Description
About Our Team
Our employees thrive in a culture that's fast-paced and ego-free, where innovation and collaboration are encouraged at every turn. We are an organization that provides federal agencies instant access to experienced and talented professionals who understand their unique challenges and know the most efficient ways to address them. We are continually investing in resources and talent, so we stay prepared with specialized teams in place who are experts in creating tailored technologies. Our solutions empower Federal organizations to grow, modernize, and succeed in a rapidly evolving landscape.
We value all voices and want to attract talent from all backgrounds. We're on the lookout for individuals who are passionate about technology and thrive in environments where problem-solving is approached with creativity and enthusiasm. If you're someone who enjoys continuously expanding your skill set while tackling real-world business problems, you'll feel right at home with us. Veterans and military spouses are especially encouraged to bring your unique and valuable experience to our team.
About The Role
We are seeking a cARMY/AWS DevSecOps Engineer to join our fast-growing IT-project based consulting business. We're looking for a well-rounded team member to design and configure cloud native platforms and services as well as establish, monitor, automate, optimize and maintain DevSecOps components such as the CI/CD pipelines. Our engineer will recommend and implement cloud native tools and solutions based on program requirements and expert knowledge of various on-premise, cloud-based, and hybrid DevSecOps tools and services. Strong working knowledge of both AWS GovCloud Engineering and DevSecOps principles is critical in this role.
In this Hybrid position, we're seeking talented and bright consultants who are passionate about technology and want to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ego-free culture while applying a creative approach to problem-solving. By joining our team, you’ll become a part of a fun and diverse team of talented and creative people who share the goal of using the latest technology to solve customer challenges. You’ll work with a team to help our client overcome their most difficult challenges in the cloud. Additionally, you’ll grow your skills in areas like cloud-based security, agile at scale, and multi-cloud architectures.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, analyze and recommend AWS cloud native services, including both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), to meet customer requirements.
- Design, implement, configure, deploy and monitor AWS cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudFormation, ECR, ECS, EKS, etc) and oversee system networking.
- Develop, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Deliver cloud native DevSecOps automation through Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, and other CI/CD tools.
- Implement cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail, integrate them into the customer’s DevOps processes, and optimize the cloud solution based on the results of such monitoring.
- Assist with cloud security remediation, ensuring alignment with compliance and regulatory standards.
- Work with third party software platforms to remediate non-compliances.
- Work with Solution Architects to validate architectural runway and incrementally evolve capabilities.
- Use the latest cloud technologies to look for ways to improve and automate processes.
- Build a cloud-based technical architecture that meets the needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities.
- Good understanding of DISA cloud computing security requirements guide (SRG) is a plus.
- Implement AWS services to improve security posture, in alignment with the customer’s DevSecOps processes.
- Perform on-premises to GovCloud migrations.
- Provide technical support on the AWS environment.
- Document aspects of the AWS environment.
- Ensure the high availability, resiliency, performance, business continuity and compliance capabilities of our cloud services.
- Lead efforts in automation, builds, deployment, and configuration management.
Qualifications
- Minimum five (5) years of experience as an AWS DevOps Engineer.
- Minimum one (1) year experience with AWS GovCloud.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience with CI/CD pipeline creation and management using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
- Minimum one (1) year of experience with IaC tools such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Proficiency in key AWS services such as Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Lambda, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and CloudFormation.
- Experience in designing and implementing solutions that ensure high availability and disaster recovery. This involves understanding the principles of fault tolerance, multi-AZ (Availability Zone) and multi-region deployment strategies.
- Experience building, operating, and maintaining compliant computing environments in AWS.
- Familiarity with AWS monitoring and management tools like Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS Systems Manager for tracking the performance and health of applications and services.
- Experience with containerization using Kubernetes or AWS ECS and EKS is a plus.
- Experience working with cloud security scanning tools and applying remediations.
- Experience working in cARMY cloud environment is a plus.
- Candidates will need to obtain Security Clearance of Public Trust once hired.
- AWS Certifications - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (preferred) and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
- Military experienced candidates are encouraged to apply.
- Secret Clearance or above preferred.
- Able to work onsite in Washington, DC 2-3 days a week.