DevSecOps Engineer

ShorePoint•Herndon, VA

9d•Remote

About The Position

ShorePoint is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer with hands-on experience supporting cloud-based cybersecurity data systems in fast-paced public sector environments. The ideal candidate will drive operational excellence by engineering, operating and monitoring distributed data infrastructure in collaboration with data engineers, architects and security analysts. The DevSecOps Engineer role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to government cyber data modernization through observability, automation and DevOps practices. This is a unique opportunity to shape the growth, development and culture of an exciting and fast-growing company in the cybersecurity market.

Requirements

DevOps Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Git and CI/CD pipelines.
System automation languages such as Python, Bash and use of editors like VSCode.
IT operations and troubleshooting, including resolving issues related to data connections and sources.
System maintenance tasks such as patching and vulnerability management.
Implementation of IT best practices, including ITIL, change management and configuration management.
Advanced Linux systems administration and performance tuning.
AWS cloud services including VPC, EC2, IAM, Config, SecurityHub and AWS CLI usage.
Configuration and monitoring using Elasticsearch, Splunk, Grafana and other time-series data platforms.
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field or 4+ additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
5+ years of experience operating and maintaining large-scale IT systems or supporting system/application integration.
Proficiency in administering Linux operating systems.
Experience querying APIs to extract and use performance metrics.
AWS cloud experience, including AWS CLI, Config and SecurityHub.
Intermediate proficiency in Python programming (e.g., AWS Lambda, Boto3 and requests).
Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
Proven ability to analyze ambiguous requirements and translate them into clear, actionable tasks and processes through critical thinking.
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance, in compliance with federal contract requirements.

Nice To Haves

Active Q clearance.
Familiarity with government cloud environments.
Knowledge of cyber data analytics.
Experience with distributed systems integration.
Intermediate networking experience (e.g., DNS, ports, firewalls, VPC networking).
Understanding of information security principles.
Familiarity with Splunk infrastructure and administration.
Familiarity with NISTIR 8112 standards.

Responsibilities

Provide operational engineering support for cyber data systems in government cloud environments.
Build and integrate IT best practices and operational excellence into all areas of the project.
Ensure system availability by building observability into large, distributed cybersecurity data infrastructures.
Develop and maintain systems to monitor data ingestion and storage pipelines.
Produce dashboards and reports to inform stakeholders on operational metrics, system status, performance and capacity.
Operate, administer and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and platform services.
Collaborate in an Agile DevOps team using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices.
Communicate effectively with team members and maintain documentation for technical procedures.