DevSecOps Engineer

Soft Tech Consulting•Washington, DC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a DevSecOps Engineer. This role will maintain multiple client-managed cloud application stacks (Tomcat, Drupal, React, Node.js, Nginx, etc.) running as Linux containers on Amazon ECS clusters and support the IaC (AWS Cloudformation) and functional CI/CD Gitlab runner pipelines. The ideal candidate should have foundational multi-tier architectural knowledge, deployment, and maintenance, along with foundational knowledge of AWS cloud engineering. This role requires experience in building and supporting container applications running Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Drupal, and Node.js, supporting the remediation of security vulnerabilities, supporting and managing PKI certs, and basic REST and SOAP API integration experience.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Foundational multi-tier architectural knowledge, deployment, and maintenance
Foundational knowledge of AWS cloud engineering
Experience in building and supporting container applications running Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Drupal, and Node.js
Experience supporting the remediation of security vulnerabilities
Experience supporting and managing PKI certs
Basic REST and SOAP API integration experience
AWS Cloud engineering skills with ECS and/or EKS experience (Advanced proficiency level)
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools (Advanced proficiency level)
Experience with SSL/TLS certificate and PKI management (Advanced proficiency level)
AI Code Assist (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) (Intermediate proficiency level)
Tomcat, Drupal, Nginx, Node.js administration and deployment (Intermediate proficiency level)
Git (Intermediate proficiency level)
Linux (Intermediate proficiency level)
Ability to read application and system logs and perform basic troubleshooting (Intermediate proficiency level)
REST and SOAP API Integration experience (Intermediate proficiency level)
Basic scripting experience with Bash, Python, or PowerShell (Intermediate proficiency level)
Basic understanding of relational databases and SQL (Beginner proficiency level)
Container vulnerability and security remediations (Beginner proficiency level)
AWS Cloud Operations (Advanced)
Infrastructure AS Code (IaC) (Advanced)
Docker Container (Advanced)
Certificate Management Implementation (SSL/TLS)
AI Code Assist (Claude Code, Codex, etc.(Intermediate)
Able to work with minimal supervision with little to no oversight
Excellent interpersonal/communication and written skills

Nice To Haves

AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification

Responsibilities

Maintain multiple client-managed cloud application stacks (Tomcat, Drupal, React, Node.js, Nginx, etc.) running as Linux containers on Amazon ECS clusters and support the IaC (AWS Cloudformation) and functional CI/CD Gitlab runner pipelines.
Build and maintain Linux-based Docker Containers (Advanced proficiency level)
Develop and maintain IaC using Cloudformation (Intermediate proficiency level)