Remote Devsecops Engineer Jobs in Leesburg, VA (NOW HIRING)

Who we are:

ShorePoint is a fast-growing, industry recognized and award-winning cybersecurity services firm with a focus on high-profile, high-threat, private and public-sector customers who demand experience and proven security models to protect their data. ShorePoint subscribes to a work hard, play hard mentality and celebrates individual and company successes. We are passionate about our mission and going above and beyond to deliver for our customers. We are equally passionate about an environment that supports creativity, accountability, diversity, inclusion and a focus on giving back to our community.

The Perks:

As recognized members of the Cyber Elite, we work together in partnership to defend our nations critical infrastructure while building meaningful and exciting career development opportunities in a culture tailored to the individuals technical and professional growth. We are committed to the belief that our team members do their best work when they are happy and well cared for. In support of this philosophy, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including major carriers for health care providers. Highlighted benefits offered: 18 days of PTO, 11 holidays, 80% of insurance premium covered, 401k, continued education, certifications maintenance and reimbursement and more.

Who were looking for:

We are seeking a DevSecOps Engineer with hands-on experience supporting cloud-based cybersecurity data systems in fast-paced public sector environments. The ideal candidate will drive operational excellence by engineering, operating and monitoring distributed data infrastructure in collaboration with data engineers, architects and security analysts. The DevSecOps Engineer role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to government cyber data modernization through observability, automation and DevOps practices. This is a unique opportunity to shape the growth, development and culture of an exciting and fast-growing company in the cybersecurity market.

What youll be doing:

• Provide operational engineering support for cyber data systems in government cloud environments.
• Build and integrate IT best practices and operational excellence into all areas of the project.
• Ensure system availability by building observability into large, distributed cybersecurity data infrastructures.
• Develop and maintain systems to monitor data ingestion and storage pipelines.
• Produce dashboards and reports to inform stakeholders on operational metrics, system status, performance and capacity.
• Operate, administer and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and platform services.
• Collaborate in an Agile DevOps team using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices.
• Communicate effectively with team members and maintain documentation for technical procedures.

What you need to know:

• DevOps Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• System automation languages such as Python, Bash and use of editors like VSCode.
• IT operations and troubleshooting, including resolving issues related to data connections and sources.
• System maintenance tasks such as patching and vulnerability management.
• Implementation of IT best practices, including ITIL, change management and configuration management.
• Advanced Linux systems administration and performance tuning.
• AWS cloud services including EKS, VPC, EC2, IAM, Config, SecurityHub and AWS CLI usage.
• Configuration and monitoring using Elasticsearch, Splunk, Grafana and other time-series data platforms.

Must haves:

• 5+ years of experience operating and maintaining large-scale IT systems or supporting system/application integration.
• Proven ability to analyze ambiguous requirements and translate them into clear, actionable tasks and processes through critical thinking.
• Proficiency in administering Linux operating systems.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes via the command line.
• Experience querying APIs to extract and use performance metrics.
• AWS cloud experience, including AWS CLI, Config, Secrets Manager and SecurityHub.
• Intermediate proficiency in Python programming (e.g., AWS Lambda, Boto3 and requests).
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Helm and Terraform.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance, in compliance with federal contract requirements.

Beneficial to have:

• Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
• Familiarity with government cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cyber data analytics.
• Experience with distributed systems integration.
• Intermediate networking experience (e.g., DNS, ports, firewalls, VPC networking).
• Understanding of information security principles.
• Familiarity with Elastic infrastructure and observability.
• Familiarity with Kafka infrastructure management, deployment and monitoring.

Where its done:

• Remote (Herndon, VA).