Senior Associate Cloud/DevOps Engineer (Public Sector)

Company Description

Publicis Sapient | Public Sector is looking for people who – simply put – are driven to make a difference. 

By solving some of today’s toughest challenges, our teams are helping to transform the government in the areas of business, technology and marketing. Working at Publicis Sapient Public Sector, you will be in an environment that fosters growth and creativity, demands openness and client-focused delivery, and celebrates initiative and innovation. 

The chance to bring your ideas and new thinking to today’s challenges and work in a truly unique work environment is now – it’s at Publicis Sapient | Public Sector. 

Location:  Arlington, VA 

Employee Status: Full-time 

Travel: <5% 

Start Date: Immediately 

Clearance Requirement: Public Trust 

Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a part of a smart cross-functional team delivering digital business transformation solutions to our clients. You’ll have the unique opportunity to increase the engineering team productivity by hunting and solving opportunities within the products of some of the world’s largest brands. You’ll be instrumental in helping our engineering teams to deliver customer features faster by identifying opportunities to automate.

Your Impact:

• Build, test, and administer highly available container application platform clusters (e.g., RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker Datacenter, etc.)
• Champion security by injecting it into the existing development workflow and every stage of software development, ensuring the entire infrastructure is secure
• Identify normal routines and repeatable tasks that are candidates for automation, and then create and support the deployment of automation using Ansible
• Work within complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments
• Assist application teams with onboarding to container application platforms in areas such as resource requirements, capacity analysis, and troubleshooting support
• Azure/AWS provisioning, configuration management, storage management, network management, and virtualization
• Create the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) automation infrastructure to support the project engineering team
• Developing and improving standards for security (via security as code) across a continuous delivery environment and cloud-based production deployments

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• Azure or AWS experience; experiences with Cloud Service continuous delivery systems 
• Significant experience building automated pipelines
• Scriptwriting or application build experience in Python, Ruby, Bash, Java, Javascript, or UNIX shell
• Experience working with container technologies (such as Docker and Kubernetes) 
• End-to-end understanding of CI/CD pipeline and how to assess them from a security point of view
• Experience with both Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing methodologies and tools
• Experience working with container application platform clusters
• Experience with software security, secure coding, or software assurance tools and techniques
• Experience working in an agile environment, such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
• Source control experience (such as GitHub)
• Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team with adjusting priorities and deadlines
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills  

Set Yourself Apart With:

·       Knowledge and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures

·       Demonstrated skill with at least one or more configuration management/scripting technology (such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet)

·       Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (such as Bitbucket, GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Coverity or comparable substitutes), building automatic pipelines

·       Experience with infrastructure as code/orchestration of Cloud infrastructure

Additional Information

About Publicis Sapient | Public Sector 

Publicis Sapient | Public Sector, part of Publicis.Sapient, is a leading provider of strategy, technology, and marketing services to a wide array of U.S. governmental agencies. Focused on driving long-term change and transforming the citizen experience, we use technology to help agencies become more accessible and transparent. With a track record of delivering mission-critical solutions and the ability to leverage commercial best practices, we serve as trusted advisors to government agencies, such as the Federal Bureau o