The Role
Designs and maintains secure Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud networking, security automation, monitoring, and observability for a government mission-planning system. Integrates Zero Trust controls, automated testing, and compliance requirements across environments. Troubleshoots incidents, performs root-cause analysis, and delivers fixes through Agile processes. The role requires collaboration, independent execution, and expertise with Linux, Bash, AWS, networking, PKI, DevSecOps tooling, and enterprise infrastructure.
Summary Generated by Built In
This is a remote position.
We are looking for a temporary Senior DevSecOps Engineer to design, build, and enhance the automation technologies that power a critical mission planning system for our government customer. This role is important to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable automated delivery of infrastructure and applications.
This is a temporary, hourly position with an estimated end date of September 30, 2027.
What you will do - Design, implement, and extend Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to support consistent, repeatable, and secure environments across development, testing, and production.
- Develop and maintain automated Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for rapid, secure, and error free deployments with no disruption in service to mission partners.
- Integrate security controls, compliance requirements, automated testing, and observability directly into build and deployment workflows.
- Align the IaC with DoD Zero Trust principles and support the upcoming Zero Trust security changes with new security automation.
- Identify opportunities to optimize builds, deployments, and operational process through automation and standardization.
- Engineer and automate network configurations, security groups, VPNs, load balancers, and firewalls within cloud and hybrid environments to ensure secure, resilient connectivity.
- Actively participate in the Agile development process by breaking epics into stories, adding acceptance criteria, estimating stories in points, and updating stories in Jira.
- Engineer automated monitoring, alerting, and system observability to improve system visibility, reliability, and resilience. Support the monitoring of all customer-facing environments during working hours.
- Respond to issues in all environments by providing troubleshooting expertise, repair actions, and root cause analysis. For root causes that can be fixed by DevSecOps, create an Epic, define the changes required, and work through the Agile development process to implement and deploy the fix.
- Passionate about automation
- Flexible with requirement changes
- Enthusiastic about adopting DevSecOps
- Able to work with minimal direction
- Thrives when collaborating with a small team
- RedHat Enterprise Linux operating systems
- Bash Scripting
- Public Key Infrastructure (certificate generation and management, mTLS communication)
- Networking and routing, especially in cloud environments and through DoD firewalls
- MongoDB, IBM DataPower, Identity and Access Management, Queueing systems
- AWS EC2, Networking, VPCs, etc.
- Git, Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Confluence, Jenkins
- Agile methodology
Requirements
- Security+ certification
- 5 or more years of experience in an engineering role (development or operations)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Benefits
This is a temporary, hourly position that is not eligible for benefits.
Skills Required
- Security+ certification
- At least 5 years of experience in an engineering role, including development or operations
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Familiarity with Bash scripting
- Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure, certificate generation and management, and mTLS communication
- Familiarity with networking and routing in cloud environments and through DoD firewalls
- Familiarity with MongoDB, IBM DataPower, Identity and Access Management, and queueing systems
- Familiarity with AWS EC2, AWS networking, and VPCs
- Familiarity with Git, GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Confluence
- Familiarity with Agile methodology
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