Senior DevOps Engineer - Top Secret

Type of

Requisition :
Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other

Required:

None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

CI/CD, Dev Ops, Kubernetes

Certifications:

None

Experience:

6 + years of related experience US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior Dev Ops Engineer e, 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 Dev Ops Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

Our work depends on a Senior Dev Ops Engineer joining our team to support our intel customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO.

A Senior Dev Ops 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.

• 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 Open Shift
• 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.

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 Git Ops 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 Open Shift, with knowledge of AWS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, Open Shift Containerized Platform, Cloud formation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef,…