Senior DevOps Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology
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Job summary
General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team supporting an intel customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. The role emphasizes automated software delivery, observability, and secure CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
You will bridge development and operations, enhance monitoring and incident response, and contribute to scalable, resilient, and well-documented infrastructure in a classified environment.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of related experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or related field / 2 additional years IT experience
- Proficiency with Linux operating systems
- Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
- Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth/Auth2 or similar zero-trust identity implementations
- Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps style operations management
- Experience with web server management (DNS, certificate management)
- Knowledge of HTTP API design standards and best practices
- Ability to manage networking for web applications (TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, with knowledge of AWS
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenShift Containerized Platform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Knowledge of monitoring/logging and security for containers
- Ability to write Python and BASH for tooling
- Code updates to existing repositories
- Experience in system architecture and diagrams for new apps
- Security components integration with apps and databases
- Certifications such as Network+, Security+, CISSP
- TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph
- Knowledge of NGA enterprise products (NGA CORE)
Responsibilities
- Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications
- Builds from source code and dependencies for applications
- Perform automated testing and security scans
- Deploy to Dev, Staging, and Operations environments
- Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Author helm charts for OpenShift deployments
- Manage and document system security and updates
- Design and implement enterprise system architectures
- Develop and maintain cloud solutions and software applications
- Create architecture diagrams for new applications
- Integrate security components with applications and databases
- Contribute to technical documentation and training materials
- Provide input to hardware engineers on system characteristics
- Prepare progress reports for management and customers
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Job description
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualifications: Skills: Argo CD, GitLab CI/CD, Web Server Management Certifications: None Experience: 6 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients while making the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Senior DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intel customer in Springfield, VA or St Louis, MO.
A Senior DevOps Engineer will drive faster, more reliable software delivery by strengthening the practices, automation and operational discipline that helps teams ship with confidence. This role will bridge development and operations to remove friction, improve collaboration, and ensure releases reach users with less disruption and greater consistency. In addition, the position will enhance observability, monitoring, and incident response to accelerate issue detection and recovery, while also improving system configuration management and documentation to support scalability, resilience, and long-term operational excellence.
- Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications
- Take source code, dependencies to perform application builds
- Perform automated testing and security scans
- Deploy to multiple environments (Dev, Staging, Operations)
- Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Author helm charts to deploy resources to OpenShift
- Manage and document system security, by performing software updates in response to scan findings, document system, architecture to demonstrate security compliance
- In-depth knowledge, principles, and methods of enterprise solutions. Eight years of experience designing and implementing complex systems in a classified environment.
- Experience developing strategic system architecture plans.
- Experience in system and network creation and development.
- Solid understanding of information processing fundamentals and best practices.
- Researches, designs, develops, and/or modifies enterprise-wide cloud solutions and/or applications software
- Designs, develops, codes, tests and debugs highly complex new software products or makes significant enhancements to existing software.
- Develops and applies advanced methods, theories, and research techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced software applications and problems.
- Resolves highly complex hardware/software compatibility and interface design considerations.
- Conducts investigations and tests of considerable complexity.
- Factors emerging technologies and product supportability into design and implementation.
- Provides input to staff involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, and training materials.
- Advises hardware engineers on machine characteristics that affect software systems, such as storage capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements.
- Prepares reports on analyses, findings, and project progress, and presents results to management and/or customer personnel.
- Minimum 6+ years of directly related experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major, or 2 additional years of experience in information technology
- Proficiency with Linux operating systems
- Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
- Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth/Auth2 or similar zero-trust identity implementations
- Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps style operations management
- Experience with web server management (e.g. DNS, certificate management)
- Knowledge of HTTP API design standards and best practices
- Ability to manage networking for web applications (TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, with knowledge of AWS
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, OpenShift Containerized Platform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Knowledge of including monitoring & logging and network & security for containers
- Experience deploying and managing databases, interacting with DBs via SQL and ORMs
- Comfortable writing Python and BASH to create systems tooling
- Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code repositories
- Experience with software system design with the ability to create application architecture diagrams for new applications
- Experience integrating security components with applications and databases
- Technical certification Network +, Security +, CISSP, etc.
- TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph
- Familiarity with Configuration Management and Request for Change process for review and assessment
- Experience implementing zero-downtime re-indexing strategies and managing complex Elasticsearch data models (e.g., routing, query-time, de-duplication) within an OpenShift/Kubernetes environment
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Alloy, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, or Grafana
- An understanding of reverse proxies such as Nginx, Traefik or Apache HTTP Server (WebGate), HAProxy, or Envoy.
- Experience with delivery of an integrated solution using Agile software delivery techniques
- Experience in System Engineering and project/program management.
- Knowledge and/or experience with NGA enterprise products (NGA CORE).
On Contractor Site
US Citizenship Required
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE 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
The likely salary range for this position is $143,650 - $194,350. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: None Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Springfield Additional Work Locations: USA MO St. Louis
- Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
- We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans Opportunity Owned From working with technologies like AI, cyber and cloud to careers in intelligence and health, we offer endless opportunities to apply your expertise to create a safer, smarter world.
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