Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Herndon, VA – 3 Days/Week

USC with Active Secret Clearance or Higher

Navitas Business Consulting is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join our DevSecOps team. In this role, you will work closely with developers, ops engineers, and infosec team members to ensure security is built into our development lifecycle from the start.

Responsibilities:

1. Performing infrastructure security reviews, threat modeling, and risk analysis for systems built on AWS and deployed via infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation.
2. Implementing and managing security controls within AWS including IAM, VPCs, security groups, WAF, encryption, audit logging, etc.
3. Performing static and dynamic analysis on source code using tools like Anchor/Grype, SonarQube, and Syft to catch security issues early.
4. Integrating security tools like secrets management, SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning into CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Enterprise and AWS Code Pipeline.
5. Building and configuring hardened Linux server images using tools like Packer that follow security best practices.
6. Implementing security monitoring and runtime protection for containers and services running on AWS ECS.
7. Helping define security requirements and compliance controls for regulated workloads built on AWS services like RDS Aurora.
8. Creating and managing infrastructure security policies as code via tools like Open Policy Agent.
9. Triaging and resolving security issues, working with developers and ops teams to implement fixes and improvements.
10. Keeping up to date with the latest cloud security best practices and threats.

Required Skills/Experience:

1. 5+ years’ experience in an information, cloud, or infrastructure security role.
2. Deep knowledge of AWS security services and features.
3. Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
4. Proficiency in Linux administration and security best practices.
5. Knowledge of container and orchestrator security (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
6. Experience with DevSecOps processes and toolchains like GitHub, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, etc.
7. Strong scripting/coding ability (Bash, Python, Go, etc.).
8. Knowledge of compliance frameworks like PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.

Navitas Business Consulting Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.