DevSecOps Engineer

Overview

The AI Strike team is creating mission critical AI Applications. As a DevSecOps Engineer you will work with AI Engineers, Application Engineers, and Data Scientist to make the AI Applications we are creating Production ready. This includes application security hardening, creating build and deployment automation using Terraform, Helm Charts, and other build and deployment automation tools. We are creating high impact applications that are helping drive the organization and mission.

Contributions

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results
• Ensure that 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 software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Masters degree and 3 years of experience OR Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience OR no degree and 9 years of experience
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with development experience in an Agile environment
• 3 Years of Experience implementing containerized solutions utilizing Kubernetes and enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift, Docker, or Podman 
• 3 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
• 3 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI
• 3 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• Multiple industry certifications related to cloud, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, or Microsoft technologies (five (5) or more preferred). 

Preferred:

• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks including Selenium
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $80,000 to $175,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.