OverviewUNITED STATES CITIZENMUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE100% ONSITE - WASHINGTON, DCNO THIRD PARTY VENDORSSalary range is ___ BUT dependent upon the candidate's skills, experience, education and certifications. Soft Tech offers competitive BENEFITS in the areas of: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, PTO, and Paid HolidaysSoft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a
DevSecOps Engineer, who will maintain multiple client-managed cloud application stacks (Tomcat, Drupal, React, Node.js, Nginx, etc.) running as Linux containers on Amazon ECS clusters and support the IaC (AWS Cloudformation) and functional CI/CD Gitlab runner pipelines. Should have a foundational multi-tier architectural knowledge, deployment, and maintenance, and a have foundational knowledge of AWS cloud engineering. This role requires experience in building and supporting container applications running Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Drupal, and Node.js, supporting the remediation of security vulnerabilities, supporting and managing PKI certs, and basic REST and SOAP API integration experience.
Responsibilities- Maintain multiple client-managed cloud application stacks (Tomcat, Drupal, React, Node.js, Nginx, etc.) running as Linux containers on Amazon ECS clusters and support the IaC (AWS Cloudformation) and functional CI/CD Gitlab runner pipelines.
- Build and maintain Linux-based Docker Containers (Advanced proficiency level)
- Develop and maintain IaC using Cloudformation (Intermediate proficiency level)
Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Should have a foundational multi-tier architectural knowledge, deployment, and maintenance, and a have foundational knowledge of AWS cloud engineering.
- Requires experience in building and supporting container applications running Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Drupal, and Node.js, supporting the remediation of security vulnerabilities, supporting and managing PKI certs, and basic REST and SOAP API integration experience.
- AWS Cloud engineering skills with ECS and/or EKS experience (Advanced proficiency level)
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools (Advanced proficiency level)
- Experience with SSL/TLS certificate and PKI management (Advanced proficiency level)
- AI Code Assist (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) (Intermediate proficiency level)
- Tomcat, Drupal, Nginx, Node.js administration and deployment (Intermediate proficiency level)
- Git (Intermediate proficiency level)
- Linux (Intermediate proficiency level)
- Ability to read application and system logs and perform basic troubleshooting (Intermediate proficiency level)
- REST and SOAP API Integration experience (Intermediate proficiency level)
- Basic scripting experience with Bash, Python, or PowerShell (Intermediate proficiency level)
- Basic understanding of relational databases and SQL (Beginner proficiency level)
- Container vulnerability and security remediations (Beginner proficiency level)
- AWS Cloud Operations (Advanced)
- Infrastructure AS Code (IaC) (Advanced)
- Docker Container (Advanced)
- Certificate Management Implementation (SSL/TLS)
- AI Code Assist (Claude Code, Codex, etc.(Intermediate)
- Able to work with minimal supervision with little to no oversight
- Excellent interpersonal/communication and written skills
PREFERRED:- AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification
