and define capabilities to support operations (e.g., automation, situational awareness, etc.).
• Support digital engineering strategy and governance development and implementation roadmap planning across contractor and government teams.
• Analyze user needs, concept of operations, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements.
• Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies.
• Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and in customer forums.
• Work with technical teams to help define scope and acquisition approach for a constant stream of program requirements and external stakeholders.
• Lead complex projects/issues that require in-depth cloud solution integration knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments.
• Help advise the government on acquisition decisions and strategies.
• Represent the government at developer lead release and sprint planning events; ensuring that the government and stakeholder needs are prioritized.
• Engage with Agile Development teams to assess implementation and execution.
• Operate as a strategic advisor to Senior Customers and apply hands-on experience to consult in the design, build, and maintain continuous integration (CI)/continuous delivery (CD) pipelines.
• Apply automated testing tools to automate testing.
• Guide the design, build and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines in multiple integration and test (I&T) environments.
• Install, configure, and manage automated testing tools in the environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's degree and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• 3+ years as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD orchestrator tools e.g., Jenkins, Maven, Ant, or similar CI/CD orchestrator tool(s).
• Experience with at least one configuration/deployment management system e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Salt, or other similar tools.
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure) specifically regarding key services e.g., EC2, S3, VPC, KMS, CloudFormation, IAM.
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project.
• Familiarity with Test Automation tools and frameworks: XUnit, Selenium, Cypress JS, SauceLabs, etc.