Sr Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV (Remote)

Overview:

The Cloud DevSecOps Engineer contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role includes developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role works closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines that support current DevSecOps best practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines

· Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions

· Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service

· Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment

· Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include automated tests and infrastructure tests

· Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness

· Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback

· Completes project work and contributes to the technical direction of various objectives

· Automates operational activities and tasks

· Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms

· Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences

· Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis

· Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past

· Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation

· Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

Preferences:

· Six (6) years of relevant DevSecOps experience.

· AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification.

· Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

· Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment

· Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies

· Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault

· Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.

· Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines.

· Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, ansible playbooks

Skills and Competencies:

· Excellent communication skills and willingness to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps

· Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, computing using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, and serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services

· Proficient in Python programming language.

· Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies.

· Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, and ServiceNow a big plus.