DevSecOps Cloud Systems Engineer

Overview

• Tier One Technologies is looking for a DevSecOps Cloud Systems Engineer to support our US Government client.
• This on-site contract-to-hire position will be located in Eagan, MN.
• SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.

Responsibilities

• Provide the expertise and design solutions based on CIO Architectures and Strategies architectural layouts for systems.
• Ensure the development teams, Endpoint teams, CISO teams, and others have secure, performant, and available cloud and on-premise platforms and services at their disposal.
• Provide technical assistance and advice on complex activities. Formulates / defines specifications, develops / modifies / maintains complex systems and subsystems, using vendor engineering releases and utilities for overall operational systems.
• Apply analytical techniques when gathering information from users, defining work problems, designing technology solutions, and developing procedures to resolve the problems.
• Develop complete specifications to enable computer programmers to prepare required programs and analyze methods of approach.
• Review task proposal requirements, gathers information, analyzes data, prepares project synopses, compares alternatives, prepares specifications, resolves processing problems, coordinates work with programmers and engineers, and orients users to new systems.
• Work with considerable freedom to make decisions on the techniques and approaches to be used.
• Prepare recommendations for system improvement for management and user consideration.
• Responsible for designing, building, testing, and maintaining the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for software development.
• Develop infrastructure design patterns and deploy infrastructure as a code with tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Design and lead implementation of solutions in Cloud Service Providers (CSP) like AWS, GCP and Azure and On-Prem.
• Utilize container registries such as Artifactory, GHCR, and CSP registries and support base container images.
• Support Kubernetes Clusters, including AKS, GKE, EKS, ROSA & Rancher.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to understand their needs and create a pipeline that meets their requirements in their key areas.
• Advise and oversee the process Improvement initiatives and IT requirements related to all aspect of application’s CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate security processes, such as vulnerability scanning, testing, and monitoring.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents and implement changes and act as escalation resource for Operations team.
• Mentor and transfer knowledge and less experienced team members.
• Document process and procedures.
• Prioritize and schedule projects/tasks based on the direction of Postal leadership.

Qualifications

• A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the degree is not in the applicable field, then four additional years of related experience is required.
• 8-12 years of experience in the Technology or Software Development preferred.
• Ability to write automations and workflows utilizing GitHub Actions to integrate different components of full CI/CD pipeline like Terraform, Trivy, Megalinter, and ServiceNow.
• Utilize tools like GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and other CI/CD technologies to develop and manage pipelines.
• Must be highly specialized in one or more phases of software systems development, systems integration, or network engineering.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance.
• Be able to pass a drug screening, criminal history, and credit checks.
• Must be a US Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card).
• Must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
• Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last five years. Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members.)