DevSecOps Lead

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Job Summary 
 

ICF is seeking a skilled DevSecOps Lead to join our team. You will be responsible for integrating security practices into the DevOps process to enhance the security posture of our applications and infrastructure. Your role involves collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to identify vulnerabilities, automate security testing, and establish best practices for secure coding and deployment. You will support the existing CI/CD pipelines and research ways to continuously improve them while ensuring high quality software solution delivery using modern, secure, scalable, stable environments. 
 

Location  
 

Remote, candidate must reside in the U.S. and work must be performed in the U.S. 
 

Key Responsibilities 

• Responsible for the effectiveness and continuous improvement of all the DevSecOps processes, practices, and activities. 

• Maintain and improve software solutions delivery across multiple Agile teams. 

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines using configuration management best practices for developing and deploying web applications. 

• Research innovative tools that will improve the application infrastructure while reducing costs. 

• Implement processes and scripts that will automate manual tasks related to software development, testing and deployment to ensure rapid delivery of quality solutions. 

• Research, develop and enhance DevSecOps monitoring tools and processes. 

• Manage several integrated environments with multiple systems including connection and security certificates and configurations. 

• Monitor and maintain the application and immutable infrastructure to ensure performance, stability, and security. 

• Collaborate with Product Managers, developers, and integration partners to debug applications and scripts to resolve defects and performance issues. 

• Apply regular, routine security and OS patches as required. 

• Work with the Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) to oversee the performance of security scans with each build, remediate scan findings and support ongoing authorization and improved security posture. 

• Support implementation and testing of infrastructure change requests as required. 
   

Required Qualifications 

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance, US Citizenship required.  

• Must reside in the United States and work must be performed in the United States.  

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years overall IT experience. 

• Previous experience as a Technical Lead or Project Lead 

• 5+ years of experience with systems development in an Agile environment 

• 5+ Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration 

• 5+ years of experience with cloud-based data infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). 

• 5+ years of experience in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, ReactJS, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, or related languages.  

• 5+ years of experience in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL). 
   

Preferred Qualifications 

• Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional, Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert 

• Experience with product management and collaboration tools such as JIRA  

• Experience working on federal contracts in a variety of engagement models and team sizes, including custom open-source development, low-code/no-code solutions, data projects, and management consulting related roles. 
   

Professional Skills 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills 

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred