DevSecOps Engineer for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)

General Dynamics Information Technology•Annapolis Junction, MD

1d•$161,500 - $218,500•Onsite

About The Position

The DevSecOps Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings. This role involves automating and optimizing service deployments, integrating with enterprise authentication services, and establishing/improving system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems. The engineer will architect, build, and maintain on-premise and/or cloud infrastructure, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (e.g., autoscaling, supporting new services, optimizing for cost efficiencies), and administer production, staging, and development environments. Responsibilities also include managing and aggregating server logs, monitoring for security and system-related incidents, analyzing system performance, maintaining and improving build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools, applying configuration management disciplines, enforcing best practices for security and reliability, working with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements, maintaining up-to-date documentation, performing after-actions reporting on outages, creating required metrics for dashboards, following up on engineering tasks, managing the operational readiness board, and tracking routine operations maintenance tasks. The role aligns with customer strategies, utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline, and works with other service providers.

Requirements

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
8+ years of related experience
3+ years of related systems programming experience
Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
Must be able to obtain TS/SCI w/Poly
US citizenship required
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

Nice To Haves

On-call support may be required

Responsibilities

Automate and optimize service deployments
Integrate with enterprise authentication services
Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems
Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
Administer production, staging and development environments
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
Aligns to the customer's strategies
Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest