Senior Devsecops Engineer

About the Team

STR’s Intelligence division researches, develops, and deploys advanced analytics and machine learning-based solutions to solve challenging problems in support of national security and the intelligence community. Our team consists of passionate and motivated individuals with advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, mathematics, and data science, who are seeking opportunities to use their technical knowledge and creativity to tackle some of the hardest problems that our customers face. Our projects span multiple different data modalities and incorporate advanced algorithms, deep learning, and statistical techniques to uncover patterns in social media, structured and unstructured text, time series, geospatial, and imagery data, and must operate under challenging constraints not typically found in the commercial world. The tools and technologies we develop have real world impact and are used by analysts to extract and enrich intelligence information around the globe.

The Role:

In the Senior DevSecOps Engineer role, you will design, build, and operate secure workflows that deliver accredited software systems into classified cloud-based environments.  You will work collaboratively with other software engineers, machine learning researchers, and statisticians to turn code into reliably deployable, compliant releases. You will architect and implement CI/CD workflows for accelerating development and ensuring secure software systems. You will guide the implementation of software testing to ensure system function and performance. You will have the option to work from either STR’s Woburn, MA, or Arlington, VA, office; applicants should expect to work primarily onsite.

Who You Are:

• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government
• BS, MS, or PhD in a related field
• 3-5+ years in DevSecOps or platform engineering and experience owning CI/CD pipelines
• Proficient in one or more high level programming language such as Python or Go
• Strong scripting (Python/Bash/YAML) and automation mindset; excellent documentation habits
• Proficient with workflow management tools: e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab-CI, Airflow, Kubernetes
• Proficient with IaC tools: e.g. Argo CD, Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation
• Experience with AWS cloud services: e.g. EC2, RDS, Redshift

Even Better:

• Experience working with large datasets and familiarity with big data infrastructure, such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, or MapReduce
• Experienced with data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes, and relational databases
• Experience working in a large cross-functional team
• Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, vulnerability management, and building evidence toward ATO
• Comptia Security+ and/or cloud certification(s)
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $134,000 - $184,000

The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.