DevSecOps Engineer

Overview

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation.

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include

• Establish development tools and infrastructure for automation
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey 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

Required

• 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
• 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 docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 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

Preferred

• Certifications:
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate
• SAFe DevOps Certification
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks including Selenium
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent 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