DevOps Platform Engineer — Onsite (Arlington)

Science Applications International Corp.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Arlington, VA team. This role is primarily onsite at the customer location with a minimum of three onsite days per week.

You will build and maintain internal DevOps tooling and a scalable CI/CD platform across Azure, AWS, and on-prem environments, using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab. Strong scripting, IaC, and security–focused delivery are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five (5) years experience; additional work experience can substitute for degree.
• Go-based CLI tools and API integrations to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Strong background deploying and managing cloud resources (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terraform and other tools.
• Scripting language such as PowerShell or Python for pipeline and OS task automation.
• Proficient with Linux command line and shell scripting (Bash).
• Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS).
• Configuration management experience using Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using Docker containers.

Responsibilities

• Tool Development: Build internal DevOps tools, CLI utilities, and automation scripts.
• Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation).
• GitLab for source control and pipelines; Terraform and Ansible as primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
• Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Hyper-V sidecar.
• Trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans, evidenced on changes.
• SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offlinescanning and promotion for high-side environments.
• Secret hygiene by default, secrets management familiarity, and vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).

Skills

Go-based CLI tools

CI/CD pipelines

Linux command line

Bash scripting

Microsoft Active Directory

Entra ID

Vulnerability scanning

Secret management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitLab

Job description

SAIC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Arlington, VA team. This role is primarily onsite at the customer location with a minimum of three onsite days per week.

You will build and maintain internal DevOps tooling and a scalable CI/CD platform across Azure, AWS, and on-prem environments, using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab. Strong scripting, IaC, and security–focused delivery are essential.