DevSecOps Engineer (Operational)

Essential Functions:

• Assist the Government in planning and overseeing cloud efforts on a large scale.
• Technical advisor on pros and cons of potential approaches.
• Consult with government users and gather requirements for Cloud implementations.
• Palo Alto Conf/Admin, other firewall brands are fine as long as the candidate have a strong understanding of configuration.
• Architect and create secure, modern, and repeatable security solutions for the custom cloud marketplace, following industry best practices, such as DevSecOps, and that map to DoD Security Standards.
• Utilize AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) for creating cloud templates.
• Analyze customer’s business needs and help customer translate into technical requirements.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise on infrastructure considerations in IT System Engineering with an emphasis on modern, cloud services and application portability.

• Expertise in DevSecOps, release management activities, deployment procedures, and security practices in various system environments.

• Assist in the review, analysis, and documentation of market research materials, and make recommendations on how that analysis should inform the project direction.
• Review, draft, and update the technical portions of various documents, including acquisition, other program document, and user support documents.
• Draft, edit, and consolidate briefings and other informational documents
• Deep knowledge of the RMF process and the ability to STIG an application.
• Present technical information in a concise manner that can be understood by non-engineers and gives decision-makers the context and key points necessary to make necessary decisions.
• Prepare white papers and informational memoranda on technical areas of interest, such as application architecture, modern software practices and tools, etc.
• Support analysis and preparatory activities for migration of applications to a new cloud environment.
• Develop technical documentation.
• Analyze and translate requirements into technical and functional specifications.
• Leading design and development activities, and providing technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• Incorporating new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations.
• Ensuring that all control gates are met on schedule.
• Interfacing with the government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Briefings to the government as well as other key stakeholders.
• Responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the systems engineering area of responsibility.
• Assist other team members in other specialties as needed to accomplish the overall mission.#

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years related experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree required in a relevant field. Master’s Degree in a relevant field preferred
• Deep systems engineering comprehension of the state of the art in large scale cloud implementation and migrations in cloud environments, the infrastructure considerations, and the respective best practices and challenges.
• Powerful analytical and problem solving skills – including the ability to develop solutions in new and creative ways.
• Ability to combine knowledge and expertise from diverse areas in new/unique ways to solve problems.
• Strong ability to lead disparate teams from different groups form consensus
• GitHub, SonarQube, Jenkins, JIRA, Docker.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ability to brief senior executives with little notice.
• Comfortable in a fast paced/dynamic environment.
• Ability to function in an action officer type role when needed.
• Must be a US Citizen, hold a current DoD Secret Clearance, and have the ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance.
• AWS/Azure, Google Certifications, Sec + CISSP (Preferred)

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