Job Details

Position Summary

BayFirst Solutions, a subsidiary of Versar, Inc., is seeking a Senior Security Engineer (DevSecOps) to support the Department of Homeland Security's Enterprise Engineering Division (EED) within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). This candidate will be a member of a high functioning team supporting cybersecurity countermeasures to strengthen DHS enterprise and HQ networks, to include the administration and support to a portfolio of security tools and associated infrastructure in production. This candidate will work directly with a team of network and security engineers, data center specialists, industry vendors, and DHS stakeholder groups that includes 20+ DHS Components.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Designs and develops cybersecurity technologies along with integration of new architectural features into existing infrastructures while maintaining the integrity and security of enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.
• Demonstrated DevSecOps skills and experience required to meet requirements.
• Supports DHS Security Engineering efforts related to DevSecOps, Agile, GitHub, Kubernetes, OWASP, API, Scripter/code tester - Java, PHP, C, .NET, Go, PowerShell, Python, CSRF, XSS, ubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, Red Hat OpenShift, AWS, AWS Lambda with AWS API Gateway, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Fortify, AppDetective.
• Able to support the integration of security processes, controls, and technologies into technical solutions.
• Uses standard solutions, and a consistent approach in design, development, and testing.
• Recommend improvements to security architectures that increase levels of automation, implement a DevSecOps operating philosophy, and address current and anticipated data and processing needs.
• Recommend the proper placement of cybersecurity tools, sensors, and software within the infrastructure.
• Develop cybersecurity support applications as required and integrate those applications into the cybersecurity support applications infrastructure, including applications that may include dashboard displays allowing management a visual overview of cybersecurity operational status and performance metrics, interfaces with other DHS SOCs, and machine to machine interfaces to increase the level of automation within the cybersecurity infrastructure.
• Develop requirements for cybersecurity support applications including dashboard display, process automation, and interface applications.
• Prototype, develop, test, and implement applications including interface applications for transferring data to other DHS SOCs and ensuring machine to machine communication and interfaces to reach a state of automated processing within SOC operations.
• Utilize application program interfaces (APIs) to develop, test, and implement tool and process automation for integrated toolsets.
• Deploy and integrate applications within the cybersecurity infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements

• At least six (6) years of professional experience in an IT Services environment, providing technical support with emphasis on cybersecurity and DevSecOps.
• U.S. Federal government consulting DevSecOps experience preferred.
• Must be resourceful in learning a very complex and dynamically changing network.
• Must be able to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Past experience within the Department of Homeland Security or other government agency is preferred.
• U.S. citizenship required and eligibility for a DHS EoD is required to be considered for this position.

Education

BA / BS (relevant field); relevant experience may be a substitute for education.

Certifications Required

N/A

Certifications Desired

Certification involving cybersecurity.

DevSecOps related certifications desired: Certified Professional - DevOps Foundation (CP-DOF), Certified Professional (CP) DevSecOps, or Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP).

Software/Hardware Desired

N/A