DevSecOps Engineer - Mid

Chantilly, VA or Austin, TX

Engineering

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Job Title: DevSecOps Engineer - Mid
Job ID: 0501035
Date Posted: 11/14/2024
Location: Chantilly, VA or Austin, TX
Category: Engineering
Minimum Clearance to Start: Top Secret
Job Type: Full Time
Travel: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
 

Job Description:

GIESLER LLC is looking to hire a DevSecOps Engineer to join our distributed operations team, developing modular cloud technologies, optimized infrastructure, and adaptable CI/CD pipelines to enable viable remoting services in distributed environments for the Department of Defense. This role requires an understanding of Kubernetes, CI/CD tools, distributed cloud and on-prem technologies to ensure high quality software, dynamic data availability with integrity, to deliver on demand capability to our nation’s warfighters.

 

This role is in support of the U.S. Navy Spectral Program. Spectral is a seven-year program to provide both hardware and software solutions for our naval forces to fight and win in the increasingly sophisticated and complex range of cyber and electronic threats from our adversaries.

You will develop and deploy advanced cloud enabled combat systems that make up Spectral, leveraging the most advanced DevSecOps technologies available. Spectral is not only delivering ground-breaking capabilities to the warfighter today, but also building a modular distributed architecture that allows the system to rapidly evolve, deploy, and adapt to scale multi-echelon operations.

Creative solutioning and thinking outside the box to solve manual pain points for the warfighter through innovative engineering and rapid deployment of software running in production. Developing software technologies and leveraging first class tooling to generate high availability, low latency, fault tolerance, and scalability across multi-echelon distributed environments. Optimize deployment pipelines, leverage automated infrastructure as code, and enhance the overall performance and reliability of the distributed Spectral system.

We are looking to fill multiple positions with an immediate start date

 

Job Responsibilities:

As a DevSecOps Engineer with GIESLER LLC, you will bridge the gap between development and operation, ensuring seamless software code deployment for distributed environments. You will be responsible for building and deploying automation tools and distributed infrastructure that allows the delivery of high-quality software in production environments to run efficiently. You will work in a collaborative environment to promote continuous improvement within our Distributed Operations and Remoting Services team for Spectral. This team provides the powerful capability for Spectral capabilities to be used across multiple platforms, and to share information with remote sites dramatically expanding the power of the system. Our DevSecOps Engineers work within an Agile development team leveraging scaled agile practices to rapidly deliver incremental software solutions to our customer’s, focused on ideation, development, quality, deployment, and sustainment of high-quality software products. This position is for highly motivated developer, with remote and hybrid work, who will perform key responsibilities as:

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• Deploy scalable infrastructure as code across distributed environments to optimize performance.

• Automation and repeatable CI/CD for distributed environments.

• Infrastructure as code provisioning for operating in distributed environments with leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm charts to reduce downtime.

• Implement health and status remoting capabilities across distributed environments.

• Knowledge using VPNs, VPC peering, and service mesh technologies.

• Knowledgeable in employing security best practices and tools.

• Automate routine tasks leveraging scripting and programming tools like Python, Java, etc.

• Familiarity with cross domain solutions to enable continuous authority to field software packages.

• Communicate and collaborate within team constructs, cross team, paired programming.

 

Job Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Pre-employment drug screening

• An Active Top Secret Clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance

• 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Software Engineering or related fields

• Knowledge of scripting and programming languages (Python, Java, Bash, Go)

• Strong understanding of containerization technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Gitlab, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)

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Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, System Engineering, or a related field

 

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud/hybrid/on-prem environments

• Familiarity with database management (SQL)

• Experience with agile methodologies and DevSecOps practices

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices (AWS certifications)

• Knowledge with Kubernetes orchestration and deployments (Kubernetes Certified Administrator)

• Familiarity with CI/CD toolchains (Certified Jenkins Engineer, Gitlab)

• Knowledge with Terraform (Hashicorp certified Terraform Associate)

• Familiarity with security methodologies and tools (SonarQube, etc.)

• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and communication skills

• Security certifications (Sec+, CCNA, SSCP)
   

Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position. The proposed salary range for this position is: $62,800-$128,600

To apply:​

• Send a copy of your resume to patricia@gieslerllc.com.

• “Subject" line of the email should include your name and the Job ID for the position you are applying for.

 

 

Giesler, LLC is a private corporation established in the State of Georgia, is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. This commitment affirms Giesler LLC’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local law.