Position Title: Dev(Sec)Ops Developer/Engineer
Description: Candidate will work closely with a diverse client project team responsible for shaping the client’s Dev(Sec)Ops strategy and applying that strategy to specific client IT programs or across a large enterprise of federated programs developed by different organizations. The development environment is fast-paced, spans the full application stack, and increasingly leverages agile development methodologies, Dev(Sec)Ops tools and processes, and an expanding cloud-based infrastructure. Depending on current team needs, responsibilities may include: designing and integrating Dev(Sec)Ops tools, technologies, and processes for deployment, monitoring, and operations of mission systems; working with application teams to help adopt Dev(Sec)Ops continuous build, inspection, testing, and deployment approaches; participating in all aspects of system engineering and promoting industry standard Dev(Sec)Ops methodologies; and/or helping configure and monitor system to ensure maximum uptime and optimal performance for mission customers.
About Cleared Solutions Inc.: Cleared Solutions is a national security-focused, small business platform for highly skilled IT consultants and strategic advisers specializing in transforming legacy technical environments into modern, agile, and secure IT enterprises. Our expertise in Data/Information, IT Services/Applications, Cybersecurity/Information Assurance, and Counterintelligence/Insider Threats enables us to effectively operate from the C-Suite to the Dev-Suite working with partners and clients to solve the most difficult challenges. We drive towards rapid decision making and high-quality, trusted, and comprehensive deliverables. Our consultants thrive in integrated contractor teams where collaboration with our corporate and government partners yield targeted, measurable, and mission-oriented results. We have multiple national security clients in the Washington Metro Area across multiple contract vehicles in need of top-notch talent.
Qualifications:
- Clearance: Positions require U.S. Citizenship and active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph
- Degree: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a closely-related Engineering or IT discipline
- Certifications: We prefer one or more of the following certifications: AWS Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Big Data, AWS Solutions Architect); Microsoft Azure certifications; Professional Cloud Solutions Architect
- Experience: Minimum 7 years (with minimum 3 years in the IC) developing, securing, integrating, deploying, maintaining, and evaluating systems leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure performing Dev(Sec)Ops-related functions
Knowledge/Skills/Expertise: Our clients have very complex environments often requiring demonstrated experience in various facets of legacy and modern IT infrastructure and platforms needed to efficiently collect, store, process, and protect growing amounts of data for optimized user discovery and analytics. We are seeking candidates experienced in many of the following areas representative of our clients’ IT environments:
- Architecting and leading the development and integration of cloud-based information systems consisting or infrastructure, platform, software, data, analytics, and security “as-a-service” components
- Directing and assisting cloud system engineers in the application of system engineering and Dev(Sec)Ops principles to secure cloud systems design problems
- Full application stack systems analysis, software/application development life cycle based on modern agile development practices, concept of Infrastructure as Code, and automating deployments/changes to large-scale clusters
- Object-oriented programming development concepts and design patterns
- DevOps/DevSecOps: Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Docker, CloudFormation, ANT); development-related tooling such as IDE, build, source control, and test applications (e.g., Eclipse, IntelliJ); and test-driven-development methodologies
- Operating systems, applications, and security vulnerability tools running locally, virtualized, or in cloud-based environment: Windows 2000/2003/XP/7, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, VMware, Red Seal, Tenable Security Center, Splunk, XACTA 360, WebInspect, AppDetective, Nessus, NMAP
- Programming Languages: Java, Javascript, Python, C/C++, JSON, PHP, Perl, SQL, Scala, Groovy, Ruby, Pig/Hive, Elixir, XML
- Frameworks: Angular, React, ExtJS, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate
- Architectural Styles: REST, Microservices, Service Oriented, Event Driven
- Cloud: Amazon Web Services (e.g., Commercial and Government Cloud Services for DoD and IC, EMR w/Spark and RDS, EC2, EBS, S3, Route 53, RDS, VPC, ELB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Blue Green deployment, Auto scaling, Trusted Advisor, Identity & Access Management, Simple Notation Service, Billing Console), Microsoft Azure
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Nexus, Software defined networking
- Data Ingestion/ETL: Spark, Nifi, Kafka, Flink, ActiveMQ, Pentaho, machine translation, language identification
- Databases/Indexing/Analytics: PostgreSQL, RDS, Microsoft Access, Oracle 10g/11g, MqSQL/Workbench, MongoDB, Hbase, Cassandra, MapReduce, Lucene, ElasticSearch, Spark, Latent Semantic Indexing
- Security Integration: Auto scaling, Anti-virus, Identity and access management software (Centrify), Auditing/logging, VPC Flow Logs, Continuous Risk Evaluation, Trusted Advisor, STS, LDAP, Active Directory, Non-standard person entities (NSPEs) including non-person entities (NPEs) and non-standard entities (NSEs), X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates
- Authentication: LDAP, Oauth, AWS STS, Active Directory
- Infrastructure: AWS/C2S, proxies between stacks, encrypted data, Cisco Cloud Center, Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco ACI Fabric, OpenStack, Vormetric, F5 Big-IP, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail
Compensation/Benefits: Cleared Solutions offers a comprehensive and attractive package of compensation and benefit offerings that are selected and tuned to provide the greatest benefits to our employees. Our compensation packages are largely driven by the market and what our clients and partners are willing to pay for our services and consultant expertise. Our benefits target near-term financial stability, long-term retirement planning, important time away from the workplace, and the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Highlights include: 100% covered medical, dental, orthodontia, vision, and prescription insurance premiums; 401(k) with company match; Section 125 flexible spending accounts; and a flexible leave policy.
Apply today to join a company of consultants who are sought after for our broad, multi-disciplinary technical qualifications and unique and extensive knowledge of complex operational environments.
Visit www.clearedsolutions.com for more information or to apply.
Cleared Solutions Inc. is Virginia Small Business incorporated since 2004. We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
