DevSecOps Engineer at Synergy BIS

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer who understands and embraces a DevSecOps philosophy and has a history of successfully evaluating technology and implementing DevSecOps processes.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience supporting a custom application in a production environment, including troubleshooting issues
• Strong Linux system administration experience (RHEL/SE Preferred)
• Strong experience with configuration management tools like Ansible (preferred), Jinja, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience with Ansible Tower
• Strong scripting/development experience to automate common routines with Bash and Python
• Strong experience with SCM, CI/CD workflows and tools (Git, GitLab, Artifactory, Maven, Gradle)
• Strong experience with containerization tools like Docker
• Strong experience automating Agile SDLC workflows, including branching/merging, tags, pull requests, release management, and continuous integration builds with automated tests
• Experience with logging configuration and analysis using Splunk, including building alerts, dashboards, and reports
• Strong experience with API's and web services; REST and JSON experience is preferred
• Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must pass a background investigation
• Must be able to obtain, within 6 months, and maintain CSSLP throughout your time on the assigned project. *Boot Camp expenses will be covered for obtaining a CSSLP certificate.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting JEE apps
• Experience with Appian, Oracle DB, JBoss (EAP, AMQ, and Fuse), BPM frameworks
• Experience with STIG controls
• Experience with SELinux and FirewallD
• Experience with SSL certificate management
• Experience managing and configuring JBOSS and/or Tomcat web containers
• Experience with Apache, AJP, Nginx, HAProxy as reverse proxies
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Outcold, Nagios, or similar
• Experience with cloud-based services (AWS, Azure, PAAS)
• Experience with JIRA and other Atlassian tools
• Experience managing and configuring OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Experience with Spring Boot
• RedHat certifications in Linux and OpenShift administration preferred

Description

Synergy Business Innovation & Solutions is a premier implementer of cutting-edge software solutions. Synergy brings the experience and expertise necessary to deliver capability that provides tangible ROI to our customers. Synergy’s core areas of expertise are in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, SaaS and Low-Code/No-Code solutions, Emerging Technologies, Data analytics and Visualization, Information Assurance, and Business Process Re-Engineering.

Synergy offers its employees a generous portfolio of core and voluntary benefits including group medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k) with immediately vested company match, PTO, sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays, company paid life, short-term and long-term disability insurance, tuition and training reimbursement, fitness/wellness reimbursement, a referral bonus program, and life management programs.

At Synergy, you’ll be challenged and given the opportunity to grow in your career path. In fact, growth is such a big deal to us that you will have dedicated career coaches available for every employee, company-funded certification opportunities, education reimbursement, and a general open-door policy so that you have support when you need it. Our team is eager to learn, fast-paced, and quality-driven—if that sounds like you, Synergy has a position for you!

This position is designated as work-from-home.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer who understands and embraces a DevSecOps philosophy and has a history of successfully evaluating technology and implementing DevSecOps processes. You will work closely with architects, development, operations, security, and the customer to provide services and utilize automation tools for our government client; specifically, rapid and reliable configuration management, continuous integration and delivery, and monitoring solutions. You will research, design, and implement tools and services that enable development teams to rapidly deploy new features while maintaining reliability of our operational environments.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, implement, and improve use of technologies to improve efficiency, performance, and reliability
• Analyze requirements and determine best fit architecture
• Design, build, document, and communicate solutions that are generic, scalable, and reusable
• Effectively prioritize work in and communicate on progress
• Assist with software and infrastructure management, inventory, installations, configurations, and connectivity
• Provide backup support for administering database and web servers
• Collaborate with other engineers to develop deployment and maintenance strategies for existing and new services
• Analyze and troubleshoot problems within DevOps tools

Required Skills:

Strong experience supporting a custom application in a production environment, including troubleshooting issues

Strong Linux system administration experience (RHEL/SE Preferred)

Strong experience with configuration management tools like Ansible (preferred), Jinja, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef

Experience with Ansible Tower

Strong scripting/development experience to automate common routines with Bash and Python

Strong experience with SCM, CI/CD workflows and tools (Git, GitLab, Artifactory, Maven, Gradle)

Strong experience with containerization tools like Docker

Strong experience automating Agile SDLC workflows, including branching/merging, tags, pull requests, release management, and continuous integration builds with automated tests

Experience with logging configuration and analysis using Splunk, including building alerts, dashboards, and reports

Strong experience with API's and web services; REST and JSON experience is preferred

Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust

Must be a U.S. citizen

Must pass a background investigation

Must be able to obtain, within 6 months, and maintain CSSLP throughout your time on the assigned project. *Boot Camp expenses will be covered for obtaining a CSSLP certificate.

Preferred Skills:

Familiarity with deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting JEE apps

Experience with Appian, Oracle DB, JBoss (EAP, AMQ, and Fuse), BPM frameworks

Experience with STIG controls

Experience with SELinux and FirewallD

Experience with SSL certificate management

Experience managing and configuring JBOSS and/or Tomcat web containers

Experience with Apache, AJP, Nginx, HAProxy as reverse proxies

Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Outcold, Nagios, or similar

Experience with cloud-based services (AWS, Azure, PAAS)

Experience with JIRA and other Atlassian tools

Experience managing and configuring OpenShift/Kubernetes

Experience with Spring Boot

RedHat certifications in Linux and OpenShift administration preferred

Essential Job Function Physical Requirements: The physical requirements of this position are critical in evaluating the qualifications and abilities of an applicant or employee. The physical efforts needed to perform the essential duties of this job 90% of the time are repetitive motions, grasping, holding, and finger dexterity of the hands, reading, writing, eye-hand coordination, color distinction, and full visual abilities, hearing, talking, sitting, and use of IT equipment, phones, and office machines.

To a reduced degree, <30% of the time, candidates may have to stand, walk, lift 0-30 pounds, push or pull objects, climb stairs, bend, squat, reach, drive a car, or work overtime.

Synergy prefers that all new employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date.

Synergy is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate against applicants for employment or its employees on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, medical condition, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, personal appearance, predisposing genetic characteristics, family responsibilities, familial status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence, political affiliation, arrest records and criminal convictions, or any other characteristic protected by law. Discrimination or harassment based upon these protected categories is expressly prohibited.