DevSecOps Engineer- Secret Clearance

SHERPA LLC
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States
27 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$105,000.0 - $160,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Cloud Computing Continuous Integration DevOps Github Groovy Python (Programming Language) Windows PowerShell Systems Development Life Cycle
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Security Software Software Engineering Systems Integration Pulumi Scripting Cloud Platform System Git Gitlab-ci Git Flow Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology Build Process Machine Learning Operations Terraform Devsecops Docker Jenkins

Job description

  • Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
  • You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches
  • Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
  • Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.
  • Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.
  • Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.
  • Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
  • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
  • Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.
  • Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
  • Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project

Requirements

If you enjoy solving complex DevSecOps challenges, influencing architecture decisions, and seeing your work immediately shape real-world outcomes, this is an exceptional opportunity., * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

  • Experience working within AWS environments.
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, build engineering, or a similar discipline.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
  • Strong knowledge of Git, including branching strategies and tagging workflows.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:

  • Experience integrating automated security scans and documentation into CI/CD pipelines or IT workflows.
  • Experience with SageMaker.
  • Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
  • Experience working within DoD or government environments.
  • Familiarity with DISA STIGs and automated compliance scanning.
  • MLOps experience, The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.

Benefits & conditions

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

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