Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

This role will focus on leading efforts for designing and building well-architected solutions for deploying, securing, and maintaining new and existing applications, services, and infrastructure for managed appliances and cloud platforms. This role will coordinate closely with other functional teams to ensure smooth, efficient, and predictable delivery of engineering output. Candidates should be familiar with current cloud and containerization technologies, system architectures, CI/CD pipeline toolchains, automation tools and technologies, and have the leadership abilities necessary to successfully manage large, complex projects. This candidate must be able to support engineering teams across the organization in their efforts to produce resilient cloud and containerized solutions.

 KEY DUTIES

• •Lead strategy discussions, decisions, and implementation for cloud infrastructure design.
• •Determine ideal approaches for cloud and containerized solutions, custom tailored for the specific needs our services and applications
• •Provide expert level analysis and resolution guidance for escalated DevSecOps issues
• •Participate in 24/7 support as part of an on-call rotation team that responds to after-hours infrastructure alerts
• •Continuously improve the efficacy of logging, monitoring, and alerting for services, applications, and infrastructure in order to achieve high levels of performance, scalability, availability, and reliability
• •Work with stakeholders to design and refine critical cloud policies related to Security, Service Level Agreements, Disaster Recovery, Shared Responsibility, Acceptable Use, Data Retention, and other associated concerns
• •Design and document software engineering and CI/CD best practices; lead standards alignment across multiple engineering teams
• •Coordinate and plan ongoing operations with other team members
• •Work without supervision on complex projects with extensive latitude for independent judgment
• •Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to a broad range of stakeholders
• •Act as a technical resource and mentor to less experienced peers
• •Actively participate in and occasionally lead Agile ceremonies
• •Other duties as assigned



 QUALIFICATIONS

• •Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or similar IT related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• •Expert knowledge of DevOps, CloudOps, and/or containerization concepts and tooling
• •Strong demonstrated systems, cloud, and container administration and troubleshooting experience
• •Extensive knowledge of cloud and/or containerization toolchains with ability to implement best practices
• •Extensive knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines and software engineering tooling including Jenkins or other build server tooling, git, Jira, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• •Deep and broad knowledge of security, networking, and identity management concepts
• •Proven leadership as a project manager or as a subject matter expert
• •Coordinate project activities of co-located and remote team members
• •Truly superb verbal and written communication skills
• •Presentation and mentoring skills
• •Typically requires at least 15 years of experience

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