DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Internal mobility team

Competitive pay and PTO

Military-friendly workplace

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own critical production systems and drive cloud infrastructure across multiple government-facing applications. You will collaborate with developers, manage deployment pipelines, and optimize resources within a high-security environment.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of experience, TS/SCI w/Polygraph eligibility, and strong scripting and containerization skills. US citizenship is required to meet program requirements.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
• Experience: 8+ years
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
• US citizenship required
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or equivalent cloud certification is a plus

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications.
• Collaborate with a highly-skilled development team and a wider customer base.
• Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources.
• Utilize AWS services and end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles.

Skills

Python

Java

GIT

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Jenkins

Security

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

EC2

S3

RDS

VPC

IAM

AutoScaling

Elasticache

ELB

API Gateway

Job description

Transform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a DevOps Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of a secure customer. You will play a crucial role in maintaining critical production applications.

• Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base.
• Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base.
• Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources.
• Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The DevOps Engineer Principal must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
• Experience: 8+ years
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Polygraph
• US citizenship required

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a strong understanding of software/application development processes and methodologies.

Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities.

Solid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment.

Required Skills

• GIT, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch (Logs, Insights, Dashboards), EC2, ECS/ECR, Autoscaling, Elasticache, IAM, ELB, RDS, VPC, Secrets Manager, Lambda, Parameter Store, API Gateway, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Jenkins, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Containerization, Docker, Grafana, Loki.
• Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with multiple programming and scripting languages - Python, Java preferred.
• Able to maintain status of operations at all times - perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking.
• Architect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.
• Establish job orchestration strategies and approaches, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
• Administer production, staging, test and development environments.
• Understanding of access management and security groups.
• Experience with databases (Aurora, Maria db, MySQL).
• Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience. Able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work.
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents, monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
• Maintain operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Cloudwatch, Splunk).
• Experience working with container images and platforms (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Understanding DevOps/Continuous Integration, serverless framework. Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health.
• Understanding of microservice design to ensure best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services.
• Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; shows tact with effective listening and follow through.
• On-call support may be required.

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

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