OpenShift DevOps Team Lead TS/SCI

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Internal mobility opportunities

401K with company match

Competitive pay and paid time off

Military-friendly workplace

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks an experienced Operations Team Lead to guide a DevOps/Operations team. You will ensure security, resilience, and reliability of OpenShift-hosted systems, while collaborating with mission partners and government customers.

Role requires strong leadership, systems administration, and automation background to enhance deployments and CI/CD workflows. TS/SCI with CI poly is required; cloud and IaC experience highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or STEM field.
• 7+ years leading teams in operations, sustainment, administration, security, or integration.
• 5+ years implementing DoW/IC cybersecurity requirements.
• 3+ years working with cloud technologies.
• Kubernetes/OpenShift experience.
• IAT Level II certification (Security+) with IAT Level III preferred.
• Experience in Agile/SAFe environments.
• Strong communication skills for engagement with users and government customers.
• 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 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

Leadership

DevOps

OpenShift/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Communication

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or STEM Field

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

GitLab

ArgoCD

ServiceNow

Jira

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks an experienced Operations Team Lead to guide a DevOps/Operations team. You will ensure security, resilience, and reliability of OpenShift-hosted systems, while collaborating with mission partners and government customers.

Role requires strong leadership, systems administration, and automation background to enhance deployments and CI/CD workflows. TS/SCI with CI poly is required; cloud and IaC experience highly valued.