ARA · 8 hours ago
DevSecOps Engineer
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expApplied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company seeking a DevSecOps Engineer. The role involves developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, and ensuring cybersecurity compliance for military wargaming software.
EducationConsultingHealthcareManufacturingHealth CareInfrastructureTraining
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Developing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Working with developers to containerize both new and existing code
Deploying to on-premises and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters
Managing releases of the application to our customer environments
Implementing Terraform code to deploy security compliant cloud infrastructure
Completing cybersecurity requirements of the production system in terms of achieving and maintaining an Authority to Operate (ATO) from our customer
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related) along with 8-10 years of related experience or 6-8 years of experience with Master's Degree in Computer Science (or related)
3+ years experience with Terraform IaC for cloud providers (AWS preferred)
3+ years experience with Kubernetes & containers
3+ years experience with CI/CD systems (GitLab, GitHub, Atlassian, or similar)
3+ years experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (Python, Java, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Golang, or similar)
U.S. Citizenship required
You will be working closely with a collaborative team so your team player personality and excellent written/oral communication skills will be essential
CompTIA Security+ (or DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 equivalent)
Preferred
1 year of Security patching and remediation experience
AWS Certification (any of Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps, DevOps) not required but strongly preferred
Kubernetes Certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS) not required but strongly preferred
Linux OS Certification (Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE or similar) not required but strongly preferred
Company
ARA
ARA provides research, engineering, and technical support services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$12MKey Investors
Engineer Research and Development Center
2023-03-16Grant· $12M
Leadership Team
Curt Beckemeyer
President & CEO
Maggie Gendron
Vice President Government Relations
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