Junior DevSecOps Engineer

BLN24•Mclean, VA

26d•Hybrid

About The Position

BLN24 is seeking a Junior DevSecOps Engineer to support a cloud-native, web-based modernization of a mission-critical forecasting system. The selected candidate will help build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployments for modern micro-frontend and microservices-based applications.

Requirements

1–2 years of DevOps experience.
1+ year of AWS experience, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, or EKS.
1+ year of GitLab CI/CD experience, or comparable experience with GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience.
Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or Node.js.
Experience with Terraform or AWS CDK; Terraform preferred.
Linux administration.
Git version control experience.

Nice To Haves

AWS Certifications
Experience with real-time web applications, WebSocket, or WebGL

Responsibilities

Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for micro-frontends and microservices.
Implement automated testing, security scanning, including SAST/DAST, and deployment workflows.
Manage container builds and AWS ECR container registries.
Configure GitOps workflows.
Support blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
Provision cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
Manage AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB.
Support auto-scaling, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and multi-region deployments.
Deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads, including Deployments, StatefulSets, and HPA.
Create and maintain Helm charts for application packaging.
Troubleshoot pod failures, resource constraints, and deployment issues.
Support service mesh configuration, including Istio or Linkerd, as needed.
Support FISMA High and FedRAMP Moderate compliance requirements.
Manage IAM policies, Secrets Manager, and KMS encryption.
Support human-level validations for Gen-AI led test-driven design processes.