DevSecOps Consultant - Sales
from DMV areas
Pay rate: Market/Flexible
Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced DevSecOps Consultant-Sales with a strategic mindset, strong communication skills, and the ability to articulate visionary ideas to executive leadership. This role requires a forward-thinking individual who can present futuristic solutions and sell the products developed by our DevSecOps Engineers. The DevSecOps Consultant will be instrumental in leading the transformation of development, security, and operations by implementing innovative CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform standardization. You will be responsible for unifying processes across the entire Agency, maximizing cloud infrastructure efficiency, and driving modernization efforts that align with the long-term goals of the enterprise.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Lead and provide senior-level management for the DevSecOps platform, aligning its goals with Agency’s enterprise strategy. Engage with executive leadership to present and advocate for innovative DevSecOps solutions and futuristic platform capabilities.
- Visionary Communication: Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including executives. Present DevSecOps products and solutions developed by the technical team in a compelling and value-driven manner.
- Platform Management: Oversee platform tenancy management, ensuring effective coordination across delivery teams to achieve successful implementation, integration, and maintenance of DevSecOps tools and pipelines.
- DevSecOps Automation: Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automation strategies, and tools for containers, compiled software, and scripts. Lead efforts to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Everything as Code (EaC), and automated testing throughout the pipeline.
- Cloud and Infrastructure Optimization: Evaluate, recommend, and implement enhancements within IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environments (AWS, Azure), focusing on performance, security, and cost-efficiency. Identify opportunities to optimize application performance and introduce new technologies.
- Process Unification: Unify and automate processes that support software development, deployment, and application management across Agency’s infrastructure. Standardize best practices for the development lifecycle, tools, and platforms.
- Architecture Leadership: Participate in major design and architectural decisions, collaborating with technical architects to craft solutions that integrate with existing infrastructure while prioritizing security and scalability.
- Solution Development: Identify opportunities for platform-based solutions that help users meet complex challenges. Develop business cases and support decision-making for adopting new technologies and tools.
- Governance and Standards: Set and maintain long-term strategies and roadmaps for platform standardization, modernization, and the adoption of DevSecOps practices. Ensure alignment with Agency’s security requirements, policies, and compliance standards.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work actively with development teams to streamline operations, bring consistency in DevSecOps processes, and introduce best practices across the ecosystem.
- Marketplace Integration: Identify marketplace plugins or custom solutions to meet specific needs within the DevSecOps ecosystem.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 12+ years of experience in IT development.
- 7+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices and tools in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environments, particularly in AWS and Azure, with strong security considerations.
- 5+ years of experience with CI/CD best practices, including automated builds, testing, quality gates, and the use of CI tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- 2+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Technical Expertise:
- Strong experience with version control and configuration management tools like Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and others.
- Proven understanding of branching strategies, gated commits, and source-controlled management.
- Proficiency in Agile/SAFe methodologies and related certifications or equivalent experience.
- Experience with security coding standards, and static/dynamic security scanning tools like SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity, etc.
- Expertise in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, Shell, Ruby, etc.
- Experience with DevSecOps tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and artifact repositories.
- Soft Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively.
- Proven ability to present to and influence executive leadership.
- Visionary thinking with the ability to generate and sell forward-looking solutions.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering innovative solutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of Everything as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
- Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with cloud orchestration platforms and services.
- Demonstrated ability to drive automation strategies that increase operational efficiencies across large-scale organizations.