***To be considered for this role, you must be a US Citizen with an active US government security clearance.  Additionally, you must either live near or be willing to move to the Boulder, CO area.***

About Centil

Centil represents the intersection of innovation and trusted expertise required for keeping rapid pace with the dynamic and emergent technological needs of Aerospace, Defense, and Government systems. Our trusted team of engineers excel in deploying value stream management, short-cycle feedback loops, infrastructure on-demand, and secure, disciplined pipelines to our customers. If you are interested in learning more about Centil or our team, check out our website at www.centil.io.

Centil is a talented team of trusted engineers working to provide optimized and effective technology value streams for defense industry clients. We believe in a culture of innovation, empowerment and collaboration. We place a high value on learning and growth, providing ongoing support to our team to learn new skills and become fulfilled in both their personal and professional life.

Centil is hiring exceptional individuals to join our growing team. We look for candidates who are inspired and passionate, highly collaborative, and who demonstrate the courage to challenge the status quo with forward thinking ideas and practices. We also seek out individuals who demonstrate servant leadership by supporting their colleagues with a sense of positivity, humility and open mindedness.

About the role

This position is for a DevSecOps Engineer in Boulder, CO. You will be working closely with a team of talented engineers to manage integration, security scanning, and deployment of multiple applications into orchestrated frameworks. You will also have the opportunity to grow and sharpen your skills with other talented members of Centil. The candidate who will be successful in this role should have a strong experience designing and developing application container deployment solutions using Docker, docker-compose, and Kubernetes.

This position is expected to be fully onsite at a work location in Boulder.

What you'll do

• Manage integration, security scanning, and deployment of multiple applications into orchestrated frameworks
• Work with deployment teams to orchestrate deployments to development, test, and operational environments
• Create and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines in gitlab-ci
• Monitor CI pipelines for performance and resolve observed or reported issues
• Integrate CI pipelines with development tools for artifact management, software test and software quality assessment
• Implement Continuous Delivery and execute automated or manual deployments of applications into orchestrated k8s environments
• Provide troubleshooting for deployed applications within development and production environments
• Execute software release processes including release branch creation, integration, checkout and test
• Implement and maintain Helm charts
• Ensure cybersecurity protocols are adhered to

Required Qualifications

• Current Secret security clearance or higher
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience building and supporting DevOps or DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with containerized deployments using Docker, docker compose, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Amazon EKS and service mesh and monitoring tools including Istio, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Proven ability to manage development, test, and production environments
• Experience with authentication platforms such as Keycloak
• 1+ year of experience with Python and Linux systems
• Ability to work 100% onsite in Boulder

Preferred/Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in software vulnerability scanning, assessment, and remediation using SAST and DAST tools such as SonarQube
• Proficient in artifact management with JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, or similar tools
• Development experience in Python and C++
• Experience with container security tools including Grype and Syft
• Skilled in Git version control and Linux system administration, including support of CI/CD tools such as GitLab

Other Company Requirements

In addition to job-specific requirements, Centil believes it is important for all employees to possess the following skills/characteristics:

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.  Ability to passionately deliver high-level messaging to various types of audiences--this will eventually include senior leaders.  Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical personnel
• Self-motivated individual who actively and independently seeks out opportunities for learning and development
• Collaborates well; enjoys working as part of a team
• DoD Secret or higher clearance is preferred.  All applicants must be US citizens eligible for a US Government security clearance

Expected Salary Range

Depending on experience and skillset, most candidates will earn between $100,000 and $135,000 per year.

Please note that the salary range is a general guideline only. We consider many factors when determining salaries including, but are not limited to, scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education, training, certifications, key skills, and mission/customer familiarity. We combine these factors with market and business considerations to extend a job offer.

Benefits

Centil offers a comprehensive benefits package including the following:

• Generous PTO for vacation, personal, or sick days
• Ten (10) paid holidays per year: 8 fixed holidays, plus 2 additional Floating Holidays per year (taken at Employee's discretion)
• Flex time and the ability to create your own schedule
• Discretionary bi-annual bonus plan, based on individual and company performance
• 401K retirement plan with immediately vested company contributions, no matching required
• Healthcare coverage plan through an Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA)
• Employer-paid Life, Long-Term Disability, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurances
• Access to optional, employee-paid Life, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity insurances
• Access to a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Paid training and conference attendance
• Additional benefits, as needed, for significant life events: parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty pay, military leave pay
• One-time home office reimbursement
• Phone plan reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services, supporting emotional health and well-being of employees and their families

Centil is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.