ANR - DevSecOps Cloud Engineer - Level II

The Alaska Northstar Resources (ANR) team is currently searching for a DevSecOps Cloud Engineer for a long-term effort supporting a government agency program. This position will be 100% remote but could require onsite access and 5-10% travel.

The DevSecOps Engineer will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following: 

• Identify and leverage best practices implementing the major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), etc.).
• Utilize cloud tools (such as AWS CLI, CloudFormation, AWS-Roles) to standardize, secure, and automate infrastructure deployment and management activities.
• Deploy a multi-layer integrated system leveraging automation and containerization.
• Demonstrate and exercise operational rigor, documentation of steps, backup of artifacts, validation through unit testing and comparison, and restoration of changes.
• Participate in Agile team structure to develop and deploy architectural components and services, application code, patches and configuration changes, and integration capabilities.
• Provide strategic and engineering guidance to customer, program team, and project managers regarding technology evaluation, planning, and implementation.
• Develop technology roadmaps, providing technical advice and develop solutions to address customer requirements.
• Conduct Engineering sessions, develop and refine activity sequences and level of effort estimates for project managers as requested to develop project schedules.

• US Citizenship is required by the contract.
• Candidate must be clearable at the PUBLIC TRUST level
• Candidate must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent field 

Candidate must have 5+ years of experience with the following:

• Networking, infrastructure, or database engineering or operations
• Build, deployment, and release automation and orchestration
• Supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure
• Infrastructure as code environments, including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD

Candidate must have experience with the following: 

• Automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Automating system configurations and orchestrating network operations and DevSecOps pipelines, scaling, releases, and day-to-day system operations in Cloud environments
• Provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as applications in Cloud environments including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Identifying and implementing automation to improve user experience
• Scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby
• Open technologies, DevSecOps, and related Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Git, and others
• System integration using a variety of protocols, including XML, REST, and JSON
• Experience with leveraging JSON, YAML, or XML for configuration
• DevOps and Agile methodologies
• Documenting an as-is state of …