Principal DevSecOps Engineer: HSV-2518

deciBel Research•Huntsville, AL

27d•Onsite

About The Position

deciBel Research seeks a DevSecOps engineer with five years' experience for the GMD Weapon System (GWS) Network and Infrastructure team on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Candidates must be able to work on an agile team and support an in-person, closed-area work environment. The successful candidate can communicate effectively, and is eager to expand their knowledge to continually improve.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience or a Master's degree and 3 years of related experience, or PhD with 1 year of experience.
A DOD 8140 IAT Level II certification (ex: Security + CE)
Strong systems administrator experience in Windows and Linux
Experience working with cloud technologies and platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud
Experience with DevSecOps practices, approaches, requirements, and iteration plans for a large-scale classified government system
Familiarity with agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services
Interest and aptitude in developing infrastructure as code scripts in Terraform and Helm to provision cloud resources
Familiarity with configuring and maintaining DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools including best practices, automated builds and tests, quality gates, software quality, and CI tools such as Jenkins.
Ability to write or review software code (Java, Python, etc.)
Applicant selected must have an active Secret security clearance.
Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Nice To Haves

Containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud orchestration technologies.
Configuration management tools, i.e., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.
Branching strategies, gated commits and source-controlled management
Programming and scripting in a UNIX environment (C++, Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, Shell, Scripts).
Programming and scripting in a Windows environment (PowerShell, etc.)
Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure
Software development (i.e., Java/JavaScript, C++, C#, or any modern object-oriented language)
Utilizing Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services
Atlassian tool suite: JIRA, Confluence, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, and Nexus repository experience
Security coding best practices, static and dynamic scanning tools, i.e., SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity
Deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes clusters