DevSecOps Engineer

Peraton is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is located in Herndon, VA. The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton's Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA’s customers. 

As part of the modernization program, the DevSecOps Engineer will provide support to the ongoing implementation of the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that supports the program.  Experience with the core toolset utilized in the program’s pipeline or similar tools will allow you to operate at the appropriate level for this role.  An in-depth knowledge of tool interactions within the pipeline will allow to you support troubleshooting of issues.  The DevSecOps Engineer must be able to quickly learn business workflows, technical architecture, and dependent systems of the supported services.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Supports DevSecOps efforts to ensure delivery of a demand model leveraging continuous everything to reduce defects while increasing productivity and time-to-market.
• Assists with the establishment of CI/CD pipeline guidelines, standards, and strategies.
• Communicates with development teams to ensure adherence to CI/CD guidelines and standard DevSecOps processes.
• Under the direction of the DevSecOps SME, supports the technical planning, configuration, integration, verification, and validation of the pipeline toolchain in support of the technical complexities that lead to the successful integration of various DevSecOps practices as part of a CI/CD implementation.
• Implements automated methods that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including scripting, integration, and problem resolution related to the CI/CD pipeline toolchain.
• The DevSecOps Engineer reports to the System Team Manager.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience.
• At least two-years hands-on experience supporting DevOps/DevSecOps to reengineer and automate the software development process.
• Experience in the technical aspects of DevSecOps techniques, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment.
• Experience with at least some of the following technologies and techniques:
• Distributed source control (Git).
• Dependency Management tools such as Maven, Gradle.
• Leading CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TFS.
• The concept of Pipeline as Code scripting technologies.
• Industry standard Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools such as SonarQube, Nexus IQ Server, Fortify.
• Hands on experience integrating SCA tools into CI/CD pipeline.
• Binary Repository tools such a Nexus Repository for pulling dependencies and publishing build artifacts (Snapshots / Releases).
• Familiarity with Open Source tools for test automation such as Selenium.
• Must have a current Secret (or higher) clearance (interim clearances are acceptable).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a large software development program using Agile (preferably SAFe) development methodology.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps for a Cloud-based system on a modernization program.
• Knowledge of Cloud Service Platforms such as AWS, Azure.
• Experience with container orchestration using tools such as Docker-compose.
• Experience with Container Management Platforms such as OpenShift.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with Continuous Monitoring tools such as E L/F K Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluntd, Kibana).

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.