Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

deciBel Research has an immediate opening for a Principal DevSecOps Engineer in Huntsville, AL.

Position Description:

deciBel Research seeks a DevSecOps engineer with five years' experience for the GMD Weapon System (GWS) Network and Infrastructure team on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Candidates must be able to work on an agile team and support an in-person, closed-area work environment. The successful candidate can communicate effectively, and is eager to expand their knowledge to continually improve.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience or a Master's degree and 3 years of related experience, or PhD with 1 year of experience.

Experience Requirements:

• A DOD 8140 IAT Level II certification (ex: Security + CE)
• Strong systems administrator experience in Windows and Linux
• Experience working with cloud technologies and platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, approaches, requirements, and iteration plans for a large-scale classified government system
• Familiarity with agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services
• Interest and aptitude in developing infrastructure as code scripts in Terraform and Helm to provision cloud resources
• Familiarity with configuring and maintaining DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools including best practices, automated builds and tests, quality gates, software quality, and CI tools such as Jenkins.
• Ability to write or review software code (Java, Python, etc.)

Special Skills Desired:

• Containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud orchestration technologies.
• Configuration management tools, i.e., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.
• Branching strategies, gated commits and source-controlled management
• Programming and scripting in a UNIX environment (C++, Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, Shell, Scripts).
• Programming and scripting in a Windows environment (PowerShell, etc.)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure
• Software development (i.e., Java/JavaScript, C++, C#, or any modern object-oriented language)
• Utilizing Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services
• Atlassian tool suite: JIRA, Confluence, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, and Nexus repository experience
• Security coding best practices, static and dynamic scanning tools, i.e., SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity
• Deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes clusters

Applicant selected must have an active Secret security clearance . Must be a U.S. Citizen.