Software Developer, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations

The Digital Sector has a career opportunity for a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer supporting the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract s contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).  It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA’s operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA’s mission partners.

While this role is primarily remote one must live within commuting distance to Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD for on-site support. A Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment and within 14 days following the start date the employee must obtain their Security + certification.

Primary Responsibilities:

Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (Cloud Bees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (Open Shift), Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.

Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.

Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic (ELK) stack hosted in an AWS cloud environment.

Configure applications in accordance to meet DoD security standards, including DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).Develop, and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, availability, security posture, infrastructure utilization, and cloud spend across environments.

Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.

Implement cloud and infrastructure cost optimizations through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and Fin Ops best practices.

Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including certificate provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and uninterrupted service delivery.

Collaborate with Dev Ops, Security, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls, compliance monitoring, automation, and operational standards into CI/CD pipelines and production environments.

Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team.

Frequently communicate and collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure successful completion of project objectives.

Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit and/or other applicable tools.

Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.

Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor and mitigate technical risks.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.

Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.

Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and work in a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.

Experience developing software on a Linux platform.

Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.

Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly…