Lead Zero Trust Engineer

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being 'All In' for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Lead Zero Trust Engineer to join our team.  

This is a Remote position.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Lead Zero Trust Engineer to support an innovative Federal Agency that can collaborate with Product owners, developers, cloud engineers and operations support personnel to plan, design, test and deliver Zero Trust (ZT) Architectures and SecDevOps solutions for cloud systems, applications and infrastructure delivery using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines embedded with ZT principles. 

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Leads teams with building comprehensive zero trust solutions that encompasses Users, Applications and Infrastructure

• Understanding of the Agile SDLC and how SecDevOps plays a role in it 

• Coordinate coding and unit testing phases of system development and efforts

• Manages delivery on all projects and commitments

• Lead and contribute to the service delivery across multiple project phases of the software development life cycle

• Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across SecDevOps, CICD, Rapid Release and related end to end automation

• Good communication skills

• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the SecDevOps environment 

• Developing and maintaining secure deployments to AWS and multi-cloud environment and other tasks 

• Scripting and maintaining security embedded build environments 

• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the Zero Trust, SecDevOps environment 

• Strong AWS and other cloud services understanding and experience 

• Document, schedule, and executes software scans, builds and deployments. 

• Document Security, CM, SCM Plans, Releases and Build Procedures 

• Production-level experience in Infrastructure Automation using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate

• Design, configure, and support software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, GitLab) 

• Assist with software deployment through various staged operating environments (e.g., Development, QA, Staging, Production) 

• Scripting and maintaining build environments

• Linux and shell scripting 

Requirements: 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Bachelors degree in related field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred). 

• 10+ years of software development experience.

• 7+ years of experience in a combination of software development and technical operations support.

• Deep understanding of user credentials, identities, authentication, SSO, applications, workloads, endpoints, networks, data, automation, security analytics, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence.

• Experience with monolith and micro service architectures using containerization and Kubernetes.

• Solid understanding of managing polyglot technologies, frameworks and apps.

• Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - compliant software stack (Kubernetes) and Open Container Initiative (OCI) Compliant containers (Docker).

• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from end to end with minimal supervision.

• Expert knowledge of the underlying concepts of Branching, Merging, and Archiving software throughout the development lifecycle. 

• Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user.

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as source control (GIT preferred), build (Maven, Gradle, npm), and automation (Jenkins, Github Actions, scripting). 

• GovCon experience preferred.

• Technical lead experience preferred.

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.