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Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Senior DevSecOps Software Engineer to add to our team.
Quick Position Overview:
- US Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's Degree is required
- minimum of 6 years position related experience is required
The Role:
STS is seeking a Senior DevSecOps software engineer to support a NASA contract. The Senior DevSecOps software engineer will build innovative tools allowing scientists and students alike to discover, transform, update and improve the quality of Earth Science data in the pursuit of solving a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues.
The Senior DevSecOps engineer in this role will work with the On-Premise and Cloud CICD team to integrate security compliance and vulnerability scanning tooling into software build, test, and deployment processes.
The candidate will perform design, development, integration and testing of the security software in support of software deliveries using the Agile software development methodologies. The successful candidate will have a knowledge of technical standards, principles, concepts of software engineering and will be expected to develop solutions to technical problems of varying scope and complexity.
A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.
The Senior DevSecOps Software Engineer at STS will:
- Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Testing, selection and implementation of technologies and tools related to security and CICD pipeline
- Collaborate with diverse development teams to evolve automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system
- Participate as a member on an Agile team and work with other team members to review user stories, estimate effort to build functionality supporting user stories and participate in sprint reviews
- Work with vendors and other technical and security teams for problem resolution
- Document release information to achieve an effective product deployment
- Use effective troubleshooting techniques to identify software problems
- Possess knowledge of the implementation of risk assessment techniques and the latest security best practices
- Automation of security controls
Education and Experience:
Required
- Must have a BS degree in technical major, such as engineering or computer science, and 8 years direct professional experience.
- 4 years of experience writing Python, Java, C++, or other high level language code
- 6 years of experience in supporting development and sustainment of a large system in a Linux environment
- Experience with CICD or DevOps tools (Bamboo, Jenkins, Nexus, Docker,Snyk)
- Experience with DAST/FAST security vulnerability tools
- Knowledge of Linux/UNIX OS (Red Hat or CentOS Linux 7 or 8)
- Experience writing Python 3, Java, C++, and other high level languages
- Experience writing scripting languages such as Bash or C-Shell
- Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS via Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Experience supporting software development teams, tools, and processes
- Demonstrated ability in writing and maintaining software documentation
- Must be able to obtain government security clearance
Desired
- Experience with AWS (e.g. ECS, Lambda functions, S3)
- Experience with Postgres, GIT, Apache, Tomcat, Jira or Web Coverage Services (WCS)
- Python numpy and hdf libraries
- Experience with Docker containers
Preferred Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Other Certificates supporting Microsoft technologies
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