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Senior DevOps Engineer - Top Secret
General Dynamics Information Technology
USA VA Springfield; USA VA Springfield - 7770 Backlick Rd (VAS110); USA MO St. Louis
Source: General Dynamics Information Technology careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $127,500 — $172,500 USD per year
- Employment
- full time
Employer job description
From General Dynamics Information Technology's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
CI/CD, DevOps, Kubernetes Certifications:
None Experience:
6 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients while making the end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career growth ours.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Senior DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intel customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO.
HOW A SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
A Senior DevOps Engineer will drive faster, more reliable software delivery by strengthening the practices, automation and operational discipline that helps teams ship with confidence. This role will bridge development and operations to remove friction, improve collaboration, and ensure releases reach users with less disruption and greater consistency. In addition, the position will enhance observability, monitoring, and incident response to accelerate issue detection and recovery, while also improving system configuration
management and documentation to support scalability, resilience, and long-term operational excellence.
Job Duties:
- Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications
- Take source code, dependencies to perform application builds
- Perform automated testing and security scans
- Deploy to multiple environments (Dev, Staging, Operations)
- Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Author helm charts to deploy resources to OpenShift
- Manage and document system security, by performing software updates in response to scan findings, document system, architecture to demonstrate security compliance
In-depth knowledge, principles, and methods of enterprise solutions.
Eight years of experience designing and implementing complex systems in a classified environment. Experience developing strategic system architecture plans.
Experience in system and network creation and development.
Solid understanding of information processing fundamentals and best practices.
Researches, designs, develops, and/or modifies enterprise-wide cloud solutions and/or applications software
Designs, develops, codes, tests and debugs highly complex new software products or makes significant enhancements to existing software.
Develops and applies advanced methods, theories, and research techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced software applications and problems.
Resolves highly complex hardware/software compatibility and interface design considerations.
Conducts investigations and tests of considerable complexity.
Factors emerging technologies and product supportability into design and implementation.
Provides input to staff involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, and training materials.
Advises hardware engineers on machine characteristics that affect software systems, such as storage capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements.
Prepares reports on analyses, findings, and project progress, and presents results to management and/or customer personnel.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Required:
TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph. Can sponsor for polygraph.
- Minimum 6+ years of directly related experience
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major, or 2 additional years of experience in information technology
- Proficiency with Linux operating systems
- Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
- Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth/Auth2 or similar zero-trust identity implementations
- Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps style operations management
- Experience with web server management (e.g. DNS, certificate management)
- Knowledge of HTTP API design standards and best practices
- Ability to manage networking for web applications (TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, with knowledge of AWS
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, OpenShift Containerized Platform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Knowledge of including monitoring & logging and network & security for containers
- Experience deploying and managing databases, interacting with DBs via SQL and ORMs
- Comfortable writing Python and BASH to create systems tooling
- Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code repositories
- Experience with software system design with the ability to create application architecture diagrams for new applications
- Experience integrating security components with applications and databases
- One or more technical certification (Network +, Security +, CISSP, etc)
Desired:
Familiarity with Configuration Management and Request for Change process for review and assessment
Experience implementing zero-downtime re-indexing strategies and managing complex Elasticsearch data models (e.g., routing, query-time, de-duplication) within an OpenShift/Kubernetes environment
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Alloy, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, or Grafana
An understanding of reverse proxies such as Nginx, Traefik or Apache HTTP Server (WebGate), HAProxy, or Envoy.
Experience with delivery of an integrated solution using Agile software delivery techniques
Experience in System Engineering and project/program management.
Knowledge and/or experience with customer enterprise products (CORE).
GDIT Is Your Place:
- 401K with company match
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages
- Internal Mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
The likely salary range for this position is $127,500 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
None
T elecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA VA Springfield
Additional Work Locations:
USA MO St. Louis
Compensation
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc .
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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