DevSecOps Engineer - Steampunk

Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs. At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while re-purposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone. While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one. We also believe effective teams are powered by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks. Steampunk is looking for an experienced Salesforce Application Developer with an appetite for taking on new challenges.

As a Salesforce DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing Salesforce and DevSecOps practices delivering cutting edge mission enablement apps on Salesforce. We are looking for an established experience with cloud platform services (i.e. Salesforce), DevOps practices such as build/release management, secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices such as automating security processes in CI/CD pipeline, and general automation. You will help to design, implement, and support cloud solutions and processes leveraged by large number of applications hosted in our environments.

• Help to build our Salesforce DevSecOps Strategy and Practice to integrate cybersecurity into the organizational adoption and improvement of agile practices.
• Partner with Salesforce Engineering team leads to create, implement and apply DevSecOps principles, processes and culture that are consumed by delivery teams across our company.
• Provide subject matter expertise in various risk assessments, working in an Agile environment with an understanding of the full software development life-cycle.
• Advocate for software engineering practices such as unit testing, code reviews, full build testing, quality engineering practices and requirements capturing techniques to the teams to improve end to end secure delivery practices.
• Advocate for and ensure appropriate security practices are communicated and implemented within their projects.
• Partner with development and operations teams to facilitate practical automation solutions and custom modules. Troubleshoot automation issues and when required, engage the resources to find practical solutions that move projects forward in a timely manner.
• Be a trusted automation and tooling adviser for DevSecOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice.
• Assist application teams with on-boarding to the adopted security tools/technologies; working with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to such integrations.
• Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects through to completion.
• Ensure deliverables are completed within target time-frames and are consistently of high-quality, documented and support transition of operational activities.
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.
• Be active in evaluating and recommending new technologies to our DevSecOps and Salesforce Practice.

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Public Trust Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree: degree in business administration, a technology-related field, or equivalent education-related experience.

 Preferred Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment.
• Hands on experience integrating Agile software development frameworks such as SAFe with DevSecOps methodologies
• Working knowledge of Git and repository providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Experience implementing container and orchestration infrastructure utilizing platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of automated CI/CD build engines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI
• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including Selenium, as well as Salesforce specific tools such as Provar
• Hands on experience integrating Salesforce deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration
• Working knowledge of SalesforceDX including package-based development models and scratch-org based development
• Experience working with teams on multi-tiered, complex distributed web applications (Bash Scripting, C#, C++, Java, Python, Perl, PowerShell, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate strategic information security topics, policies and standards as well as risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels.

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $90,000 to $165,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.