Responsibilities
- Lead teams building comprehensive Zero Trust solutions for users, applications, and infrastructure.
- Design secure hybrid architectures integrating segmentation, identity-based access, workload isolation, and secure API communication.
- Align cloud-native security controls with enterprise Zero Trust policies and support FedRAMP and federal cloud security compliance.
- Manage, build, configure, administer, operate, and maintain SecDevOps environments.
- Develop and maintain secure AWS and multi-cloud deployments and integrate project products into Zero Trust environments.
- Lead service delivery across software development lifecycle phases and manage project commitments.
- Design, configure, and support software build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and GitLab.
- Use infrastructure automation with Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate.
- Script and maintain security-embedded software build environments using Linux and shell scripting.
- Document, schedule, and execute software scans, builds, deployments, security plans, configuration-management plans, source-control-management plans, releases, and build procedures.
- Support software deployments across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
- Coordinate coding and unit-testing phases and apply SecDevOps, continuous delivery, rapid release, and end-to-end automation best practices.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- A bachelor’s degree in a related field is required; Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management is 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 using containerization and Kubernetes is required.
- Understanding of polyglot technologies, frameworks, applications, CNCF-compliant software stacks, and OCI-compliant containers is required.
- Experience managing 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 interrupting users is required.
- Familiarity with source control, build, and automation tools such as Git, Maven, Gradle, npm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and scripting is required.
- GovCon experience and technical lead experience are preferred.
- Candidates must be willing to undergo a government-issued background investigation.
Benefits
- Remote position.
- Highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, flexible work environment, and career growth opportunities.
- U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must be willing to undergo a government-issued background investigation.
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.