Cloud DevSecOps Engineer

About the role

The Cloud DevSecOps Engineer contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy at Regions. The role involves developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud CI/CD pipelines, working closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines supporting DevSecOps best practices.

Responsibilities

• Partners with other engineers and IT staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines.
• Articulates business needs and translates them into technology solutions.
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments, including automation of all infrastructure, services, and application build and deployment.
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices, including automated tests and infrastructure tests.
• Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback.
• Completes project work and contributes to the technical direction of various objectives.
• Automates operational activities and tasks.
• Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms.
• Buils tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences.
• Aids in troubleshooting of production issues and ensures pipeline and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics enabling Root Cause Analysis.
• Develops and tests Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts, and establishes immutable infrastructure to eliminate patches.
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules, and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology.
• Six (6) years of relevant DevSecOps experience.
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification.
• Experience in building/deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment.
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies.
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault.
• Familiarity with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
• Familiarity with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Must be comfortable developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, Ansible Playbooks.

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance.
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps.
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services.
• Proficient in Python programming language.
• Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow.
• Experience building self-serviced, reusable DevSecOps Patterns.
• Experience setting up self-service Day 0/Day 1 automation within Internal Developer Portal.