DevSecOps Engineer (Chantilly)

Devsecops Engineer

Northstrat is looking to hire a DevSecOps Engineer to join our distributed operations team, developing modular cloud technologies, optimized infrastructure, and adaptable CI / CD pipelines to enable viable remoting services in distributed environments for the Department of Defense. This role requires an understanding of Kubernetes, CI / CD tools, distributed cloud and on-prem technologies to ensure high quality software, dynamic data availability with integrity, to deliver on demand capability to our nation's warfighters. This role is in support of the U.S. Navy Spectral Program. The Spectral system is critical to the ability for our forces to fight and win in the increasingly sophisticated and complex cyber and electronic threats of our adversaries.

As a DevSecOps Engineer with Northstrat, you will bridge the gap between development and operation, ensuring seamless software code deployment for distributed environments. You will be responsible for building and deploying automation tools and distributed infrastructure that allows the delivery of high-quality software in production environments to run efficiently. You will work in a collaborative environment to promote continuous improvement within our Distributed Operations and Remoting Services team for Spectral. This team provides the powerful capability for Spectral capabilities to be used across multiple platforms, and to share information with remote sites dramatically expanding the power of the system. Our DevSecOps Engineers work within an Agile development team leveraging scaled agile practices to rapidly deliver incremental software solutions to our customers, focused on ideation, development, quality, deployment, and sustainment of high-quality software products. This position is for a highly motivated developer.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy scalable infrastructure as code across distributed environments to optimize performance.
• Automation and repeatable CI / CD for distributed environments.
• Infrastructure as code provisioning for operating in distributed environments with leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm charts to reduce downtime.
• Implement health and status remoting capabilities across distributed environments.
• Knowledge using VPNs, VPC peering, and service mesh technologies.
• Knowledgeable in employing security best practices and tools.
• Automate routine tasks leveraging scripting and programming tools like Python, Java, etc.
• Familiarity with cross domain solutions to enable continuous authority to field software packages.
• Communicate and collaborate within team constructs, cross team, paired programming.