Senior DevOps Specialist
D. Kent Consulting Group, LLC
Date: 13 hours ago
City: Bowie, MD
Contract type: Full time

Benefits:
This Position will:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
This Position will:
- Integrate security tools and practices into DevOps workflows (e.g., SAST, DAST, SCA).
- Automate security testing and compliance checks.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure secure coding and deployment practices.
- Monitor and respond to security incidents and vulnerabilities.
- Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) with security best practices.
- Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments.
- Stay current with emerging security threats, tools, and technologies.
- When needed, advise on cloud strategy for the government client in assessing cloud alternatives, migration strategy, procurement strategy, identifying a suite of applications for the cloud, and achieving optimization of economics, compute, storage, scale, performance, and redundancies.
- Develop supporting in-depth analysis that will include economic feasibility assessments via business case development for DevSecOps in an enterprise cloud architecture.
- Advise on overall strategy and alignment with modernization of Client IT infrastructure including cloud hybrid and on-premises solutions with provisions for security, low latency connectivity, and mobile service delivery.
- Assist in the development of an application rationalization strategy, a cloud migration approach, and a cloud assessment framework optimize Client IT workloads in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment.
- Provide analysis and oversight for technical processes to provision cloud-based service models and related hosting in DevSecOps environments for use within the enterprise.
- Support the development and use of governance frameworks for cloud management along with provisions for security, data protections, privacy, and relevant safeguards.
- The candidate must be a strong written and oral communicator and be comfortable interacting with clients and serving as confidant of senior consulting leadership.
- Support the client management and stakeholders to plan for and address risks and issues as they occur, to ensure that the project remains on schedule and within budget.
- Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure CI/CD pipelines.
- US Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Suitability/Public Trust.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Security Engineering, or related roles.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud security.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with security tools (e.g., SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Aqua, Snyk).
- Understanding of compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST).
- Certifications such as AWS Certified Security, Certified DevSecOps Professional, or CISSP.
- Experience with multiple IaC tools (i.e., Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins).
- Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and secure software supply chain practices.
- Experience supporting federal government customers and/or prior experience within the federal government.
- Demonstrated experience of hands-on experience providing writing support, go-to-market support, and interfacing with government cloud team(s) to the field of technology management, IT strategy and/or analytics.
- Demonstrated facilitation and presentation skills targeting all levels of an organization and across business and technical functions leveraging visualization platforms (PowerBI, Powerpoint).
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