Summary
DevSecOps Engineer required by my client in the financial services arena to work in a brand-new and exciting entity that they are building out. You will be assisting and working on building out the platform whilst maintaining the core infrastructure, complete regular testing and be part of the new IT department for this entity. You will also design and own product development for the technology platform including Broker integrations. Initially you will be the main resource managing the platform. You will be required to build and maintain their CI/CD pipeline. You will also automate all the testing processes and ensure safe deployments to the production environment. You will manage the infrastructure and periodically audit the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) setup created initially by a third party supplier. You will configure security policies and manage security components, e.g. identity management systems (Google Identity Platform and IAM), vulnerability scanning (Google Container Registry), event/threat monitoring (Google Stackdriver)
Baseline
Hard Skills
- Very strong in-depth hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, including EC2, IAM, Load Balancers, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, KMS, API Gateway, Elasticsearch, GuardDuty and Inspector
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos or other Docker orchestration offerings
- Designing, implementing, and supporting service provider (xSP, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, MBaaS, etc.) environments
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins or similar CI tooling
- Configuration management software (Chef) and Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Scripting in Python, Bash or similar
- Cisco ASA and virtual appliance experience a plus
- Strong understanding of security solutions or activities such as: IDS/IPS solutions, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Malware and AntiVirus detection and prevention tools, Static, Dynamic and Interactive security assessment solutions, Working knowledge of Penetration Test tooling and external Penetration Test offerings, Implement safeguards for network security including perimeter and lateral movement
Soft Skills
- Working in a fast-paced 24/7 operations shop - responding to and identifying potential and active issues and determining a course of action
- Keep up-to-date with current programming tools and practices
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
Certification
Job Salary
Asia
$57K <= $65K <= $78K
Africa
$31K <= $39K <= $53K
North America
$78K <= $140K <= $205K
South America
$30K <= $46K <= $61K
Europe
£58,624 <= £62,999 <= £78,499
Oceania
AU$67K <= AU$91,990 <= AU$126K
Interview Questions
- https://dzone.com/articles/10-devops-interview-questions-to-gauge-a-candidate
- https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/devops-tutorial/devops-interview-questions
Training Resources