100% Remote 

Per Client Requirements: US Citizenship Required

As part of the Security Operations Team, the Principal DevOps Engineer combines an understanding of both engineering and coding.

• This role involves creating and implementing systems software, analyzing data to improve existing ones, increasing productivity in the development pipeline in support of a fully functional 24x7 Security Operations Center and the infrastructure used to monitor State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) government networks.
• This role requires a strong computer science background and a DevOps mindset.

The Client makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation.

• They are a community-driven nonprofit responsible for industry leading best practices for securing IT systems and data.
• They lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats.

Responsibilities:

• Make recommendations to OSS executive leadership on product capabilities, direction, investments, and divestments of technologies, products, and services
• Create and continually improve CI/CD automation and pipelines
• Identify, design, develop, and document solutions for fault tolerance, performance, capacity, and configuration management for multiple products and services
• Onboarding new data sources into Splunk, analyzing the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data
• Oversee the deployment of all changes to production systems
• Design, develop, and implement documentation or tools appropriate to the maintenance of application platforms
• Stay current on technology trends and work with various stakeholders and teams to understand our users’ needs and determine how to deliver the most value to customers
• Design and implement a security framework covering infrastructure and applications, processes, and compliance with appropriate regulations and standards
• Provide guidance, training, and support to team members as needed
• Serve as the most senior technical expert on the deployed Development and Data Pipelines
• Participate in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) efforts through the use of unit testing and integration testing and scheduled rollout of new/updated applications
• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field*
• 8+ years’ experience with DevOps technologies, cloud-based provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• 8+ years’ experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
• 8+ years’ experience using Linux operating systems
• 5+ years' experience with SPLUNK
• Ability to analyze how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Fundamental understanding of agile principles and methodologies (Agile SDLC)
• Proficiency with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Proficiency writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using both Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience using modern containerization software including Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes
• Ability to communicate effectively with a remote team
• The position is open to U.S. Citizens and requires a favorably adjudicated DHS Fitness Review for Public Trust Positions**
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

*Additional years of relevant experience or a combination of an Associate’s degree or equivalent and relevant experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree.

Posted On: Thursday, November 16, 2023