Sr. DevSecOps Engineer

Company Overview:

Over the past 15 years, eTel has delivered essential solutions for the federal government by securing and managing data, providing scalable identity access, modernizing legacy systems, and building high-performance platforms. By integrating new technologies and ensuring reliable operations we help agencies stay prepared for future challenges. As a premier technology solutions and services company to the US federal government, eTel possesses longstanding relationships across the federal civilian marketplace, with especially strong ties with Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Other customers include the broader Treasury Department, Commerce Department, and State Department.

eTel offers integrated CMMI Level 3 processes, tools, and techniques with innovative, cost-efficient, and secure solutions to address complex challenges. eTel also holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certifications, and offers dedicated subject matter experts (SMEs) and thought leaders that possess a deep understanding of customers’ environments and challenges.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a Sr. DevSecOps Engineer to join our team supporting our Internal Revenue Service (IRS) client to help improve the IRS’ Technology Infrastructure services.

The Sr. DevSecOps Engineer will provide support to infrastructure and application teams by ensuring that the systems and production environment is optimized in accordance with organization standards while meeting requirements. The candidate must have knowledge and experience using the agile methodology with an emphasis on automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery. The Sr. DevOps Engineer will work closely with enterprise configuration management team to maintain, build CI/CD pipelines, design, deploy and maintain virtual desktop infrastructure solutions, and review existing technology implementations and suggest and implement improvements and upgrades. The Sr. DevSecOps Engineer will provide migration support to transition GitLab based high profile projects to the enterprise CICD Jenkins-based fully automated pipeline.

Job Responsibilities/Duties:

The Sr. DevSecOps Engineer will have the following responsibilities:

• Collaboratively work with a team (as an engineer) that maintains an enterprise Jenkins pipeline.
• Integrate DevSecOps technical components with Enterprise IRS initiatives like the Enterprise Container Platform (platform as a service) and Infrastructure as Code initiative, and support the migration of GitLab projects to enterprise Jenkins.
• Write scripts and small utilities, automate deployments, and evaluate pipelines against industry and in-house standards.
• Follow and automate steps involved with onboarding projects, document tasks, implement enhancements; enforce standards related Trunk-based development and definitions of done.
• Collaboratively work with existing team leveraging agile methodology.
• Evaluate tools and help integrated them with CICD pipeline.
• Provide hands-on assistance to project teams with the implementation of the CI/CD pipeline, training the projects teams so they can independently maintain pipelines for their project.
• Educate IRS ECP stakeholders on best practices on container adoption in areas of security, processes/procedures, maintenance, etc.
• Support development of the DevOps Automated Testing Strategy document and identification and onboarding of projects for automated regression testing.
• Hands on experience with some of these tools: Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, NexusIQ, AppScan, GitLab, GitHub, Maven scripting tool, Jacoco, bash/c/shell scripting, python, node.js., and Open Shift platform.
• Troubleshoot orchestration, IaC, PaaS, containerization, CI/CD, and automated testing solutions.

Project Specific Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university required, an additional four (4) years of related work experience can substitute for a degree; preferred degree in Engineering or Information Technology related major.
• At least eight (7) years working in an IT platform engineering environment or related field.
• Experience with source control tools (GIT, SVN), Jenkins CI/CD, GitLab, system configuration, management, and virtualization and VMware environments.
• Experience using automation technologies such as Ansible to automate server builds, installation, configuration, and change management.
• Scripting experience (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, shell, WLST, JBoss CLI, Bash/KSH).
• Working experience with cloud technologies, Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) experience using OpenShift by Red Hat.
• Knowledge and experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics.
• Experience working with application servers such as Apache Tomcat, Node.js, or RedHat JBoss.
• Understanding of network topology and technologies: firewalls, load-balancers, DNS, VPN, NAT.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across organizations.
• In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing Enterprise level systems.
• Excellent attention to detail, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and interface with all levels of management to perform complex tasks with minimal supervision and guidance.
• Excellent time management, scheduling, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work well independently or in a team setting.
• REQUIRED: IRS system and data knowledge experience.
• REQUIRED: Current active IRS MBI.
• REQUIRED: Current possession of GFE to transition to the contract and start work rapidly.

Additional Requirements as per contract/client:

• Candidates must meet requirements to obtain and maintain an IRS Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) clearance (active IRS Moderate Risk MBI clearance is a plus).
• Candidates must be a US Citizen or a Legal Permanent Resident (Green Card status) for 3 years and be Federal Tax compliant.

Commitment to Diversity -
eTelligent Group provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.