Senior DevOps Engineer - Top Secret

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health and wellness packages

Education and certification support

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to accelerate software delivery across Dev, Staging, and Operations environments for our federal client. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and security-by-design practices.

The engineer will bridge development and operations, implement IaC and GitOps, and contribute to OpenShift/Kubernetes deployments while ensuring compliance and scalability across the enterprise in Missouri/Illinois regions.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph; sponsorship possible.
• Minimum 6+ years of directly related experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or related field, or 2 additional years of 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, certificates).
• Knowledge of HTTP API design standards and best practices.
• Ability to manage networking for web applications (TCP/IP, DNS, 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, etc.).
• Knowledge of monitoring & logging and 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 to existing repositories.
• Experience with security component integration in applications and databases.
• One or more technical certifications (Network+, Security+, CISSP).

Responsibilities

• Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications.
• Build apps from source and dependencies.
• Perform automated testing and security scans.
• Deploy to Dev, Staging, and Operations environments.
• Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management.
• Author Helm charts to deploy resources to OpenShift.
• Manage and document system security; update scans and architecture.
• Develop enterprise cloud solutions and software; design architecture.
• Create architecture diagrams for new applications.
• Integrate security components with applications and databases.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Security

Python scripting

BASH scripting

GitOps/ArgoCD

AWS

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/CE/SE or related field

Tools

ArgoCD

OpenShift

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins/GitLab/CircleCI

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.

HOW A SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

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.

Job Duties:

• 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.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Required:

• TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph. Can sponsor for polygraph.
• 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
• One or more technical certification (Network +, Security +,CISSP, etc)

Desired:

• 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 customer enterprise products (CORE).

GDIT Is Your Place:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal Mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays