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 Senior Security Software Developer to join our team.  

This is a remote position. 

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Senior Security Software Developer to join our team. Your responsibilities encompass integrating security practices seamlessly throughout the development and deployment processes. Your focus will be around automating security measures, ensuring they're ingrained in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment pipelines. 

Requirements:

  • 7 years of software development experience, including full Software Development Lifecycle, full stack applications, service-oriented architectures (micro-services), continuous integration and continuous delivery.  Experience must also include containerized applications and cloud platforms.
  • Solid experience writing unit, integration, and end to end tests.
  • Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating a variety of DevSecOps tools and technologies including Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Jira, Artifactory, Terraform, SonarQube, Prisma Cloud or similar and related technologies.
  • Must be able to work well remotely, but in an agile development environment with frequent collaboration and dynamic requirements.
  • BA or BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience developing React and Angular web applications.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails.
  • Experience developing APIs that will be shared and used by other applications/teams and documenting those APIs according to the Open API spec.
  • Experience with setting up Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright and developing e2e test suites.
  • Experience with "Infrastructure as Code" tools and techniques, with hands on experience setting up and tearing down environments in support of the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Worked with various AWS platforms, including IAM, EKS, RDS, S3, and EC2.
  • Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user.
  • Knowledge of Zero Trust strategies and implementation of tools and techniques to achieve Zero Trust goals .
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with security automation and machine learning.
  • Experience using a wide variety of open source and COTS technologies and tools

Job Responsibilities: 

DevSecOps as well as software development.  We develop enterprise grade, production ready tools with thousands of users that we've either developed from scratch or have inherited and are actively improving upon and sharing with the enterprise.  We also manage our own set of CI/CD pipelines that we are continuously improving to increase security, quality, and efficiency.  Our tools and processes are shared across the enterprise as examples and thus need to be at very high standards.  The position requires a candidate that can be productive while working independently; able to communicate effectively with the rest of the team, plan and prioritize work, research various topics and present relevant findings, and contribute high quality production ready code.

Some of the job responsibilities include:

  • Application development using technologies like Next.js and React, Angular, Java Spring, and Ruby on Rails.
  • Setting up, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines for the various tools the team develops using Jenkins, Groovy, Docker, and various plugins and security scanning tools.
  • Deploying containerized applications to AWS EKS while providing monitoring and alerting via New Relic, Splunk, and other tools.
  • Developing, hardening, and sharing Docker images for use throughout the enterprise.
  • Researching and implementing Zero Trust architectures and strategies for our team and the enterprise.
  • Continuously improving our technologies and processes across our team and the enterprise within the unique constraints our customers require.
  • Understanding and improving security practices throughout the SDLC, including key management, security scanning, immutable workloads, code quality, etc.
  • Leading, communicating , and collaborating across functional borders.
  • Effectively present analysis, findings, and strategies to teammates and customers.
  • Expressing technical information clearly at different organizational levels.

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 and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination 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 or gender expression.

 

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