Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Ardent is a software development firm, focused on high-value/ high-technology solutions for government projects and invites you to join our dynamic organization.  Ardent offers competitive salaries, matching 401K, Liberal PTO and paid holidays, tuition reimbursement and a host of other benefits, creating a rewarding and fast-paced work environment.  

Ardent is seeking a Lead DevSecOps Engineer (Consultant) to join our team.  This is currently a remote role but may require a hybrid or full time

The DevSecOps Engineer will design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure Cloud products and services within a Cloud-based environment to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible. Leverage an automated process to mitigate security vulnerabilities in the environment by working with the team to triage security vulnerabilities and planning mitigation activities, including but not limited to OS patching. Coordinate with a team of Cloud and DevOps engineers to help tenants realize value through product offerings and operations.

Requirements

• The DevOps Engineer requires minimum of 7 years of programming experience. Includes 3+ years of experience in working within software engineer team who leveraged DevOps with development o Includes 3+ years of experience in at least two of the following fields in information security, computer or information science or related fields
• Experience using a wide variety of open source and COTS technologies and tools
• Experience in providing Analysis of Alternatives for tools and capabilities from various on premise, Cloud-based, and hybrid resources
• Experience in managing a Platform-as-a-Service environment (i.e., create blueprints, provision, maintain, upgrade and track inventory)
• Solid understanding of and experience implementing and integrating CI/CD Tools from the ground up, such as Atlassian (JIRA and Confluence), Github, Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Selenium, SonarQube, Gatling, JMeter, JUnit, AMP, aChecker, Jaws, Netsparker, OWASP ZAP, Tenable Nessus, Splunk, Prometheus, CloudWatch, New Relic, Grafana. Includes experience with Docker containerized application deployment and monitoring, cluster management
• Strong background working in an agile development environment, collaborating with Application Development and Architecture Teams
• Experience with service-oriented architecture, web services, Application Programming Interfaces
• Experience working in a High Availability environment with 99.99%+ uptime
• Strong background in Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure and Google cloud, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Apache, NGINX, PHP
• Comfortable writing deployment scripts in languages such as Python, Shell, AWS Cloud Formation, Groovy, and Golang
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfort with automated, frequent, incremental code testing and deployment as part of a set of mature DevOps practices
• Strong grasp of automation tools (e.g., Cloudwatch, Lamdba, GitOps, Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc.,)
• A strong focus on achieving value for business objectives
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills. Proficiency in a variety of computer programs and applications including VMWare, Windows, Linux, Oracle and Solaris.
• BA or BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics

Qualifications

• BA/BS in related fields (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred).
• Expert knowledge of the underlying concepts of Branching, Merging, and Archiving software throughout the development lifecycle
• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience
• Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as source control (GIT preferred), build (Maven), and automation (Jenkins)
• Understanding of the Agile SDLC and how DevOps play a role in it
• Good communication skills

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

In compliance with Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, able to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination status.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.