DevSecOps Engineer w/Secret Clearance

TekSynap is a high-tech company providing information management and technology services to federal government customers. The company is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to lead continuous integration, deployment, monitoring, and secure software delivery practices, while helping development teams build and transition applications to containerized microservices. The role also involves deploying and sustaining a microservices factory using commercial and open-source solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the development of new software solutions and transition of existing solutions from monolithic structures to micro-service structure operating within hardened containers
• Work with application development teams to refactor or create solutions that leverage the DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline and tools. Instructs/guides teams through their solution development
• Deploys and sustain microservices factory utilizing COTS and open-source solutions

Requirements:

• Five (5) + years Agile experience
• Five (5) + years relevant experience in all area listed below
• Driving strategy and overseeing architecture of continuous integration and deployment and monitoring across technologies
• Demonstrated experience with defining Scrum Agile methodology for large scale clients
• Demonstrated experience in leading DevSecOps methodologies
• Demonstrated experience with implementing Test Driven Development (TDD) Methodologies
• Demonstrated experience with driving automated software development lifecycle toolchain
• Demonstrated experience with deployments in both on premise and cloud environments
• Experience serving as the engineer of complex technology implementations in a product-centric environment
• Experience with DevSecOps services using infrastructure as a service provider (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace/OpenStack)
• Experience using scripting or basic programming skills to solve problems
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., TFS, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, LVM)
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., AKS, Docker, Rocket, OpenShift, Rancher)
• Experience in the following technologies:
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• ArgoCD
• Jira
• GitHub
• SonarQube
• Fortify
• Nexus
• Falco
• Anchore
• OpenScap
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Helm
• Demonstrated experience supporting government agencies, customers, or contracts within federal environments. This includes the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), Federal Civil agencies, and military organizations
• Cloud Service Provider Certification (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure SA)
• DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification: Category IAT Level II (Security+)
• Bachelors Degreee
• Must possess IT-II / Tier 3 Secret clearance
• U.S. Citizen
• Secret IT-II Non-Critical security clearance, Tier 3 investigation
• Locations: National Capitol Region
• Type of environment: Remote with periodic support for meetings at Fort Belvoir (driving distance from National Capital Region)
• Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday – Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs
• Amount of Travel: Less than 10%
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Prior experience supporting the same or similar contract, with an in-depth understanding of the customer environment, requirements, and operational landscape, is highly desirable