DevSecOps Engineer - Gray Analytics

Gray Analytics was founded in 2018 with a vision to bring innovative and creative solutions in the cybersecurity, IT, engineering, and scientific spheres. Our customers span across the commercial and federal domains with our goal being to bring excellent customer service to our clients and employees.

Without the bureaucracy that often exists in larger corporations, Gray Analytics offers increased work flexibility, visibility in company progress, and greater opportunities for advancement. It's with our employees' support that we can help our clients achieve mission and operational success.

At Gray Analytics, our goal is simple: to help our country, its businesses, and its organizations improve security in the Cyber realm. Period.

Position: DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Huntsville, AL

Status: Full Time Exempt

Position Description:

The DevSecOps Engineer works as a member of a DevSecOps team focusing on automation development, testing, and deployment through the entire Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will work to bring modern software development techniques to our DOD customers. The DevSecOps Engineer serves as an escalation point for critical and complex issues, performs configuration, integration, and testing of products, assists with developing and documenting work processes, and trains other team members. We offer an outstanding work-life balance and a fun dedicated team that enjoys our work. We are looking for someone with a strong work ethic, a solid technical foundation, and a willingness to learn new technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: BS/BA degree or equivalent experience, technically strong and highly motivated entry-level candidates will be considered
• This contract requires a security clearance, and eligible candidates must be S. citizens in order to obtain a clearance.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams in the maintenance and development of various CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab, and automated software builds, and tests.
• Design, implement, and maintain systems of varying complexity that support the DevSecOps paradigm of software development processes in a Linux and Windows environment
• Experience with integrating Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies and techniques
• Understanding cloud, virtualization, APIs, and modern software languages
• Experience working with Software Development Lifecycle tools, such as Git, Jira and Jenkins
• Must be proficient in scripting languages (Python, Bash, YML).
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security into DevSecOps workflows.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends and technologies and educate development and operations teams on security best practices
• Soft skills like problem-solving, communication and collaboration are crucial for this role.

Required Certification (s) :

DoD 8570 IAT Level II (one or more) of the following:

• CCNA - Security
• CySA+**
• GICSP
• GSEC
• Security + CE
• CND
• SSCP

Cloud Service Provider (CSP) (one or more) of the following:

• Azure Fundamentals (AZ900)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner

Other Desired Qualifications:

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems like Elastic, Wazuh, Splunk, LogRhythm, QRadar, ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages: Java, Python, Go, Ruby, C++, etc.
• Experience working with containers (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience working with automation tools such as Ansible, Vagrant, Puppet, Terraform, and similar tool-sets
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (such as AWS and Azure)

About Gray Analytics

Gray Analytics values our employees as our most important resource. To showcase these values, we offer not only traditional medical, disability, life, etc. coverages that begin on day one of employment, but also unique benefits to improve our employees' quality of life. Some of these unique benefits include:

• A PTO policy based on total years of experience, not years of service to the company. PTO is available for use immediately at hire, subject to company needs.
• Eligibility for 401K contributions and company matching, Pet Insurance through Spot, Flexible Spending Account, and Tuition and Professional Development Funds begin on day one of employment.
• Charitable donations program on a yearly and quarterly basis where employees can nominate a non-profit of choice to receive donations.

Gray Analytics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. Gray Analytics, Inc. welcomes minority and veteran applicants