DevSecOps Engineer, Assoc

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Requisition ID :16132

Employment Type : Full Time

Job Category : Digital / IT

Work Location : Melville, NY (CSC)

State or Province : New York (US-NY)

Potential Work Location :

BRIEF POSITION SUMMARY:

The position of Associate DevSecOps Engineer is a critical part of MSC’s digital organization. This position will provide DevSecOps solutions for MSC’s e-commerce team, helping them towards successful agile software delivery. This position will work independently and collaboratively with MSC’s pod-based agile software engineering teams. The DevSecOps Engineer oversees platforms for software engineering productivity, monitoring, observability, cloud architecture, and release CI/CD. This position will help drive solution-level continuous improvement and best-practices for agile software delivery. The DevSecOps Engineer is accountable for ensuring adherence to CyberSecurity best practices, code quality standards, and software delivery processes.

Utilizing a palette of existing software frameworks, custom and best of breed systems and hybrid cloud infrastructure, there will be opportunity to create solutions that add business value and create competitive advantage for MSC. This position is expected to push internal IT and business areas to deliver best in class solutions that are incompliance with our architectures and standards. This position will also provide feedback to Solution Architects so that architectures and standards are continually progressing and advancing.

As a DevSecOps Engineer at MSC you will work in a team environment to develop innovative solutions to complex business problems. Utilizing R&D, rapid prototyping, and other collaborative development techniques you will create solutions that add business value and create competitive advantage for MSC. You will have the opportunity to apply your development skills in a challenging and dynamic environment utilizing leading languages and technologies.

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in and at times leads the end-to-end solution design effort, decomposing problems into their simplest forms, applying the right technologies to craft systems that will perform and scale while meeting the business requirements.
• Works with observability tools and processes for monitoring and alerting. Works in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering to optimize and ensure solid site coverage.
• Works with Software Engineering leads to create optimal software delivery processes. This includes Jira workflows and best practices, Jenkins pipeline optimization, code review processes, code quality standards, and unit testing requirements.
• Reviews metrics for software delivery processes to ensure adherence to best practices for code quality, security, and delivery.
• Works with cloud tools and processes for software delivery.
• Performs PoCs and MVPs of additional DevSecOps tools and processes that may help improve overall team execution.
• Stays up to date with industry best practices for DevSecOps, secure coding, application-level CyberSecurity, observability, cloud software delivery, IaC, etc.
• Works with pod teams to improve the implementation DevSecOps tools and processes.
• Supports organizational commitment to continuous improvement and continuous learning.
• Empower teams to be independent, automated, and responsible when executing on their product backlog.
• Keeps current with new technology and techniques for solving business problems
• Understands the business and act like an owner. MSC’s success is your success and technology is an integral part of driving growth, efficiency and competitive advantage.
• Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC’s vision and unity of purpose.
• Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required.

INDICATES ESSENTIAL DUTIES

To perform this job successfully an associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, experience level and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:

• Degree in computer science or related discipline or equivalent experience is required.
• Internship and/or course work in software engineering or DevSecOps.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Familiarity with information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming and functional programming concepts with knowledge of an object-oriented programming language such as Java and JavaScript required.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms
• Knowledge of Cloud resources and services like Networking, Load Balancing, VMs, Containers, Caching, Health Checks, WAFs, Storage, etc
• Strong technical aptitude

COMPETENCIES:

• Demonstrates ability to understand the business with effective and timely communications with business partners. Understands the audience and tailor the message to the audience. Demonstrates good communication by listening to all sides of the story. Move the ball forward by leveraging your internal networks.
• Be a self-starter by seizing new opportunities, stepping up and handling tough issues and showing a can-do attitude in good times and bad. Energize and engage the team by leading by example.
• Thinks creatively, has high standards and sets aggressive goals. Pursues everything with energy and focus on obtaining set goals. Pushes through setbacks to achieve objectives and demonstrates a track record of exceeding goals. Demonstrate leadership by pushing yourself and others to achieve more.
• Connects and works collaboratively with others within and outside the organization. Demonstrates leadership while working collaboratively. Gains the trust of peers while collaborating on objectives.
• Takes on new assignments in or outside of the workgroup. Manages multiple and interdependent work streams in a controlled and disciplined manner.
• Learns and improves by adapting to changing business needs and accepting feedback. Identifies improvement opportunities and coaches others to improve their performance.
• Be empowered by working through ambiguity to successfully develop great business solutions. Demonstrates technical leadership by getting to the why of the problem. Makes sound decisions in absence of solid information. Shows wisdom and judgement by considering all relevant factors and work to the best solution not necessarily a perfect solution. Demonstrates that you understand the 80/20 rule and when it should be applied.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• A valid driver’s license and the ability to travel up to 10% of the time are required.

Why MSC
People. Collaboration. Insight. That’s how you build something that works.

Built on a foundation of trust, MSC works side by side with our customers to help them drive business results. With more than one million product offerings and 75+ years of experience across industries, MSC strives to help our customers achieve greater productivity, profitability, and growth through inventory management and other innovative supply chain solutions. We care about our associates and have programs in place to help our 6,500+ team members achieve their potential. When you join our team, you will receive rewards and recognition for your contributions, training and professional development opportunities, as well as a variety of benefits to support you and your family's health, well-being, and financial future. If you are inspired to learn, take risks, and succeed as a team, you can build a better career at MSC. Equal Opportunity Statement
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