Sr. Principal DevSecOps Engineer: HSV-2517

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

Position Description:

deciBel Research seeks a Senior DevSecOps engineer with eight 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 8 years of related experience or a Master's degree and 6 years of related experience, or PhD with 4 years 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
• Proficiency with DevSecOps practices, approaches, requirements, and iteration plans for a large-scale classified government system
• Proficiency in agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services
• Proficiency with the Atlassian tool suite: JIRA, Confluence, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, and Nexus repositories
• Experience working with airgap environments, classified cloud environments, and government customer networks
• Experience with ATO's, cybersecurity concepts and posture, and complex implementation of security configurations in cloud networks
• Experience with security coding standard best practices, static and dynamic scanning tools, such as SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity
• Proficiency 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
• Proficiency with deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes clusters
• Proficiency in briefing technical presentations to a government customer
• Experience leading complex diagnostics and implementations to quickly address issues and minimize impact to technical programs
• Experience with reverse engineering and troubleshooting of complex network architectures
• Ability to write and review software code (Java, Python, etc.)

Special Skills Desired:

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud orchestration technologies
• Comprehensive experience with Helm Charts and Ansible Technologies
• Comprehensive experience with configuration management tools, i.e., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, others
• Extensive experience with branching strategies, gated commits and source-controlled management
• Comprehensive experience in programming and scripting experience in a UNIX environment (C , Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, Shell, Scripts)
• Extensive programming and scripting experience in a Windows environment (PowerShell, etc.)
• Comprehensive experience with PaaS (Platform as a Service) infrastructure
• Comprehensive experience with software development (i.e., Java/JavaScript, C , C#, or any modern object-oriented language) and its life cycles

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