Senior DevSecOps Software Engineer needed for a 12-month Contract to Hire opportunity with SOC's client to work onsite in Chantilly, VA.

*Candidates must have an active TS/SCI with CI Poly or consent to obtain one to be considered for this role.

Our client is looking for a self-starting, team-oriented Senior DevOps Software Engineer to join their dynamic development team in supporting space domain mission applications. The selected candidate will be working with a classified large-scale enterprise application using web technologies, distributed computation and storage frameworks, and sophisticated, cutting-edge domain analytics, with the system hosted on virtualized and cloud computing platforms. The successful candidate will have the ability to work both independently with little supervision as well as engage with a team to achieve overall project objectives.

Essential Functions:

• The selected Software Engineer participates in a team in implementing DevSecOps methodologies into an Agile software development environment.
• Collaborating and leading with other engineers to plan, design and develop the DevSecOps environment that includes cohesive CI/CD pipelines.
• Supporting the entire Software Development Lifecycle with an emphasis on build and release management via automation
• Analyzing continuously the DevSecOps environment for technical and process improvements (e.g. integration of security measures, faster security and software updates, improved automation, reduced glitches, and software failures, etc.)
• Maintaining the deployed system, deploying updates and fixes, investigating, and resolving technical and network issues, providing technical support to end-users as needed
• Promoting DevSecOps as a team culture
• The ideal candidate will have outstanding technical talent with desire to continuously learn and apply new skills and technologies.

Qualifications:

• Active TS SCI with CI Poly Clearance or TS/SCI with consent to CI Poly
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Security + Certified
• Experience with configuration management tools such as like Puppet, Chef, and/or Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience (Mid/Senior level) with Linux administration, preferably RHEL/CentOS 7 and 8
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or GovCloud

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with Space Systems
• Experience with continuous integration, build management, and automated test frameworks.
• Experience with deploying software applications to operations.
• Experience with diverse multi-site geographical team collaboration.
• Experience using the Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experience with Microservices

Employment Pre-requisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and d rug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.