DevOps Engineer, Sr

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Job Family: Systems Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Dev Ops, Git Lab CI/CD, Kubernetes

Certifications: None

Experience: 8+ years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Dev Ops Engineer, Sr. e, 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 Dev Ops Engineer, Sr. you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared Dev Ops Engineer, Sr. joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

How a Dev Ops Engineer will make an impact 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.
• Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD
• Build, test, and maintain custom Open Shift Operators
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to create complex CI templates and custom runners.
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Create FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
• Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

What you'll need to succeed

Required Skills:

• 8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably with Open Shift
• 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops and software/application development processes
• 3+ years of experience building Git Lab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images
• 3+ years of experience using Helm and Git Ops tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from Gitlab
• Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds
• Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed
• 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 to on-prem/data center infrastructure
• Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Desired

• Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk
• Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or API's
• Go programming language experience

Location:

On Customer Site

US Citizenship Required

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

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The likely salary range for this position is $106,371 - $131,584. 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 MO St. Louis

Additional Work Locations

USA VA Springfield

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