Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs.

At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one. We also believe effective teams are powered by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks.  Additionally, we participate in the E-Verify program.

As a Principal DevSecOps Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 10-12 years experience with cloud platform services and DevSecOps practices such as build/release management, CI/CD practices, and process automation. Principal DevSecOps Engineers have a responsibility to supporting large-scale projects, mentoring teams of engineers, being senior thought leaders, and supporting corporate sales, strategy and delivery initiatives. 

You will act as both technical visionary and be responsible for hands-on delivery. Responsibilities include: 

• Establishing development tools and infrastructure for automation 
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers 

• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes 
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results 
• Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components. 
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ 

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended 
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD  
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems 
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor team members 

• Serves senior thought leader in the organization, that contributes to company thought leadership, best practices, and technical strategy 
• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program 
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members. 

Required: 

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• BS Degree
• 10 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) 

• 10 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• 10 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages 
• 10 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment 
• 3 Years of Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 
• 8 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration 

• 8 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI 
• 5 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration 
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines 

Preferred: 

• MS Degree in an IT-related field 

• Certifications: 

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional 
• Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert 
• SAFe DevOps Certification 

• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including Selenium 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills 
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred 
• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby 
• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible 

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.