DevSecOps Engineer

The Defense group supports the Department of Defense (DoD) mission to keep our homeland and its citizens safe. We provide solutions to improve the Nations defense by providing software systems engineering IT training and logistics and fleet management solutions.

We are seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support the Peraton Team.

Peraton provides engineering services including architecture software development cybersecurity engineering test & integration planning integration fielding quality assurance documentation and sustainment support of various Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC) software applications and initiatives including the Program Executive Office for Command Control Communications Computers and Intelligence (PEOC4I) Storefront (STFNT)/AA. This effort includes systems engineering software development and sustainment of these systems to allow their users to access manipulate and display relevant data for the users mission. Peraton currently provides support in the areas of system administration cybersecurity operations and maintenance and the analysis assessment and transition of emerging technologies to support DoD other government agency applications.

What youll do:

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

• Design and implement innovative technologies for automating integrating and delivering containerized web applications and services for the Department of Defense (DoD).
• Daytoday efforts include working with highly talented professionals and subject matter experts to design implement and sustain missioncritical software systems that provide US Navy warfighters with the tools and resources for successfully planning and executing missions.
• Use containers (e.g. Docker Rancher) and orchestration configurations (e.g. Helm OpenShift) to deploy software using microservice architecture to support Navy DevSecOps initiatives.
• Develop security hardened container images to comply with operational DoD compliance.
• Create automated Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline daily software development operations.

What youll do:

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

• Design and implement innovative technologies for automating integrating and delivering containerized web applications and services for the Department of Defense (DoD).
• Daytoday efforts include working with highly talented professionals and subject matter experts to design implement and sustain missioncritical software systems that provide US Navy warfighters with the tools and resources for successfully planning and executing missions.
• Use containers (e.g. Docker Rancher) and orchestration configurations (e.g. Helm OpenShift) to deploy software using microservice architecture to support Navy DevSecOps initiatives.
• Develop security hardened container images to comply with operational DoD compliance.
• Create automated Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline daily software development operations.

Qualifications (iCIMS header on posting):

Required qualifications:

• Education & Certification:
• BS in STEM (or equivalent) with 2 years of experience; MS in STEM (or equivalent) with 0 years of experience or HS Diploma with 6 years of relevant experience
• CompTIA Security Certified (or able to obtain within 30 days)
• Citizenship & Clearance:
• Candidate must be a US citizen.
• Must be able to live in the San Diego metro area
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance at the Secret level.

• Experience: Demonstrated 2 years of DevSecOps experience with
  • Containerization (i.e. Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Rancher)
  • Container orchestration tools (i.e. Kubernetes OpenShift Helm)
  • InfrastructureasCode (i.e. Ansible Vagrant Terraform CloudFormation)
  • CI/CD automation tools (i.e. GitLab Jenkins AWS Code Build Azure Pipelines)
  • Linux operating systems (i.e. RHEL CentOS Ubuntu)
  • Automation and Scripting (i.e. Bash Python PowerShell etc.)
  • Cyber security practices (i.e. Active Directory HBSS etc.)
  • Working in headless RHEL environments

Desired qualifications:

• Security Clearance: Currently holds an active Secret clearance.
• Tools:
  • Data pipeline tools (i.e. Apache NiFi Kafka Databricks MinIO)
  • Cyber security tools (i.e. OpenSCAP Snyk JFrog Xray Anchore)
  • Secret management tools such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience:
  • Cloud computing infrastructure or development (i.e. AWS Microsoft Azure)
  • Fullstack software development (i.e. Java .NET JavaScript SQL)
  • Utilizing Atlassian suite or equivalent (i.e. JIRA Confluence Bitbucket)
  • Test automation frameworks (i.e. Selenium Cypress)
  • Configurating OIDC and OAuth applications

Peraton is a nextgeneration national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.