DevSecOps Software Developer SME

Req : RQ221643

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other

Required:

None

Job Family: Software Engineering

Skills:

Automation, Design, Dev Ops

Experience:

10+ years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

The Dev Sec Ops  Software Developer SME will design, build, troubleshoot, and maintain automation and integration capabilities for mission-focused cloud and software delivery environments. The engineer will reduce manual work, improve repeatability, support secure delivery, and document solutions.

• Develop automation that improves consistency, reliability, and delivery speed.
• Support secure software delivery, operational sustainment, and compliance-driven engineering activities.
• Help convert engineering needs into practical scripts, tools, pipelines, documentation, and repeatable processes.
• Provide guidance to less experienced engineers and support team execution under the Cloud and Software Factory leads.

• Apply expert knowledge across the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, debugging, release, and sustainment.
• Design and maintain automation for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, operational support tasks, and integration workflows.
• Develop scripts, tools, services, and process improvements using common scripting, programming, automation, and cloud technologies.
• Analyze user and business needs, translate them into technical designs, and produce diagrams, workflows, and implementation plans.
• Create and maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and evidence artifacts.
• Support secure configuration management, vulnerability remediation, scan integration, and compliance support activities.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, operating system, infrastructure, cloud, network, identity, and CI/CD boundaries.
• May coach and provide guidance to less experienced professionals; may serve as a task lead.
• Perform additional duties as assigned in support of program delivery and operational sustainment.

• Ability to work independently under limited supervision and follow through on assigned engineering work.
• Practical automation experience with the judgment to build supportable, maintainable solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and comfort working through incomplete requirements or logs.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, and status clearly to engineers and non-engineers.
• Understanding of security, documentation, change control, and operational stability in a mission environment.

• Experience in federal, DoD, cloud, classified, or other controlled environments.
• Experience with Git Lab CI/CD or comparable pipeline platforms and source-control workflows.
• Experience with cloud automation, event-driven workflows, containerized applications, and infrastructure as code.
• Cloud, Dev Ops, security, or infrastructure certifications relevant to the role.

• Engineering team supporting cloud infrastructure, software factory services, automation, security compliance, and production operations.
• Work may include both planned engineering buildout and troubleshooting of mission-impacting issues.
• The engineer will take technical directions from the Technical Delivery Manager, Deputy TDM, or Cloud/Software Factory lead as needed to complete required tasks.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, application, and customer teams.

Required Skills: Experience with scripting or software development, CI/CD or automation tooling, cloud or infrastructure services, source control, technical troubleshooting, and documentation.

Required Certification: DoD 8570/8140 baseline certification such as Security+ CE.

Clearance: Top Secret

Required Experience: 10+ years of related software development, automation, Dev Ops, cloud, systems engineering, or mission IT experience.

Preferred

Skills:

Exposure to Power Shell, Python, Bash, Git Lab or similar CI/CD tools, containers, cloud services (Azure, AWS), infrastructure as code, security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and controlled or regulated environments.

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.

GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid…