Senior Cloud DevSecOps Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Cloud DevSecOps Engineer with Security Clearance
What We’re Looking For:

If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and developing high-quality cloud-native software solutions in a collaborative engineering environment, then you will be excited about the Senior Cloud Dev Sec Ops  Engineer opportunity with Iridium. As a Senior Cloud Dev Sec Ops  Engineer, you will independently design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-based software applications and deployment infrastructure supporting mission-critical systems. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to implement secure, scalable, and automated cloud solutions, contribute to software architecture and deployment strategies, and collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver reliable software and infrastructure.

You will thrive in this position if you are a self-starter who enjoys solving difficult technical problems, continuously learning new technologies, and delivering high-quality solutions within an Agile development environment. This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).

What You’ll Do:

* Independently design, develop, test, enhance, and maintain cloud-native software applications and supporting cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms
* Design, implement, and optimize secure cloud architectures, application security controls, and deployment solutions supporting mission-critical applications.

* Build, maintain, and automate CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and containerized deployment environments
* Collaborate with software, systems, operations, cybersecurity, and infrastructure engineers to integrate cloud-native solutions throughout the software development lifecycle
* Support software integration, testing, troubleshooting, deployment, and sustainment activities
* Build, maintain, and improve software build environments, automated testing, and deployment processes as appropriate
* Participate in Agile/Scrum planning activities, sprint execution, backlog refinement, and software release planning
* Maintain accurate project status, technical documentation, and issue tracking using approved development tools
* Follow established engineering processes including configuration management, change control, risk management, software quality, and secure development practices
* Clearly communicate technical concepts, project status, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
* Identify opportunities to improve software quality, team processes, automation, and overall engineering efficiency
* Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing within the engineering team What You’ll Need to Succeed:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline

* 8+ years of professional software development experience Experience developing production-quality software throughout the full software development lifecycle

* Experience with AWS EKS/Kubernetes and automated container deployments

* Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools alternatives

* Experience with Vault/AWS Secrets Manager or other alternatives

* Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services
* Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab or alternatives) and deployment automation
* Experience developing scalable, maintainable, and well-tested software

* Experience using source control, issue tracking, and collaborative development tools

* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
* Experience working within Agile software development environments

* Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
* Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
* Be proactive in…