Summary
Join Ardent as a DevOps Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining enterprise-grade tools used by thousands across the organization. This remote position blends technical expertise in software development, cloud platforms, and DevSecOps with strong leadership and communication skills. You will leverage your experience in the full software development lifecycle, CI/CD automation, containerized application deployment, and enterprise-level security practices. The role demands both independent productivity and agile team collaboration in a dynamic and security-conscious environment. Ardent offers competitive benefits, professional development, and a flexible culture. Make a difference with us!
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship
- 5+ years of software development experience, including full Software Development Lifecycle, full stack applications, service-oriented architectures (micro-services), continuous integration and continuous delivery. Experience must also include containerized applications and cloud platforms
- Solid experience writing unit, integration, and end to end tests
- Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating a variety of DevSecOps tools and technologies including Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Jira, Artifactory, Terraform, SonarQube, Prisma Cloud or similar and related technologies
- Must be able to work well remotely, but in an agile development environment with frequent collaboration and dynamic requirements
- BA or BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics
- Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process
Responsibilities
- Application development using technologies like Next.js and React, Angular, Java Spring, and Ruby on Rails
- Setting up, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines for the various tools the team develops using Jenkins, Groovy, Docker, and various plugins and security scanning tools
- Deploying containerized applications to AWS EKS while providing monitoring and alerting via New Relic, Splunk, and other tools
- Developing, hardening, and sharing Docker images for use throughout the enterprise
- Researching and implementing Zero Trust architectures and strategies for our team and the enterprise
- Continuously improving our technologies and processes across our team and the enterprise within the unique constraints our customers require
- Understanding and improving security practices throughout the SDLC, including key management, security scanning, immutable workloads, code quality, etc
- Leading, communicating , and collaborating across functional borders
- Effectively present analysis, findings, and strategies to teammates and customers
- Expressing technical information clearly at different organizational levels
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing React and Angular web applications
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience developing APIs that will be shared and used by other applications/teams and documenting those APIs according to the Open API spec
- Experience with setting up Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright and developing e2e test suites
- Experience with "Infrastructure as Code" tools and techniques, with hands on experience setting up and tearing down environments in support of the CI/CD pipeline
- Worked with various AWS platforms, including IAM, EKS, RDS, S3, and EC2
- Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user
- Knowledge of Zero Trust strategies and implementation of tools and techniques to achieve Zero Trust goals
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with security automation and machine learning
- Experience using a wide variety of open source and COTS technologies and tools
Benefits
- Highly competitive benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible
- Remote work
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