Senior Cloud DevSecOps Engineer

Job Description Job Description SENIOR CLOUD DEVSECOPS ENGINEER

LOCATION: Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO (Very high chance of offsite support)

CLEARANCE LEVEL: TS/SCI w/CI POLY

Who YOU are:

As a Senior Cloud DevSecOps Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems, you:

• Are passionate about working on cutting-edge, high-profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
• Aren't satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
• Are insatiably curious you ask why, you explore, and you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea
• Are a strong self-performer that also flourishes in a team setting; and love the ability to work on multiple clients/projects simultaneously
• Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team
• Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and
• Open Source, to solve the problem at hand
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
• Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
• Are obsessed with automation, simplicity, and smooth-running systems

Who We Are:

• A 2023 "Top Work Places" recipient ( -it-systems/)
• A company committed to your training, technical experience growth, and well being
• Uniquely positioned and ready to expand, with your help, into more complex and technically challenging environments
• Built upon subject matter expertise supporting the Federal Government with a focus on Cloud Adoption, Cloud Security, Cloud Enabled Data Analytics, Cloud Native Application Development, and DevSecOps
• A small business with big partners such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft (Azure), and Google (Cloud Platform) and other technology partners;
  • Immuta
  • Databricks
  • GitLab
  • RedHat
• Multiple Prime contract holder (GSA, SITE III, JAIC DRAID, and NDE)
• Always a committed partner with our customers and laser-focused on their mission

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop automation and leverage DevSecOps tooling and practices to manage enterprise and mission IT infrastructure
• Develop and engineer solutions leveraging cloud services and modern frameworks
• Ensure system security requirements are satisfied via advanced automation and DevSecOps best practices
• Deploy and iterate system state with declarable infrastructure
• Administer user accounts and permissions within a least privileged framework
• Guide and participate with an operational team to sustain a multi-cloud mission-critical system
• Maintain and extend existing CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins servers
• Optimize pipeline performance
• Create new pipelines to support new infrastructure, capabilities, and project requirements.
• Update any related process documentation to match implemented changes.
• Participate in team code reviews, support unit, and integration testing.
• Contribute to project planning, offering insights into schedules and resource allocation.
• Provide solution designs to integrate tools into modern CI/CD pipelines:
• Guide the development teams to bring in new services and applications into the pipeline
• Helping troubleshoot as necessary
• Work through steps to automate installations of software components and products into the Architecture
  • DevSecOps Tool Integration:
    • Guide integration of various tools for the DevSecOps process (GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Python, Selenium, Artifactory, Fortify, OWASP, ZAProxy, Threadfix, Puppeteer, Terraform and/or CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.)

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient with bash scripting, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker/Podman (including Docker files), Git, Gitlab CI/CD, and python
• Knowledge of VMs, AWS, Kubernetes, and container configuration and operation
• Technical experience and knowledge of distributed storage networks, routing, and application messaging frameworks
• Demonstrated knowledge of analytical needs and requirements, query syntax, data flows, and traffic manipulation

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree with 8 to 12 years of directly related hands-on experience
• Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to achieve SCI and CI Poly
• Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or civilian Federal Government agencies experience
• Experience automating CI/CD pipelines proven over years of project work.
• Experience with Atlassian tool suite Jira, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Confluence
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Current technical certification in at least 1 cloud-related discipline, preferably AWS
• Technical experience and knowledge of distributed storage networks, routing, and application messaging frameworks
• Understanding of analytical needs and requirements, query syntax, data flows, and traffic manipulation

OTHER:

Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact include name and/or department, telephone, and e-mail address .

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. As a federal contractor, we are required to stay in compliance with Executive Order 14042 with the most up to date information provided at the following link ().

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