Sr. Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Sr Cloud Engineer to support the technology group for our federal client located in Washington, DC. The Sr Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer will perform a variety of tasks and activities that are broad in nature and concerned with application migration to AWS; implementation and maintenance of DevSecOps environments and AWS services; and full SDLC support.

*This position requires either U.S. Citizenship or be eligible to secure a Public Trust Clearance.

What You'll Do

Perform a variety of cloud engineering tasks and activities that are broad in nature and are concerned with the implementation and maintenance of AWS and DevSecOps services.

Provide support with migration of applications from on premises to AWS or Azure.

Coordinate technical solutions across various teams working closely with client management.

Identify the needs for build automation, designing, and implementing CI/CD solutions.

Create plug-and-play/reusable solutions and patterns for CI/CD pipelines.

Create, develop, and implement automation and system integration for various build platforms.

Build reusable CloudFormation or Terraform Scripts.

Engage with application teams assisting with configuration and scripting using Python and Lambda to automate activities for Infrastructure as Code.

Provide application development organizations with full SDLC support when needs arise.

Performing capacity planning to ensure that servers can handle an organization s workload without experiencing downtime or performance degradation.

Work with Cloud Architects and conducting a well-architected review process.

Recommend emerging technology cloud services.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Six years experience as a DevSecOps engineer supporting pipeline management for business applications that are deployed within AWS, with 10+ years total in information technology developing and deploying applications

Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps toolkits, including Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, CloudFormation, and/or comparable technologies.

Fluent in Python and a variety of programming languages, software, and systems

Experience with migrating applications to the Cloud (AWS and Azure)

Expertise using serverless, event-driven compute services, such as AWS Lambda, to address client needs.

Strong computing and scripting skills

Knowledge and implementation experience of network/cloud architectures

Comfortable with Agile practices

Experience with SaaS processes and products (Salesforce, New Relic, and Akamai)

Experience with Dynamic/Static (SonarQube) and Vulnerability (Invicti) Code Scanning.

Excellent writing and communication skills

Abilities

Ability to quickly understand cloud technologies and apply that knowledge to advance client transformation initiatives.

The ability to use technical skills for the design and implementation of various CI/CD patterns while abiding by industry standards and policies.

Nice to Haves

Experience with Content Delivery Networks and Drupal, a plus.

Experience with TerraForms

Experience using the Atlassian tools suite (Jira and Confluence)

Federal government agency work experience

Cloud and/or Agile Certifications

Active Federal Agency Clearance