Senior DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

Vantor•Herndon, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer with on-premises and cloud expertise to support operations and management of its OpenShift platform. The role supports a private cloud environment and helps deliver solutions for intelligence analysts and other national security users. The engineer works with an operations team and geographically distributed Agile teams to maintain platform services and applications, automate infrastructure and delivery processes, and support security authorization requirements. This position requires U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance; applicants without the required clearance are ineligible. The successful candidate must be willing to obtain a CI polygraph. The work may require being in a SCIF up to 90% of the time, depending on mission needs, at one of the listed locations: Herndon, Virginia; Westminster, Colorado; or St. Louis, Missouri.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to obtain a CI polygraph.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 8 years of relevant technical experience, including platform operations and automation; additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
Demonstrated technical experience with DevSecOps and strong Linux experience.
Experience deploying and maintaining applications in a Kubernetes environment, preferably OpenShift.
Experience deploying and maintaining open-source and custom applications.
Ability to work effectively with geographically distributed operations and development teams.
Effective written and oral communication with customers and team members.
Ability to work in a SCIF up to 90% of the time as mission needs require, at Herndon, VA; Westminster, CO; or St. Louis, MO.

Nice To Haves

Experience sustaining hardware and software on IC or DoD networks.
Experience with distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, or IaaS/PaaS.
Experience developing and deploying web services.
Experience supporting open-source software in government environments.
Experience maintaining backend GIS platforms.
Experience with ICD 503 compliance.
Experience with big data technologies such as Elasticsearch, Accumulo, Spark, Hive, or Hadoop.
Experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises architectures.
Experience with data visualization, data management, data integration, user interfaces, or databases.
CompTIA Security+ or a comparable certification for privileged access.
Experience supporting military or intelligence missions, or familiarity with TCPED systems.

Responsibilities

Configure, monitor, and maintain the private cloud environment using OpenShift and Kubernetes.
Create and maintain automated, repeatable environment-creation and configuration tools using Infrastructure as Code platforms such as Ansible, Chef, or similar tools.
Create and maintain automated DevSecOps pipelines using open-source tools such as Argo CD and GitLab.
Monitor and troubleshoot issues across the technology stack, from bare metal through applications deployed in OpenShift.
Support ATO requirements through security-control implementation, patching, technical documentation, and remediation of findings.
Communicate and collaborate with multidisciplinary SAFe Agile teams, explaining technical concepts and ideas effectively.