Jr DevOps Engineer

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Jr. DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Jr. DevOps Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

HOW A JR DEVOPS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

In this role, you'll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers’ operations. As a Jr DevOps Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Automate and optimize service deployments

Integrate with enterprise authentication services

Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.

Architect, build and maintain On-Prem and cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives

Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)

Administer production, staging and development environments

Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents

Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage

Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools

Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation

Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing

Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems

Maintain documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks

Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability

Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner

Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings

On-call support will be required

Required Skills:

Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)

Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes

Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools

Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices

Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting

Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised

Experience with deploying On-Prem infrastructure

2+ years of relevant experience

Desired Skills:

Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm

Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)

Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

Experience using Jira and Confluence

Location: On Customer 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

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

#RoverGSS

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

2 + years of related experience

may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $83,300 - $112,700. 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.

View information about benefits and our total rewards program.

Our Identity Verification Process

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.

About Our Work

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.

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