Soft Tech Consulting

Overview:

UNITED STATES CITIZEN

MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE

100% ONSITE - WASHINGTON, DC

NO THIRD PARTY VENDORS

Salary 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 Holidays

Soft 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

About Us:

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned small business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.