Security Devsecops Engineer - Hybrid

Security Engineer

GDIT, a Federal marketplace leader in next-generation IT solutions and professional services, is seeking highly qualified and motivated IT professionals like you who are eager to contribute to our critical Homeland Security missions. GDIT is supporting Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) software development and application enhancements. GDIT is excited to offer you a unique opportunity to join an Agile Team utilizing CI/CD pipeline to support one of our nation's most critical homeland missions.

GDIT is seeking a highly motivated security engineer to join our growing team to develop, support, and modernize mission-critical applications for our DHS customer. The successful candidate will help to develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications. You will also provide support and technical advice during conceptualization, development, and implementation phases to transform requirements to working solutions. This includes involvement with users to define system scope and objectives, as well as contributing to design decisions.

US Citizenship required. Candidate must be local to the Virginia office.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Analyze security systems and seek improvements on a continuous basis
• Report possible threats or software issues
• Ability to implement cost-effective solutions to cybersecurity problems
• Understand software and hardware implementation in datacenter and cloud environments
• Develop best practices and security standards for the organization
• Test application software and patches
• Assist fellow employees with cybersecurity, software, hardware or IT needs
• Scrum/agile project lifecycle approach to resolving vulnerabilities

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship
• DHS HQ EOD required to start; must be able to obtain DHS HQ Final Suitability
• Bachelors degree or equivalent and 10+ years of security experience
• Experience / basic understanding of Java programming language
• Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS
• Experience with secure development, coding, and engineering practices
• Knowledge with end-to-end fully-automated CI/CD pipelines, from code commits to production
• Experience with build automation CM tools
• Experience in Jira to support DevOps implementation in an Agile environment
• Experience in Agile methodology
• Location Hybrid

Desired Skills / Qualifications:

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Certifications such as CISSP, GSEC, CEH or CISM desired
• An understanding of best practices and how to implement them at a business-wide levels
• Familiar with Ansible Tower
• Familiar with Redshift and AWS
• Experience with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven
• Experience with Jira to support configuration management in an Agile environment

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $121,680 - $149,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid

Work Location: USA VA Springfield

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.