Zolon Tech Inc. is a prime contractor supporting a 4-year initiative for software development and infrastructure optimization with the Department of Health and Human Services. They are seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to lead the design and implementation of secure DevSecOps solutions in AWS, focusing on automation and CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Build, test, and maintain infrastructure and tools to support continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
- Design, develop, and maintain automated container deployments using AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Create, configure, and maintain application-specific GitLab pipelines with integrated security practices
- Use tools such as GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, and Flux for automation and infrastructure as code
- Support AWS-based infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, and scaling cloud-native applications
- Integrate security requirements directly into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance with federal standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Security, Architecture, and Governance, to align with agency requirements
- Ensure design patterns and secure coding standards are in place for platform implementation
- Explore and apply emerging technologies to support AWS cloud migration and modernization efforts
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing containerized solutions using Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Strong hands-on experience in AWS and core cloud services (EC2, RDS, IAM, etc.)
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automation tools such as Ansible or CloudFormation
- Experience managing and monitoring CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, or similar tools
- Strong programming/scripting experience in Python, Java, or similar languages
- Knowledge of networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP)
- Experience with infrastructure capacity monitoring and automated scaling solutions
- Hands-on experience with Git version control
- Terraform certification
- Experience working on federal government contracts
- Familiarity with federal security standards (FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP)
- Exposure to observability and logging tools such as Splunk
- Experience with Flux and GitOps workflows
- Familiarity with RDBMS and cloud-native database solutions