Sr. DevSecOps Engineer

Senior DEVSECOPS Engineer

Immediate need for a DevSecOps Engineer to support the Defense Logistics Agency, API Gateway Program. The Senior Systems Administrator will be one of the technical experts for Ansible ecosystem & DevOps practices within the organization, providing solutions and technical implementation aligned with the automation program objectives. This team member will develop Ansible artifacts, troubleshoot issues and work on implementing configuration management roadmap of the organization.

Responsibilities :

• Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises
• Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules
• Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks
• Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
• Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds.
• Generate auto start/stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible.
• Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate).
• Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment.
• Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage
• Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions.
• AWS GovCloud Architecture & Management: Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and compliant AWS GovCloud environments for DoD applications.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to DoD cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP, Zero Trust). Implement STIGs, security baselines, and automated security scanning (SAST/DAST).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Deploy and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters in AWS GovCloud, leveraging services like Amazon EKS, ECS

Qualifications:

• At least four (4) years of experience using Ansible for DevOps Development with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures.
• Strong experience with Ansible Playbook development and Ansible CLI deployment.
• Advanced-level scripting in Bash.
• Log shipping application logs to Splunk and AWS Cloud watch
• Expert level RHEL 8, using cloud-init for provisioning.
• At least 3 years of experience administrating Kubernetes and creating deployments yaml (any flavor, but prefer EKS)
• Excellent working knowledge of Jenkins, Git
• Expertise implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline in Jenkins using Declarative Pipeline language
• Knowledge required to build and manage Dockerfile to be deployed on Kubernetes deployments.
• Experienced with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment.
• Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment
• Must possess active IT-II security clearance or have a current National Agency Check with Local Agency Check and Credit Check (NACLC)

Plus

• Knowledge of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a plus

Education : Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline.

Salary Range: There are various factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, education, certifications, and competencies that align with the specified role, as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is: $115,000 - $130,000.

Company Overview:

Founded in 1996, Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) has evolved into a company of highly qualified professionals that provides full cycle IT Consultant and Management support in both the private and public sectors.

Horizon culture supports a strong work life balance and offers a comprehensive benefit package, to include healthcare (medical, dental vision and disability), 401k program where you are 100% vested from day one with an employer match after 90 days, Educational Assistance program, Student Loan Repayment program and a Gym Reimbursement program.

Horizon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and it is our policy to consider all applicants for employment.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, alienage, ancestry, citizenship status, or any other factors prohibited by law. 

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