DevOps Platform Engineer

Overview

DecisionPoint is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Operations team. The team maintains AWS cloud environments, supports a DevSecOps platform, and deploys applications for the Small Application Support team. Maintains the ARTRANS Cloud Services cloud environments and DevSecOps ecosystem. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps principles, automation, and a deep understanding of GitOps workflows.

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This position is 100% remote work and requires an active Secret clearance.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI from code commit to production deployment.
• Implement and manage GitOps workflows for continuous delivery to RKE2 clusters using ArgoCD, ensuring the cluster state always reflects the Git repository.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline the software development lifecycle, reduce manual intervention, and improve developer productivity.
• Integrate security best practices and automated testing (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) into the CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and security compliance.
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team to manage and provision environments using IaC principles and tools like Terraform.
• Act as a subject matter expert on CI/CD, providing guidance and support to development teams on best practices for building, testing, and deploying their applications.
• Monitor the health and performance of the CI/CD infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and continuously optimize pipeline efficiency and reliability.
• Update and maintain the organizations DevSecOps (DSO) software. Software includes GitLab, Grafana, RKE2, Prisma, and AWS
• Perform updates to an AWS development environment that includes GitLab and various AWS services
• Maintain SSL certificates for DevSecOps software.
• Performs root cause analysis, diagnostics, and monitoring on various production and non-production cloud systems
• Provides incident response and service outage resolution for cloud systems

Other Tasks:

• Develops Gitlab projects that enable software delivery, security scanning, secrets management, policy-as-code, and compliance automation
• Deploy .Net/Java applications using DevSecOps platform to all Cloud Environments
• Remediate applications scan results using DevSecOps scanning tools
• Maintain and update application secrets
• Maintain SSL certificates for application software.
• Deploy updated baseline container images within 7 days of a released update
• Monitoring overall site availability, latency and system health for applications within AWS

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience or 8 years' experience in in a DevOps, SRE, or a similar role with a focus on CI/CD
• Expert-level knowledge of Git, including branching strategies and workflows
• Proven experience implementing and managing GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Deep understanding of containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes orchestration
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Go
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform
• DOD 8140 certification: IAT Level II or better (e.g., Security+ CE)

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.