DevSecOps Engineer (Pipeline)

Steampunk•McLean, VA

7d•$80,000 - $175,000

About The Position

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with Steampunk’s growing DevSecOps practice to deliver features that support cloud and application development. The role focuses on cloud platform services, build and release management, CI/CD practices, process automation, secure systems, and continuous improvement. You will support enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure using infrastructure as code, virtualization, and containerization. You will contribute individually, mentor junior team members, provide status updates, and cross-train other DevOps team members. Steampunk is a federal contracting company serving clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD sectors. The company uses a Human-Centered delivery methodology and emphasizes shared accountability in addressing client mission challenges. Applicants should note that they are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments; Steampunk may take a picture to verify identity and prevent fraud.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in an IT field, or a bachelor’s degree in a non-IT field plus 2 years of related IT experience.
3 years of experience with one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
3 years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
3 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.
3 years of application DevSecOps experience, including active development experience in an Agile environment.
3 years of experience implementing Docker containers and using platforms such as Kubernetes.
3 years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration.
3 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, or TravisCI.
3 years of experience integrating deployments with industry-standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration.
Experience integrating automated performance, security, and functional tests 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, interpersonal, and collaborative skills.
Experience documenting an environment’s current state, performing a gap analysis, and producing artifacts that present options and recommendations.
Experience scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby.
Experience with automation tools, including 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 current state of the environment, perform gap analysis, and produce artifacts presenting 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 continually improve DevSecOps processes and tools.
Engineer and implement solutions and recommend continuous improvement for provided services.
Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other DevOps team members.