Staff / Sr Staff DevSecOps Engineer

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.

Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. SciTec cannot sponsor or assume sponsorship of employee work visas of any type. Further, U.S. citizenship is a requirement to obtain and keep a security clearance. Applicants that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

SciTec has immediate opportunities for experienced Staff and Senior Staff DevSecOps engineers.

Responsibilities

• Manage integration, security scanning, and deployment of multiple applications into orchestrated frameworks.

• Work with deployment teams to orchestrate deployments to development, test, and operational environments.

• Create, maintain, and improve Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines in gitlab-ci.

• Monitor CI pipelines for performance and resolve observed or reported issues.

• Implement and maintain version promotion of one or more applications within CI pipelines.

• Integrate CI pipelines with development tools for artifact management, software test, software quality assessment, etc.

• Implement Continuous Delivery and execute automated or manual deployments of applications into orchestrated k8s environments.

• Execute checkout and troubleshooting of deployed applications within development and production environments.

• Execute software release processes including release branch creation, integration, checkout and test.

• Implement and maintain Helm charts.

• Ensure cybersecurity protocols are followed.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• At least two years of professional experience building and executing DevOps or DevSecOps solutions using Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

• Strong experience designing and developing application container deployment solutions using Docker, docker-compose, Kubernetes, etc.

• Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

• Experience with Istio service mesh as well as Prometheus and Grafana

• Strong experience maintaining deployment environments for development, test and production

• Experience with authentication technologies, such as Keycloak

• At least one year of professional experience using Python3

• At least one year of professional experience using Linux operating systems

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences

• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance

• Ability to work 100% on-site

• Detail oriented

• Good verbal and written communication skills

Candidates who have any of the following skills will be preferred:

• Strong experience with software vulnerability scanning with static and dynamic code analysis

• Experience with software vulnerability assessment and remediation using SAST/DAST and tools like Sonarqube

• Strong experience with software package artifact management using JFrog Artifactory, Nexus or similar

• Development experience in Python, C++

• Experience with container security tools such as Grype, Syft

• Experience with version control using Git

• Systems and service administration in a Linux environment, including the installation and maintenance of applications supporting CI/CD like Gitlab, etc

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Benefits

SciTec offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match

• 100% company paid HSA Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options

• 80% company paid Dental insurance

• 100% company paid Vision insurance

• 100% company paid Life insurance

• 100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance

• 100% company paid Hospital Indemnity insurance

• Voluntary Accident and Critical Illness insurance

• Short-term Disability insurance

• Annual Profit-Sharing Plan

• Discretionary Performance Bonus

• Paid Parental Leave

• Generous Paid Time Off, including Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Pay

• Flexible Work Hours

The pay range for this position is $98,000 - $146,000/year. SciTec considers several factors when extending an offer of employment, including but not limited to the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills. This is not a guarantee of compensation.

SciTec is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. VET/Disabled.

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