DevSecOps Engineer

Location - Remote / Hybrid if local to Columbia, MD

Position Summary:

Sparksoft is a fast-growing woman-owned small business that provides innovative technical solutions to the federal government. We are seeking an DevSecOps Engineer who, under the supervision of the DevSecOps Manager, will collaborate with other scrum team members to develop and implement DevSecOps culture across the project team. The applicant will be working with the application team and will focus on AWS infrastructure and automation in compliance with security standards.

Responsibilities:

• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating, and maintaining all DevSecOps environment components.
• Creating and maintaining scripts for automating the deployment of tools to an AWS cloud environment.
• Aid in automating and streamlining processes and operations.
• Defining CI/CD recommended practices and processes.
• Control, plan, and direct all aspects of planned database updates and change propagation, ensuring that only validated and approved changes are implemented.
• Create and maintain release plans, documentation for version descriptions, implementation plans, and release notes, as applicable.
• Establishes best practices for building and operating highly reliable systems.
• Consults in system design to meet reliability and capacity requirements.
• Optimizes performance and reliability.
• Supports deployment of new applications and upgrades or patching of existing applications.
• Automates infrastructure and configuration management.
• Identifies potential security and reliability threats and provides solutions to mitigate them.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as code using Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform and Puppet.
• Collaborate with Agile scrum teams or tenants to establish and manage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide access management to Infrastructure and DevOps tools.
• Troubleshoot Infrastructure issues, collaborate with AWS support for resolution.
• Provide recommendations for enhancing system performance via analysis and potential modifications.
• Develop solution for Monitoring, Alerting, and Trending with AWS Cloudwatch, SNS, New Relic and Splunk etc.
• Be available to provide on-call support and incident response during mission-critical events.

Requirements

Required Skills/Experience:

• DevOps Experience in AWS Cloud environment using services like EC2, AWS S3, IAM, VPC Peering, RDS, NAT Gateway etc
• Experience with Git, GitHub, Bit Bucket versioning systems.
• Experience with CI/CD software delivery pipelines & tools for an enterprise scale system with a large developer base.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code artifacts.
• Experience with container-based application solutions.
• Able to write and run ad-hoc scripts (using Bash, Python, etc.) to automate DevOps processes
• Self-directed and self-motivated with the ability to take charge or play a supporting role.
• Clear written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to Monitor and manage system resources and application performance.
• Good communication skills, self-motivated and positive attitude to work independently in a team environment.

Desired:

• Experience / knowledge of CMS processes and standards.
• Experience Deploying Pega Applications in an AWS Environment.

Required:

• Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Candidates must have lived in the United States 3 out of the past 5 years.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher)
• 4+ years of experience

Sparksoft is a certified Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) SVC and DEV Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Small, Women-owned, Minority-owned (SWaM), and MBE/DBE/SBE consulting firm. With our focused mission "to ignite innovation, inspire transformation, and implement digital solutions for a healthier nation", we specialize in 6 specific digital health services: Test Automation, Cloud Services, DevOps Delivery, Cyber Security, Data Science, and Human-Centered Design. Since 2004, our exceptionally skilled people, proven leadership, and optimized processes all work together relentlessly to continuously push for more efficient solutions.

Sparksoft is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited under Federal, State, or local laws.

In accordance with the Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, Sparksoft Corporation is complying with the requirements that all employees assigned to a federal contract be vaccinated. Employees in need of an exemption from this policy due to a medical reason or because of a sincerely held religious belief must submit a physician's note for a medical accommodation or a religious request for accommodation to the human resources department to begin the interactive accommodation process as soon as possible. Accommodations will be granted where they do not cause Sparksoft Corporation undue hardship or pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others. New hires must show proof of vaccination.

If you need accommodation seeking employment with Sparksoft Corporation, please email [email protected] or call 410-424-7700. Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis.

At Sparksoft Corporation, we take security and protection of personal information very seriously. We will never ask you to send private personal information over email. Accordingly, we ask you to immediately contact our security team via email at [email protected] upon receiving a suspicious request.