DevSecOps Engineer

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI / ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future. We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success. Credence has an immediate need for a DevSecOps Engineer to support the U-2 Airframe Forecasting Dashboard. We are supporting the Air Force by developing a forecasting dashboard powered by AI. This will be delivered initially as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in IL-2, with plans to scale to IL-4 in AWS. The product will feature chatbots, dashboards, alerts / notifications, and reports, focusing on demand forecasting, inventory and stock issues, maintenance tracking, and data analysis. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below Understand and remediate complex issues and topologies of large enterprises Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, and modules Define and setup the process for managing Ops developed playbooks Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support. Auto configuration of standalone or cluster for middleware and database infrastructures, including the provisioning of Middleware and Database components after system builds. Generate auto start / stop scripts, auto registration to load balancers, creation / cloning of database schemas using Ansible. Generalize the ops playbooks for other environments and feedback / handover to the Platform Solutions team (where appropriate). Provide advice and recommendation to improve the standards and policies (naming and organization conventions, etc) for the platform environment. Provide technical support to IT ops around automation solution usage Provide assistant to the DevOps team to develop, configure and administer overall DevOps and IT automation solutions. AWS GovCloud Architecture & Management : Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and compliant AWS GovCloud environments for DoD applications. Security & Compliance : Ensure adherence to DoD cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, RMF, FedRAMP, Zero Trust). Implement STIGs, security baselines, and automated security scanning (SAST / DAST). Infrastructure as Code (IaC) : Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible. Containerization & Orchestration : Deploy and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters in AWS GovCloud, leveraging services like Amazon EKS, ECS Requirements Ability to obtain a security clearance is required. At least four (4) years of experience using Ansible for DevOps Development with cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures. Strong experience with Ansible Playbook development and Ansible CLI deployment. Advanced-level scripting in Bash. Log shipping application logs to Splunk and AWS Cloud watch Expert level RHEL 8, using cloud-init for provisioning. At least 3 years of experience administrating Kubernetes and creating deployments yaml (any flavor, but prefer EKS) Excellent working knowledge of Jenkins, Git Expertise implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline in Jenkins using Declarative Pipeline language Knowledge required to build and manage Dockerfile to be deployed on Kubernetes deployments. Experienced with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment. Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment Please join us, as together we build a better world one mission at a time powered by Technology and its People!