Remote AKS DevOps Engineer & Cloud CI/CD Specialist

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Generous paid time off

Flexible/remote work options

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to design and manage cloud-native deployments on AKS. You will automate CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, implement IaC patterns, and collaborate with ICAM teams to secure and accelerate deployments.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes operations, observability, and secure handling of secrets, with a focus on scalable, reliable production releases and monitoring across secure environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) with 5+ years of related experience.
• Active Secret security clearance is required.
• Current DoW 8140 certification (Security+ CE or higher).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AKS clusters, node pools, workload identities, ingress controllers, and security configurations.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build automation, containerization, quality gates, security scanning, and production release workflows.
• Build and maintain Helm charts, YAML manifests, templates, and reusable AKS deployment patterns.
• Implement IaC (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM) for provisioning cloud resources.
• Collaborate with application teams to containerize apps and troubleshoot deployments.
• Implement observability with Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK for health and metrics.
• Ensure secure handling of secrets using Key Vault or equivalents.
• Troubleshoot AKS workloads, CI/CD failures, and Kubernetes scaling issues.
• Document operational procedures, IaC patterns, deployment workflows, and DevOps standards.

Skills

AKS operations

GitLab pipelines

Docker

Helm

YAML

Kubernetes manifests

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Monitor

Prometheus/Grafana

ELK/EFK

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to design and manage cloud-native deployments on AKS. You will automate CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, implement IaC patterns, and collaborate with ICAM teams to secure and accelerate deployments.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes operations, observability, and secure handling of secrets, with a focus on scalable, reliable production releases and monitoring across secure environments.