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IBM
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
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Your Role and Responsibilities
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!
You…
As a DevSecOps Engineer at Octo, you 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. We are looking for a senior level engineer capable of leading a high-profile effort from initiation through operational deployment. You will mentor mid-level developers and engineers. To be successful, you will need experience building products and services that improve software developer feedback loops, time-to production, rollback strategies, CI/CD automation at an Individual Contributor Level. The engineer will also possess effective communication skills to interact with various stakeholders internal and external to the organization.
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…
This is a high-viz, high energy effort to develop and implement a low-to-high DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline for our government customer. This is a multi-company effort that is running fast, taking the best of each. Octo is seen as the technical leadership for the project, with the lead architect/engineer, SCRUM master, and Operations roles. The solution is a cross-cutting application and integration architecture based mostly on GitLab and Atlassian tool suites, based in AWS and built using Infrastructure as Code. This effort will provide the government with a capability that will greatly enhance the software development efforts supporting many of our nation’s critical projects.
Years of Experience: 10 years of experience or more
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical Discipline – Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree. Degree may be offset with additional years of experience
Clearance: DoD TS//SCI CI Poly
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Five-plus (8+) 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 implementing Gitlab
- 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..
- 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, etc.
- Clearance: DoD TS//SCI CI Poly
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Effective communication skills to interact with various stakeholders internal and external to the organization.
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Your Life @ IBM
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Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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Location Statement
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
US Citizenship Required.
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