Remote DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer (Remote)

• Location: Remote
• Job Type: W2 Contract

Background/Need:

The Enterprise DevSecOps engineers main responsibilities will be to design evaluate plan implement the functional and nonfunctional requirements of a secure enterprise DevSecOps platform of services. This engineer will help build our platforms DevSecOps infrastructure(s) as well as bring automation and efficiency to both existing and new use cases. The role requires a focus across all components within a DevSecOps system to develop and communicate standards and best practices both from a service perspective as well as a security perspective.

Responsibilities:

510 years of experience in the information technology field or technical work environment with a strong focus on DevSecOps design implementation operational support and best practices for onprem and cloud infrastructure.
Degree in related field (Eg. computer science mathematics economics engineering physics neuroscience operations research etc.) Additional infield experience considered in lieu of formal degree.
Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps commercial and opensource automation tools and products along with knowledge of their optimal use cases.
Strong understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems.
Experience performing process improvements and applying tools and technologies to automate activities for operational and financial value.
Familiarity with scripting & programming languages such as Python Java bash C/C Go etc.
Experience partnering with developer communities IT support staff and project managers to drive DevSecOps platform initiatives project milestone completions and provide technical advice.
Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements
Strong communication skills to clearly express technical information to lead discussions and to guide a group to smart decisions.
Strong emotional intelligence as it relates to both self and social awareness as well as application support to change management.
Strong background working within and across teams focused on promoting customer service.
Possess excellent customer interfacing skills to handle client inquiries and issues while actively contributing to the development and maintenance of understandable userfriendly documentation.
Comfortable with authoring commercially effective documentation used by fellow IT administrators developers and a technically advanced user community.
Understanding of information security frameworks and standards within the government/defense sector.
Detailed experience working to secure platforms and products working across design development and the operations to ensure security best practices are applied.
Foster an inclusive working environment

Must Have:

DevOps Tooling (Git GitHub GitLab Artifactory Jenkins Satellite Quay Landscape) Advanced
Linux / Windows administration Intermediate
Exposure to automation tools (BigFix Terraform Ansible Puppet Chef CfEngine) Advanced
Security Standards best practices scanning tools (Nessus Forte SonarQube) Advanced
Programming/scripting languages (Python bash Perl Go) Intermediate

Nice to Have:

Containers & Orchestration (OpenShift Docker Kubernetes) Intermediate
Cloud Services (AWS & Azure) Intermediate
Infrastructure & Network awareness Intermediate
Logging and Monitoring (SolarWinds ELK Splunk Prometheus Datadog) Intermediate
Innovation & thought leadership Intermediate
Agile methodology awareness (Jira Scrum/Kanban) Intermediate
Enterprise focus Intermediate

Education & Experience: Bachelors plus 10 Years of relevant work experience.

Work Authorization: US Citizensh is required due to the nature of the work.

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.