Senior DevOps Engineer

Clearance Level

Top Secret/SCI

Category

Software Engineering

Locations

Springfield, Virginia

St. Louis, Missouri

(Onsite Workplace)

Key Skills For Success

Argo CD

GitLab CI/CD

Web Server Management

REQ#: RQ225963

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

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 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:

Skills/Qualifications:

Required:

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

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 NGA enterprise products (NGA CORE).

Location: 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

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

6 + years of related experience

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

Certification

CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

Salary and Benefit Information

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.

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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