DevSecOps Engineer

Role: DevSecOps Engineer

Location: ONSITE: The Hague, Netherlands

Contract initially until Dec 2024 but likely to roll on

MUST HAVE: SC / DV or NATO level security clearance

Scope of work

Under the direction / guidance of the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff, the DevSecOps

engineer will support building the ITM RC1 Application Migration team This includes the

following activities:

• Develop containers and Terraform and Ansible scripts for existing applications

• Develop / maintain infrastructure as code for deployment and configuration of infrastructure (VMs, Disks), core services (AD, CA, Exchange etc.), and applications (NATO and Commercial Application)

• Contribute to design and implementation of infrastructure as code and container orchestration services

• Contribute to the design and implementation of an overall DevSecOps capability

• Migrate Virtual Machines legacy payloads

• Implement hardening, compliancy and security scanning

• Create pipelines and self-service solutions for deploying test environments using infrastructure as code

• Participate in entire lifecycle activities – including design, testing, training and documentation

The contractor will be part of a team and will work using an Agile and iterative approach during

multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of 1 week. The content and scope of each

sprint will be agreed during the sprint-planning meeting.

Skills and Experience

The consultancy support for this work requires a software developer with the following

qualifications:

1. The candidate has relevant and recent experience in administrating complex applications

or systems.

2. The candidate has a track record in DevSecOps and has strong problem-solving skills.

3. The candidate has extensive and recent experience with and knowledge of Continuous

integration and delivery, including the following tools and technologies and concepts:

a. Git (mandatory)

b. Ansible (mandatory)

c. Docker (mandatory)

d. Jenkins (mandatory)

e. Terraform/OpenTofu (mandatory)

f. VMWare vSphere (mandatory)

g. Designing and implementing build/deploy pipelines

4. The candidate has extensive and recent experience with and knowledge of Continuous

Operations, including the following tools and technologies and concepts:

a. Kubernetes

b. GitOps

c. Container Registry

5. The candidate has experience with designing and maintaining Sharepoint, SQL Server,

Postgres, Active Directory and Exchange solutions

6. The candidate has relevant and recent experience in using Scrum methodology.

7. The candidate has strong customer relationship skills, including negotiating complex and

sensitive situations under pressure.

8. The candidate is able to speak and write fluent English since the work is conducted in

English.

9. The candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.