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Devsecops Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA (onsite- Mon-Fri)
Duration: Long term contract
Job Description:
We are looking for a skilled DevSecOps Engineer with strong experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes-based deployments, CI/CD automation, and security integration within enterprise platforms.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, Jenkins, and ArgoCD-based GitOps deployments. The engineer will be responsible for building, automating, securing, and supporting scalable cloud-native environments across multiple tenant platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitOps practices with ArgoCD.
- Manage and support Kubernetes (EKS) environments, namespaces, ingress controllers, and Helm deployments.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads, and deployment pipelines.
- Support AWS services including EKS, IAM, ECR, RDS Aurora, S3, CloudWatch, WAF, GuardDuty, Cognito, and OpenSearch.
- Configure monitoring, logging, vulnerability scanning, and observability solutions.
- Collaborate with development, platform, and architecture teams to streamline deployments and operational processes.
- Manage secrets, access control, and identity integrations using Keycloak, Cognito, Kubernetes Secrets, and AWS Secrets Manager.
- Troubleshoot deployment, networking, and infrastructure issues across environments.
Required Skills
- AWS Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Terraform
- Helm & Kustomize
- Jenkins CI/CD
- ArgoCD / GitOps
- Docker & Amazon ECR
- Git / GitLab
- PostgreSQL / Aurora
- Security & Vulnerability Scanning (SonarQube, Trivy, WAF, GuardDuty)
- Monitoring & Logging (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Prometheus)
Preferred Skills
- Node.js / Nx Monorepo environments
- Java 17 / Maven
- Python / Poetry
- Redis / Neo4j
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- DevSecOps best practices in enterprise environments
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RighttoWorkPoster.pdf