At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.
We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.
Credence has an immediate need for a DevSecOps Engineer to support the Defense Logistics Agency, API Gateway Program. The Senior DevSecOps Engineer will be one of the technical experts for Ansible ecosystem & DevOps practices within the organization, providing solutions and technical implementation aligned with the automation program objectives. This team member will develop Ansible artifacts, troubleshoot issues and work on implementing configuration management roadmap of the organization.
Responsibilities
- Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
- Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules
- Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks
- Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
- Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds.
- Generate auto start/stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible.
- Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate).
- Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment.
- Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage
- Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions.
- AWS GovCloud Architecture & Management: Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and compliant AWS GovCloud environments for DoD applications.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to DoD cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP, Zero Trust). Implement STIGs, security baselines, and automated security scanning (SAST/DAST).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Deploy and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters in AWS GovCloud, leveraging services like Amazon EKS, ECS
Requirements
- Ability to obtain a security clearance is required.
- At least four (4) years of experience using Ansible for DevOps Development with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.
- Strong experience with Ansible Playbook development and Ansible CLI deployment.
- Advanced-level scripting in Bash.
- Log shipping application logs to Splunk and AWS Cloud watch
- Expert level RHEL 8, using cloud-init for provisioning.
- At least 3 years of experience administrating Kubernetes and creating deployments yaml (any flavor, but prefer EKS)
- Excellent working knowledge of Jenkins, Git
- Expertise implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline in Jenkins using Declarative Pipeline language
- Knowledge required to build and manage Dockerfile to be deployed on Kubernetes deployments.
- Experienced with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment.
- Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment
Top Skills
What We Do
Credence provides innovative technology, health, international development, engineering, and management solutions to support mission-critical programs for Federal government customers. We are one of the nation’s largest privately held government contractors.
Our ability to perform exceptionally to implement new solutions, efficiencies, and savings across 220 U.S. Government programs is due to our obsession with exceeding customer expectations and our emphasis on employee wellbeing—best exemplified by our corporate philosophy: “One Measure of Success. Yours.”
WHY WORK WITH CREDENCE? We are consistently rated as a Top Workplace and are proud to be one of the fastest growing privately held firms in the U.S. over the last decade.
Credence treats each customer, teaming partner, and employee as a trusted partner whom we serve. We ensure successful outcomes by focusing on the measure of success that we consider to be most important—Yours.
WHY WORK FOR CREDENCE? We are a diverse, enthusiastic team of professionals who are dedicated to providing exceptional service to our customers. Our culture is focused on employee empowerment, recognition, and reward, and each person is encouraged to take initiative and strive to reach their greatest potential.
HOW CREDENCE GIVES BACK: We believe in giving back to the communities in which we live and work through corporate charitable events, support for employee volunteering, and a 100% corporate match for employee charitable giving.
