Junior DevSecOps Engineer

<span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Job Title:</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Junior DevSecOps Engineer</span></span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><b>Company:</b> BLN24<br><br><b>About Us:</b> We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us<br>BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.</span></span><br><br><b><span style="border:none 1pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;padding:0in;"><span style="color:#000000;">Position Overview:</span></span></b></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">BLN24 is seeking a Junior DevSecOps Engineer to support a cloud-native, web-</span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">based modernization of a mission-critical forecasting system. The selected</span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">candidate will help build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, AWS</span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployments for modern micro-frontend and</span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">microservices-based applications.</span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">Tech Stack: React micro-frontends, Python/Node.js microservices, AWS EKS,</span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes</span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">Key Responsibilities:</span></b></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">CI/CD & Automation</span></span></span></span></span><ul><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for micro-frontends and microservices.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Implement automated testing, security scanning, including SAST/DAST, and deployment workflows.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Manage container builds and AWS ECR container registries.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Configure GitOps workflows.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Support blue-green and canary deployment strategies.</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">AWS Cloud Infrastructure</span></span></span></span></span><ul><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Provision cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Manage AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Support auto-scaling, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and multi-region deployments.</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Kubernetes Operations</span></span></span></span></span><ul><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads, including Deployments, StatefulSets, and HPA.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Create and maintain Helm charts for application packaging.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Troubleshoot pod failures, resource constraints, and deployment issues.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Support service mesh configuration, including Istio or Linkerd, as needed.</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Security & Compliance</span></span></span></span></span><ul><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Support FISMA High and FedRAMP Moderate compliance requirements.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Manage IAM policies, Secrets Manager, and KMS encryption.</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Support human-level validations for Gen-AI led test-driven design processes.</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">Required Qualifications:</span></b></span></span></span></span><ul><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">1–2 years of DevOps experience.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">1+ year of AWS experience, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, or EKS.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">1+ year of GitLab CI/CD experience, or comparable experience with GitHub Actions or Jenkins.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or Node.js.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Experience with Terraform or AWS CDK; Terraform preferred.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Linux administration.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Git version control experience.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br> </li></ul><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="border:none 1pt;color:#000000;padding:0in;">Preferred Qualifications:</span></b></span></span></span></span><ul><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">AWS Certifications</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:normal;"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Experience with real-time web applications, WebSocket, or WebGL</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>What BLN24 brings to the Game:</b><br>BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.</span></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area.  We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><i>BLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.</i></span></span></span>

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