Referral Eligible
Summary:
The DevSecOps Engineer is part of a skilled IT team that will work independently and collectively with other engineers to identify and test potential enhancements and resolve technical issues with taking prototypes through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) into an air-gapped customer enclave.
Essential Functions:
- Perform software integration tasks, including systems analysis, requirements gathering, scripting, testing, and documentation. Engage directly with customer requirements sessions, and user acceptance testing, and turn their feedback into tracked issues and delivered fixes. Use source code control to track and safeguard changes and apply software updates.
- Design, develop, and maintain tools that conduct document ingestion, normalize and segment their structure, extract classification markings, score similarity, and index results into a search engine with document-level access control. Devise solutions with minimal prior documentation.
- Develop and maintain tools that provide content conversion, user and group mapping, and permission-preserving migration. Validate migrations end to end and at scale.
- Perform infrastructure management, including designing and implementing scalable deployments across multiple networks using DevSecOps practices. Package and deploy applications with Helm and Kubernetes, and deliver the same applications as container images for a Podman air-gap delivery path: offline dependency closures, hardened base images, SBOMs, image signing, and CVE remediation. Document infrastructure creation, management, and decommissioning procedures.
- Uphold the security posture of tools that handle classified data, fail-closed access control, mTLS and PKI-based identity, tamper-evident audit logging, and test suites.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications:
Required Qualifications and Skills include:
- Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration, including networking, using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes.
- Experience delivering software into air-gapped or disconnected environments.
- Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript on Node.js and in Java with Maven. Comfort with Shell scripting.
- Experience with document parsing and data conversion: DOCX, XLSX, PDF, XML, JSON, and regular expressions, including repairing malformed input.
- Experience with a search engine such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including index provisioning and role-based or document-level security.
- Linux system administration knowledge: command line, service management, and software configuration within virtual machine constraints.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Professional manner and a strong ethical code.
- Exceptional time management and ability to multitask.
- Collaborate across the organization on a variety of company contracts/projects, bringing your skills to new challenges and opportunities
Preferred Qualifications and Skills include:
- Experience developing Atlassian Confluence Data Center plugins (P2/OSGi, Spring, Atlassian SDK), including support for multiple Confluence versions.
- Experience administering or extending MediaWiki: configuration, PHP extensions, and skin theming.
- Experience with classification marking standards and handling of classified or controlled documents.
- Experience with OCR and document layout analysis tools such as Docling or Tesseract, and with evaluating them for constrained environments.
- Experience with PKI, mTLS, step-ca, Keycloak, or OAuth2 proxies for per-user identity in Kubernetes.
- Experience profiling and tuning applications at scale (hundreds of thousands of documents, thousands of wiki spaces).
- Familiarity with Python and PowerShell.
Education/Experience include:
- A bachelor’s degree with 6 years of experience in performing similar or related work is required. Four years of experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. Two years' experience may be substituted for a degree.
Working Conditions:
- Must be able to work 9-5 PM EST Monday-Friday as these are the customer’s core support hours.
- Possible prolonged periods of stationary work.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: Full-time position
Travel: Less than 5%
Clearance: Top Secret SCI clearance required for this role.
Equal Opportunity Employer – Disabled/Veteran
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
Zapata Technology, Inc. provides reasonable accommodation to applicants who are veterans or who have disabilities and are unable to fully use our company application system. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify Christina Hall, EEO Coordinator at [email protected]
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience performing similar or related work
- Four years of relevant experience may substitute for a bachelor's degree
- Two years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree
- Knowledge of containerization, container orchestration, and networking using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
- Experience delivering software into air-gapped or disconnected environments
- Proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript on Node.js and Java with Maven
- Comfort with Shell scripting
- Experience with document parsing and data conversion involving DOCX, XLSX, PDF, XML, JSON, and regular expressions, including malformed input repair
- Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including index provisioning and role-based or document-level security
- Linux system administration knowledge, including command-line operations, service management, and software configuration in virtual machines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Professional manner and strong ethical code
- Exceptional time management and ability to multitask
- Ability to collaborate across organizations, contracts, and projects
- Experience developing Atlassian Confluence Data Center plugins using P2/OSGi, Spring, and Atlassian SDK
- Experience supporting multiple Confluence versions
- Experience administering or extending MediaWiki, including configuration, PHP extensions, and skin theming
- Experience with classification marking standards and classified or controlled documents
- Experience with OCR and document layout analysis tools such as Docling or Tesseract
- Experience with PKI, mTLS, step-ca, Keycloak, or OAuth2 proxies for per-user Kubernetes identity
- Experience profiling and tuning applications at scale
- Familiarity with Python and PowerShell
- Top Secret/SCI security clearance
What We Do
Zapata Technology is a veteran-owned defense technology company that develops and manages mission-critical technology and intelligence systems for U.S. military and federal customers. Its work spans AI and machine learning, data analytics, cybersecurity, software engineering, cloud/DevSecOps, and systems integration, including proprietary tools supporting Department of Defense programs. The company serves the U.S. Army, USASOC, Intelligence Community, and Marine Corps across multiple continents.
