DevSecOps Engineer III

Location: Reston, VA

Department: 60004433 - AFS DevSecOps

Job Description:

As a DevSecOps Engineer III, you will design, build, and maintain a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize service delivery across production, QA, and development environments throughout the development lifecycle.

The work you'll do:

• Monitor, troubleshoot, maintain, and continuously improve building, packaging, and deployment processes.
• Implement automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, monitoring.
• Utilize a consistent DevOps approach to improve all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality across functions.

Here's what you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Certification to satisfy IAT Level 2 (e.g., Security+, GSEC, SSCP, or similar).
• 7+ years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a strong focus on infrastructure automation, scalability, and reliability across the software development lifecycle; and delivering DevSecOps services across multiple classified domains (e.g., IL5, IL6+).
• Knowledge of deployment/configuration management tools like Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, and/or Ansible.
• Experience utilizing version control tools like GIT, Bitbucket, SVN, and/or CVS.
• Experienced with network infrastructure, database, cloud and data center operations, and security protocols.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows OS.
• Understands AWS and other services.
• Experience with programming and scripting with languages like Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, SQL, or C++.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and other automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, and/or Prisma Cloud).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash), in a Linux environment (e.g., RHEL, Oracle Linux, or similar).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform and/or CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Experience with Tier 1-3 customer support and ticketing systems (e.g., GitLab Service Desk or ).
• Understanding of AWS capabilities (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, etc) and architecting secure cloud-based infrastructure and services.
• Hands-on experience configuring applications and systems to comply with Secure Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and Security Requirements Guide (SRG) by implementing security best practices.
• Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST, OpenSCAP).
• Ability to work independently and communicate with stakeholders across a global enterprise and cross-functional teams to drive project completion.

Security clearance:

• Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required.