Cloud DevSecOps Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Optimization Engineer to join our account team supporting a major state & local government customer. In this role you will help with supporting Enterprise Architecture and helping formulate Architectural strategies for future projects associated with IT availability and capacity. We are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to provide technical design, project leadership, mentoring of team members, and consultation services to internal consumers of our services. We want you to be both a driving force within the team and an effective collaborator with our partner teams. You should be comfortable working within all 3 of our primary focus areas (cloud infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD) with strong emphasis on CI/CD service design and management preferred. You will support existing services, recommend/design/implement new services, and work directly with our internal engineering teams to improve both infrastructure and application deployment and testing pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Cost optimizing new cloud environments and applications.
• Designs, plans, and integrates cloud computing and virtualization systems using infrastructure as code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques such as DevOps and/or DevSecOps. 
• Preparing concept of operations papers
• Developing target state diagrams
• Conducting gap analysis of tools, common services and business processes
• Researching alternatives
• Evaluating total cost of ownership
• Establishing roadmaps, project plans, and epics
• Designing, developing, implementing and assessing prototype improvements
• Establishing metrics
• Mentoring teams
• Preparing and presenting supporting documentation
• Work closely with the Government engineers, SAIC cross-functional teams and SAIC partners to define and implement solutions

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelors and 8 years or more experience; Masters and eleven 6 years or more experience; May accept an additional 4 years of experience in lieu of a degree. 

• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to pass a state specific background check required by the customer 

• Must have experience with Terraform in a similar environment 

• Experience with ServiceNow is a large plus 

• 3 years of experience refactoring and migrating cloud applications using DevOps toolsets and modern methods

• 3 years of experience optimizing business processes, developing business cases, and analyzing alternative

• Continuous improvement and continuous learning mindset

• Working knowledge of multiple Cloud Platforms

• Agile process and tools

• Knowledge of DESMF or ITIL

• Knowledge of ServiceNow or comparable IT Service Management (ITSM) products

• DevSecOps methods and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Maven, ANT)

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills

• Proven success in CI/CD service design and implementation as well as end to end pipeline design and rollout
• Proven success in Cloud infrastructure design and deployment across multiple accounts
• Experience managing kubernetes infrastructure design and management
• Experience building and deploying services in a kubernetes environment
• Experience building and managing monitoring systems such as Sensu and Prometheus

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.