Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Amentum is now hiring an Senior DevSecOps Engineer in support of the Field, Lab and Air Integration / Experimentation / Modeling and Risk Reduction (FLAIR) office at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD and other locations. This project will provide the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Research (C5ISR) Center services to include programmatic/business management services, engineering support services, field engineering, laboratory, logistics, and acquisition / administrative support services to augment FLAIR core Government personnel and turn-key solutions to support the missions of FLAIR and its associated Managers and customers. This support will be conducted in close coordination with Government project leads within FLAIR.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in a company's Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) areas of incident response, vulnerability scanning and management, problem management, certificate management, penetration testing, password policy management, data analysis of network security, remediation patching coordination, and compliance efforts.

• Select and implement the appropriate automated application security testing tools, making users aware of how to best use application security features.

• Collaborate with team members to develop an automated security framework for strong deployment tools and processes, leveraging various scripting languages and open source solutions.

• Recommend automation improvements to replace manual tasks for network infrastructure provisions and security operational processes.

• Gather requirements, design and implement solutions, manage technical operations, and triage and fix network or security operational issues.

• Configure end-user and administration access that adheres to access control guidelines.

• Perform network or security analysis and troubleshooting; diagnose root cause analysis, using monitoring tools and system analytics; and apply system patches to DevOps tooling.

• Provide technical support and guidance to users and other DevOps Engineers, answer technical questions, and resolve issues within network and security domains.

• Update security procedures and create and maintain operations runbooks to report procedures and operations, so team members won't re-encounter known issues. Set up, conduct risk assessment, monitor, and maintain proxy servers, systems, and firewalls.

• Perform application penetration testing and manual security code reviews.

• Coordinate change requests with relevant teams and end users, providing status and schedule updates to them.

• Research and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current technology trends and best practices for cloud site reliability engineering.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree.

• Minimum of 9 years of working experience.  Will accept 5 years of additional experience in lieu of degree.

• Must have an Active TOP SECRET/SCI US Government Clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to maintain a TOP SECRET/SCI Clearance. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting C5ISR DEVCOM programs.

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