Vulnerability Assessment Program; AVAP) Engineer​/System Administrator

Application Vulnerability Assessment Program (AVAP) Engineer/System Administrator

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The Application Vulnerability Assessment Program (AVAP) Engineer/System Administrator is responsible for operating and securing the program's application security platforms, including Open Text Fortify, OWASP Dependency-Track, and any future application security tools, deployed in containerized and virtualized environments within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role manages Kubernetes-based infrastructure (AKS), container image pipelines, and automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD (Azure Dev Ops) to ensure resilient, scalable, and compliant deployments.

The engineer will perform system administration for both Windows and Linux environments, enforce security and compliance requirements aligned to federal standards, and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and metrics to support operational excellence. In addition, the role supports AVAP customers by troubleshooting platform issues to minimize downtime and ensure mission-critical vulnerability assessment services remain highly available.

• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure in Azure such as Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), etc.
• Operate and administer Kubernetes clusters (AKS) including node pools, networking, persistent volumes, ingress controllers, secrets management, access control, name spaces, etc.
• Manage system administration for both Windows and Linux environments
• Manage container image lifecycle and updates by pull hardened images (i.e., Iron Bank), scan for vulnerabilities, enforce least-privilege configurations, and publish to ACR.
• Perform regular server administration tasks including patching, user provisioning, system monitoring, and backup/restoration.
• Automate deployments of infrastructure and applications using Azure Dev Ops or equivalent CI/CD pipelines with ARM/Bicep/Terraform and Helm.
• Implement and enforce security/compliance controls aligned to NIST SP 800-53 and Zero Trust (i.e., key vault integration, secret management, TLS cert rotation).
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, playbooks, SOPs, and system/network architecture diagrams to ensure repeatability and continuous system documentation.
• Troubleshoot platform and pipeline issues across application, network, and infrastructure layers to minimize downtime for AVAP customers.
• Contribute to monitoring and metrics collection (availability, scan throughput, failure rates, license utilization) to support program-level reporting.

• Demonstrated expertise with Azure (preferred) and familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration (AKS), Helm, and containerization (Docker).
• Experience with system administration for both Windows and Linux environments
• Experience with system administration pertaining to SQL servers/databases, backup/restore, patching, etc.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM/Bicep, Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops).
• Demonstrated experience with Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM for infrastructure automation and immutability.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, compute, and…