DevSecOps Engineer; Kubernetes

Position Description

Valiant Solutions is seeking a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer
to join our rapidly growing and innovative cybersecurity team!

This is your opportunity to join a smart Dev Sec Ops  team delivering cutting-edge solutions to a fantastic Government client. A solid foundation of Dev Ops / SRE principles, experience with Kubernetes, and experience securing cloud environments are key for this challenging and rewarding role. You will join a team of talented Dev Sec Ops  engineers who are working hard to engineer the future of Cloud and Container security for our federal Government client.

We have the tools to succeed and are looking for individuals with a sharp engineering mind to help shape and harden new and existing architectures.

Named one of the Best Places to Work in the Washington DC area for 11 consecutive years
, Valiant is proud of our employee-centric culture and commitment to excellence. If you are interested in learning more about Valiant and this opportunity, we invite you to apply now!

This Dev Sec Ops  team is responsible for developing various security and infrastructure solutions in the cloud and on-premise data centers. We are seeking a motivated individual as this team is constantly evolving and is currently evolving cloud security solutions in AWS. To be successful in this role, you’ll be passionate about what you do and will be able to work autonomously to engineer your way out of problems.

The successful candidate will have proven experience in automating manual IT infrastructure and security processes and will have a proven track record of learning new technologies.

This position allows for 100% remote work. Remote work requires a high level of trust in our employees, and we strictly adhere to the details outlined in our Remote Work Policy below.

• 5+ years IT Experience
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related degree. Can substitute 3 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ years of experience working in Kubernetes environments. This experience must include engineering deployment strategies, experience hardening deployments, and hardening the control plane and worker nodes. Also, a key skill is to understand how to implement observability and altering into new and existing clusters.
• 2+ years of experience developing in containerized environments
• 2+ years of experience presenting the technical solutions you develop to other teams and organizing technical dependencies involving other teams.
• 4+ years of experience in Dev Ops or Dev Sec Ops  roles. The successful candidate will have worked closely with application or infrastructure teams as a Dev Ops or Dev Sec Ops  engineer. You must have experience developing with Ansible and Terraform.
• 4+ years of Cloud Platform and Security Engineering. The successful candidate will have experience working with one or more cloud platforms (AWS experience preferred) to develop secure solutions that scale. This includes but is not limited to, AWS Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes-related services, cloud network and cloud services, and a deep understanding of how to secure and observe those services.
• 2+ years of Security Engineering
  . The successful candidate will have proven experience building and reviewing architectures, focusing on security best practices. An understanding of reading and implementing security y controls in new and existing architectures, coupled with the ability to communicate successfully with the greater security organization, is required.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and service mesh orchestration: The successful candidate must have experience with Kubernetes in production environments. You will need to be familiar with best practices in deploying Kubernetes and have a firm grasp on the challenges and solutions around securing a cluster. Experience with service mesh orchestration as a means to inject security ( Istio, Linkerd, etc ) is a key piece of our projects.
• Strong Dev Sec Ops  practices: The successful candidate will be experienced with injecting security hardening and best practices…