DevSecOps Engineer

Sparibis•Washington, DC

18d•Remote

About The Position

Sparibis LLC is seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevSecOps Engineer to join their team. This is a 100% remote position requiring 7+ years of professional DevOps experience and a Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field. The role involves designing, building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD workflows and pipelines, implementing infrastructure-as-code, and ensuring security best practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS Cloud Services, CI/CD frameworks, containerization, and cybersecurity requirements. Familiarity with AI Assisted Coding tools and GenAI services is also a plus. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance, and US citizenship is mandatory for this eligibility.

Requirements

7+ years of professional experience with focus in planning, building and supporting AWS Cloud and DevSecOps environments.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in IT related field required.
Must have experience designing, building, and deploying in AWS Cloud Services including EKS, EC2, and/or Lambda.
Must have experience with deploying and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code
Extensive experience with CI/CD frameworks and containerized pipelines and orchestration using Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins.
Familiar or hands-on experience leveraging AI Assisted Coding tools (GitLab Duo, GitHub Copilot) and Cloud based GenAI foundational services such as AWS Bedrock.
Extensive DevSecOps experience with the design, install, configuration, security checking during stages, automating software builds, testing, and deployments.
AWS Kinesis experience for managing data streams and monitoring performance
Experience with application and system performance monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch and/or Splunk.
Must have experience with GitLab and/or GitHub Actions for version control, source code management, and automation of workflows.
Experience with cybersecurity requirements such as secure-by-design and zero-trust architecture.
Experience utilizing SonarQube for inspection of code quality and identifying bugs and security vulnerabilities.
Experience with Nexus IQ and/or Checkmarx preferred to improve security and identify risks by identifying vulnerabilities preferred.
Experience conducting vulnerability scanning.
Must have experience in Linux and scripting tools such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Experience setting up and configuring monitoring tools for log analysis (Nagios, ELK, Grafana, and/or Prometheus) preferred.
Strong experience operating within Agile environments using Jira for issue tracking and sprint management, and Confluence for technical documentation
Understanding of security best practices and the ability to implement security measures in CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure.
Must have strong communication skills and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Active Secret security clearance preferred.
Experience with Nexus IQ and/or Checkmarx preferred to improve security and identify risks by identifying vulnerabilities preferred.
Experience setting up and configuring monitoring tools for log analysis (Nagios, ELK, Grafana, and/or Prometheus) preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the development team in deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting web applications.
Build, Design, Deploy, and Monitor new CI/CD workflows, pipelines, and improve the scope of existing ones.
Plan, develop, and deploy infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible tools.
Use Ansible as the configuration management tool for maintaining and configuring servers as well as experience with change tracking processes.
Utilize GitLab to automate code deployments, vulnerability scanning and infrastructure provisioning in AWS.
Implement AI Assisted Coding workflows using GitLab Duo to accelerate software delivery, automate code reviews, and streamline debugging processes.
Collaborate with development teams to securely integrate and manage foundational AI models using AWS Bedrock while ensuring data privacy and compliance.
Ensure compliance with security requirements by implementing and managing security controls and policies within the cloud environment.
Implement migration efforts with application teams.
Respond to incidents and handling alerts.
Analyze and resolve issues in the development and production environments.
Thoroughly document and maintain records of processes, configurations, and system changes.
Resolve performance bottlenecks in the infrastructure and applications.
Operate within Agile environments using Jira for issue tracking and sprint management, and Confluence for technical documentation.
Work in an Agile environment as part of a full design and development team, participating in scrum ceremonies, interacting with and supporting our customers.