DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Birmingham, AL/ Atlanta, GA/ Charlotte, NC Duration: 6 months (Possibility of Extension) Note: Hybrid working style (3x) Pay Range: $75/hr - $85/hr Primary Responsibilities: • Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines • Articulates business needs and translates them into technology solutions • Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service • Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines that facilitate cloud deployments, including automation of all infrastructure, services, and application build and deployment • Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices, including automated tests and infrastructure tests • Research new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness • Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback • Completes project work and contributes to the technical direction of various objectives • Automates operational activities and tasks • Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms • Builds tools that reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences • Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensures pipeline and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics, which enable Root Cause Analysis • Develops and tests - Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts, and establishes immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past • Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience Requirements: • High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology Preferences: • Six (6) years of relevant DevSecOps experience • AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification • Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications - OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) • Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies - Blue/Green, Canary Deployment • Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies • Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault • Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions. • Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines • Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, Ansible playbooks Skills and Competencies: • Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps • Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services • Proficient in the Python programming language • Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies • Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, and ServiceNow is a big plus