DevSecOps Engineer

Steampunk•McLean, VA

5d•$80,000 - $175,000

About The Position

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with Steampunk’s growing DevSecOps practice to deliver features supporting cloud and application development. The role focuses on cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices, including build and release management, CI/CD, and process automation. You will contribute as an individual contributor, mentor junior team members, and collaborate with teams to improve DevSecOps processes and tools. The position also involves engineering and implementing solutions, recommending continuous improvements, providing status updates, and cross-training DevOps team members. Steampunk describes itself as a government contractor focused on human-centered design, creative problem-solving, and challenging established approaches. The role supports enterprise cloud applications and infrastructure and contributes to work for federal clients.

Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
At least 3 years of experience with one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
At least 3 years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
At least 3 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.
At least 3 years of application DevSecOps experience, including development experience in an Agile environment.
At least 3 years of experience implementing Docker containers and using platforms such as Kubernetes.
At least 3 years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration.
At least 3 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or TravisCI.
At least 3 years of experience integrating deployments with industry-standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration.
Experience integrating automated performance, security, and functional testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.
Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate certification.
SAFe DevOps Certification.
Experience implementing automated testing frameworks, including Selenium.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills.
Experience documenting an as-is environment, performing a gap analysis, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations.
Experience scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby.
Experience with automation tools such as Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Responsibilities

Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation.
Understand stakeholder needs and convey them to developers.
Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes.
Test and examine code written by others and analyze results.
Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop software updates and fixes.
Work with software developers and engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended.
Support enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code, including automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, monitoring, and testing such as CI/CD.
Document the as-is state of the environment, perform gap analysis, and produce artifacts that describe options and recommendations.
Use virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems.
Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members.
Work with teams to continuously improve DevSecOps processes and tools.
Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement of services.
Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other DevOps team members.