Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Steampunk • McLean, VA

4d • $150,000 - $185,000

About The Position

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with Steampunk’s growing DevSecOps practice to deliver features supporting cloud and application development. The role calls for experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices, including build and release management, CI/CD, and process automation. You will contribute as an individual engineer, mentor team members, implement solutions, and recommend continuous improvements to services.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 10 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of experience with one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 5 years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• 5 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.
• 5 years of application DevSecOps experience, including development experience in an Agile environment.
• 5 years of experience implementing Docker containers and using platforms such as Kubernetes.
• 5 years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration.
• 5 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or TravisCI.
• 5 years of experience integrating deployments with industry-standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration.
• Experience integrating automated performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree and 8 years of experience.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional certification.
• Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
• SAFe DevOps Certification.
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks, including Selenium.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Experience documenting an environment's as-is state, performing gap analysis, and producing artifacts articulating options and recommendations.
• Experience scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby.
• Experience with automation tools including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including team lead and people management responsibilities such as mentoring, coaching, or supervising staff.

Responsibilities

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation.
• Understand stakeholder needs and convey them to developers.
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results.
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis, and develop software updates and fixes.
• Work with software developers and engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended.
• Support enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code, including automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, monitoring, and testing such as CI/CD.
• Document the as-is state of environments, perform gap analyses, and produce artifacts outlining options and recommendations.
• Use virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems.
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor team members.
• Engineer and implement solutions and recommend continuous improvements to services.
• Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other DevOps team members.

Benefits

• Steampunk provides additional employee benefits as part of its total compensation package; specific benefits are not detailed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior