Senior DevSecOps Engineer (CICD)

Accenture Federal Services•Tampa, FL

About The Position

AFS is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevSecOps Engineer (CICD) to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of creating, maintaining, and optimizing GitLab, and other pipelines. This role requires expertise in making pipelines scalable and reusable, building processes for various programming languages, and integrating security and compliance automation into the pipelines and a strong foundation in Linux engineering with advanced skills in containerization technologies. The candidate will have a proven track record in enhancing CI/CD processes and ensuring robust and secure software delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent experience, with a minimum of 3 years' of direct experience in CI/CD or DevSecOps related fields.
Extensive experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including creating, maintaining, and optimizing them.
Proficient in scripting and automation using languages such as Bash, Python, Go, or similar.
Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols such as, but not limited to: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.
An active TS/SCI is required

Nice To Haves

Possess and maintain relevant industry certifications related to CI/CD, DevOps, or security.
Familiarity with open-source tooling, contributing to open-source tools, ability to diagnose issues and create valuable bug reports.
Solid understanding of agile, kanban, and general DevSecOps principles.
Prior experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, vSphere).
Proficient in applying security and compliance standards within CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to program in multiple languages.

Responsibilities

Design, create, maintain, and optimize GitLab pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable CI/CD processes.
Develop scalable and reusable pipeline components to standardize and streamline the software development lifecycle.
Implement and manage build processes for various programming languages, ensuring consistency and efficiency across different projects.
Automate security and compliance checks within the CI/CD pipelines to ensure adherence to industry standards and regulations.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices into the software development lifecycle, especially as it pertains to creating, maintaining and optimizing pipelines.
Monitor pipeline performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to enhance speed and reliability.
Ensure pipelines are designed to support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) best practices.
Stay abreast of the latest CI/CD and DevSecOps technologies and recommend more efficient and secure solutions.
Working with tools like kustomize, helm, bash, etc. and manipulate data structures such as JSON, YAML, XML.
Building and optimizing container images and the automation of these builds.