OpenShift DevOps Team Lead (TS/SCI)

General Dynamics Information Technology; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology in Springfield, VA is seeking an Operations Team Lead to guide a DevOps/Operations group responsible for secure, reliable systems hosted in OpenShift. You’ll mentor staff, automate deployments, and collaborate with government customers on mission-critical outcomes.

The role requires TS/SCI with poly, 7+ years leading teams, and strong cloud/DevOps experience. Expect hands-on system administration, security operations, and formal IaC practice in a

Qualifications

• 7+ years leading teams in operations, sustainment, administration, security, or integration.
• 5+ years implementing DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements.
• 3+ years working with cloud technologies.
• Minimum of IAT Level II certification (Security+) with IAT Level III certification preferred.
• Experience supporting Agile/SAFe environments.
• Knowledge of containerization, monitoring, logging, networking, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an Operations/DevOps team supporting multi‑environment system sustainment, administration, maintenance, and user support
• Prioritize and distribute work across the team, ensuring timely issue resolution and operational excellence
• Collaborate directly with users and government customers to understand requirements, communicate system status, and ensure mission outcomes
• Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations
• Maintain and update operational documentation including SOPs, SLAs, and system guides
• Receive code from development teams and complete system builds, hardening, configuration, and deployment automation
• Support and enhance CI/CD deployment workflows and security scans
• Manage PKI certificates, system configurations, and operational compliance
• Develop Helm charts for OpenShift deployments and support Infrastructure as Code practices
• Design and monitor user and system metrics to ensure performance, reliability, and readiness across all environments

Skills

Cloud Architectures

DevOps

Testing

CI/CD

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or STEM field

Tools

GitLab

ArgoCD

ServiceNow

Jira

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Python

Bash

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology in Springfield, VA is seeking an Operations Team Lead to guide a DevOps/Operations group responsible for secure, reliable systems hosted in OpenShift. You’ll mentor staff, automate deployments, and collaborate with government customers on mission-critical outcomes.

The role requires TS/SCI with poly, 7+ years leading teams, and strong cloud/DevOps experience. Expect hands-on system administration, security operations, and formal IaC practice in a