Responsibilities
- Lead teams building comprehensive Zero Trust solutions for users, applications, and infrastructure.
- Design secure hybrid architectures with segmentation, identity-based access, workload isolation, secure API communication, and cloud-native Zero Trust controls.
- Coordinate coding, unit testing, software scans, builds, staged deployments, and releases across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
- Lead service delivery across multiple software development lifecycle phases and manage project commitments.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for SecDevOps, CI/CD, rapid release, and end-to-end automation practices.
- Build, configure, administer, operate, and maintain SecDevOps environments and security-embedded build environments.
- Develop and maintain secure AWS and multi-cloud deployments.
- Integrate project products into Zero Trust and SecDevOps environments.
- Document security, configuration management, source control management, release, and build procedures.
- Design, configure, and support software build and deployment pipelines.
- Use Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, and ECR for infrastructure automation and containerized deployments.
- Align cloud security controls with FedRAMP and federal cloud security frameworks and support automated posture validation.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- A bachelor’s degree in a related field is required, with Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred.
- At least 10 years of software development experience is required.
- At least 7 years of combined software development and technical operations support experience is required.
- Deep understanding of credentials, identities, authentication, SSO, applications, workloads, endpoints, networks, data, automation, security analytics, SIEM, SOAR, and threat intelligence is required.
- Experience with monolith and microservice architectures, containerization, and Kubernetes is required.
- Knowledge of CNCF-compliant software stacks and OCI-compliant containers is required.
- Ability to manage projects end to end with minimal supervision is required.
- Expertise in branching, merging, and archiving software throughout the development lifecycle is required.
- Experience managing system changes without user interruption is required.
- Familiarity with Git, Maven, Gradle, npm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and scripting is required or preferred.
- GovCon experience and technical lead experience are preferred.
- Candidates must be willing to undergo a government-issued background investigation.
Benefits
- Remote position
- Competitive pay
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Federal holidays off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development support
- Wellness stipends
About Ardent
For nearly 20 years, Ardent has served this country by delivering award-winning security and defense technology solutions. Our clients' missions range from medical evacuation in overseas theaters to border protection to port security. They trust Ardent to guarantee quality, reliability, and responsiveness. The Ardent Team is the underpinning of our success. Our IT professionals specialize in large-scale situational awareness, geographic visualization, cloud, and information sharing technologies. Ardent inspires its employees to love their jobs. We can help you grow your career by connecting you with our top-notch professionals on challenging projects. We actively mentor and equip our employees to be thought leaders in their fields, and we offer competitive salaries and benefits, including financial rewards for excellence. If you like a fast-paced environment where insights are valued and innovations encouraged, then we want to meet you. Please visit our Career Portal www.ardentmc.com/careers to discover opportunities at Ardent.