As a DevSecOps Architect, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 8-10 years of experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation. You will act as both technical visionary and be responsible for hands-on delivery. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation 
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers 
• Automating and improving development, testing, deployment, and release processes 
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results 
• Performing root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components. 
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ 
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended 
• Supporting 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  
• Documenting as-is state of the environment, performing a gap analysis, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  
• Leveraging virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems 
• Acting as an individual contributor and mentor team members 
• Engineering and implementing solutions and providing recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 
• Presenting regular status updates and providing cross-training to other DevOps team members. 

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• Bachelor’s Degree in an IT-related field and 10+ years of experience 
• 8+ years of experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) 
• 8+ years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• 8+ years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages 
• 8+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices within an Agile development environment 
• 3+ years of experience implementing containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes 
• 8+ years of experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible 
• 8+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI 
• Experience implementing and managing industry-standard DevSecOps tools across the SDLC 
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines 

Preferred:

• MS Degree in an IT-related field 
• Certifications: 
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional 
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert 
  • SAFe DevOps Certification 
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium) 
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, performing a gap analysis, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations 
• Experience with scripting in languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills