DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph

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

Transform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a DevOps Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of a secure customer. You will play a crucial role in maintaining critical production applications.
● Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base.
● Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base.
● Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources.
● Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The DevOps Engineer Principal must have:
● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
● Experience : 8+ years
● Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Polygraph
● US citizenship required

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a strong understanding of software/application development processes and methodologies.

Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities.

Solid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment.

Required Skills:

• GIT, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch (Logs, Insights, Dashboards), EC2, ECS/ECR, Autoscaling, Elasticache, IAM, ELB, RDS, VPC, Secrets Manager, Lambda, Parameter Store, API Gateway, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Jenkins, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Containerization, Docker, Grafana, Loki.
• Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with multiple programming and scripting languages - Python, Java preferred.
• Able to maintain status of operations at all times - perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking.
• Architect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.
• Establish job orchestration strategies and approaches, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
• Administer production, staging, test and development environments.
• Understanding of access management and security groups.
• Experience with databases (Aurora, Maria db, MySQL).
• Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience. Able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work.
• 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 operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Cloudwatch, Splunk).
• Experience working with container images and platforms (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Understanding DevOps/Continuous Integration, serverless framework. Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health.
• Understanding of microservice design to ensure best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services.
• Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; shows tact with effective listening and follow through.
• On-call support may be required.

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.

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

8 + years of related experience

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

Certification

AWS Certified Developer - Associate | Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required