Lead Zero Trust Engineer

Summary

Join Ardent as a Lead Zero Trust Solutions Architect and contribute to solving complex problems for our Federal Agency clients. This remote position requires collaboration with various teams to design, test, and deliver Zero Trust architectures and SecDevOps solutions. You will lead teams in building comprehensive zero trust solutions, manage project delivery, and serve as a subject matter expert in SecDevOps, CI/CD, and automation. The role demands strong AWS and cloud services experience, along with expertise in infrastructure automation tools and CI/CD pipelines. Ardent offers competitive benefits and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelors degree in related field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred)
• 10+ years of software development experience
• 7+ years of experience in a combination of software development and technical operations support
• Deep understanding of user credentials, identities, authentication, SSO, applications, workloads, endpoints, networks, data, automation, security analytics, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence
• Experience with monolith and micro service architectures using containerization and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of managing polyglot technologies, frameworks and apps
• Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - compliant software stack (Kubernetes) and Open Container Initiative (OCI) Compliant containers (Docker)
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from end to end with minimal supervision
• Expert knowledge of the underlying concepts of Branching, Merging, and Archiving software throughout the development lifecycle
• Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as source control (GIT preferred), build (Maven, Gradle, npm), and automation (Jenkins, Github Actions, scripting)
• 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

• Leads teams with building comprehensive zero trust solutions that encompasses Users, Applications and Infrastructure
• Understanding of the Agile SDLC and how SecDevOps plays a role in it
• Coordinate coding and unit testing phases of system development and efforts
• Manages delivery on all projects and commitments
• Lead and contribute to the service delivery across multiple project phases of the software development life cycle
• Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across SecDevOps, CICD, Rapid Release and related end to end automation
• Good communication skills
• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the SecDevOps environment
• Developing and maintaining secure deployments to AWS and multi-cloud environment and other tasks
• Scripting and maintaining security embedded build environments
• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the Zero Trust, SecDevOps environment
• Strong AWS and other cloud services understanding and experience
• Document, schedule, and executes software scans, builds and deployments
• Document Security, CM, SCM Plans, Releases and Build Procedures
• Production-level experience in Infrastructure Automation using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate
• Design, configure, and support software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, GitLab)
• Assist with software deployment through various staged operating environments (e.g., Development, QA, Staging, Production)
• Scripting and maintaining build environments
• Linux and shell scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• GovCon experience preferred
• Technical lead experience preferred

Benefits

• Highly competitive benefits
• Professional development opportunities
• An exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth