DevSecOps Engineer - Remote (WFH)

The DevSecOps Engineer Security Specialist position is part of the Acquisition and Property Management (APM) Space Management Support System (SMSS) team within the Acquisition and Property Management (APM) portfolio in support of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Consolidated Corporate Support Services (CCSS) program.

Space Management Support System (SMSS) consists of two web applications built on top of ArcGIS enterprise.  The minor application is ESRI’s ArcGIS, a web-based Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) application.  The second application is the Rent/Lease application built with the Microsoft .Net framework and supporting technologies.  SMSS is used by the VA Office of Administration to assign workspaces to all Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) tenants.  The system generates reports of space availability and costs to provide workspace for VACO.  This system is also used to import the facility leases and generate reports and invoices.  The minor application, ESRI’s ArcGIS, is hosted at a VA data center and is used by the staff to allocate resources for SMSS.  It is designed to deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for the department.  It is also used for mapping, analysis, and as a data storage system that can be used to create, share, and manage maps, scenes, layers, apps, and other geographic content. 

Duties:

• Delivery in an Agile, Lean, SAFe-based environment utilizing DevSecOps, ARTs, CI/CD, and related processes, methodologies, and concepts.
• Demonstrate your experience with Source Control Management tools.
• Create, maintain, and manage fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments.
• Writing build and deployment scripts.
• Support CI/CD tools integration/ operations/ change management, and maintenance.
• Support full automation of CI/Testing.
• Support policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
• Train and support developers from source control, through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies.
• Setup, manage, and maintain the continuous build/continuous integration infrastructure used by the application.  
• Partner with engineering and product managers to ensure business requirements are supported by corresponding technical requirements and infrastructure.
• Implement big visible charts to graphically present key metrics and measures that keep teams focused on what needs their attention and to promote transparency.  
• Routinely stress test systems to expose weakness in both infrastructure and applications.
• Enable successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production.
• Manage and maintain the security infrastructure required for deploying secure, scalable and reliable applications, while routinely conducting preventive and adaptive maintenance to increase security, performance, and reliability.
• Object Oriented Programming within a delivery team, as well as worked on a DevOps team that supported a set of engineers.
• Experience of software development processes and code management tools and processes.
• Knowledge of DevOps Engineering Processes and Operations & Management (O&M).
• Ability to conduct in-depth triage, troubleshooting, and forensics across all facets of the cloud stack while executing process corrective action and continual service improvement.

• For VA’s Acquisition and Property Management Product Line:
  1. Space Management Support System (SMSS):
     1. Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server 
     2. Microsoft .NET Framework
     3. Arc Geographic Information System (ArcGIS Enterprise)
     4. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for the Microsoft Office Suite of Products
     5. Windows Secure Copy Protocol (WinSCP)
     6. Microsoft Windows Server Operating System 
     7. Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, electronics engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline is required.

• 5 years minimum experience in a similar role/capacity.
• 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.
• Ability to obtain a VA Position of Public Trust – Medium Background Investigation (MBI).