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Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Octo Consulting Group

Aug 27, 2023
Principal DevSecOps Engineer Location: Hanscom AFB, MA Req#: 611487 Company Information Octo, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes. Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region's best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice! Job Description You... The Principal DevSecOps Engineer shall have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience integrating DevSecOps tools as part of an agile team to achieve Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of applications. This senior engineer will be capable of mentoring junior developers and engineers. A successful engineer shall have experience building products and services that improve software developer feedback loops, time-to production, rollback strategies, and CI/CD automation at an Individual Contributor Level. Us... We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client's missions. Program Mission... Provide macro-level architectural solutions of a multi-region hybrid infrastructure (on-prem and commercial cloud), a cross-cutting application and integration architecture, and a data management and analytics architecture. This effort will provide the Air Force with feature strategic team members integrated with the Kessel Run teams to support a culture of continuous improvement across the teams. Focus on providing DevSecOps software engineering expertise, Kubernetes infrastructure, and multi-region platform services that help modernize Legacy software systems and supporting external DoD software initiatives. Skills & Requirements What we’d like to see... Six-plus (6+) years of experience leading teams of software engineers and extensive expertise in CI/CD implementation with proven track record of performance Five-plus (5+) years of experience developing containerized services deployed on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, etc. Five-plus (5+) years of demonstrated DevOps expertise leveraging Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies such as Gitlab (and Gitlab Runners), Jenkins, Concourse, CircleCI, etc. Three-plus (3+) years of experience with Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform. Five-plus (5+) years of experience building services using Cloud Infrastructure Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Two-plus (2+) years of experience securing applications via CI/CD pipelines leveraging static code analysis, unit and integration testing, dependency analysis, etc. Three-plus (3+) years of experience developing production software leveraging modern languages (including: Java, Python, Go, NodeJS, etc.) With Emphasis on Python. Three-plus (3+) years of experience with agile and lean software development philosophies. One-plus (1+) years of experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases, e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc. Two-plus (2+) years of demonstrated experience with modern version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc. Within 90 days of onboarding: CompTIA Security+ CE or other DoD 8570 IAT II certification Desired Skills: Effective written and verbal communication skills to interact with various stakeholders internal and external to the organization. Years of Experience: 12 years of experience or more Education: Bachelor's Degree in a Technical Discipline - Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree (preferred) Location: Must be able to work 2-4 days per week on-site at either of these 2 locations: Hanscom AFB, MA OR Downtown Boston, MA. Remainder of work will be performed remotely. Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required, DoD Secret or higher preferred Octo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation. Octo is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. Octo will be the hiring entity. 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