Cloud DevOps Platform Engineer - (SIGN-ON BONUS!!) - TS/SCI with 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

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge that we can’t turn into opportunity. And our work depends on a Red Hat OpenShift Developer joining our team to support Government activities at Chantilly, VA. 

**This position is eligible for a sign on bonus**

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Experience: 7+ years related
• Required Skills:
• RedHat OpenShift
• Kubernetes Essentials: Pods, deployments, services, replicasets, configmaps/secrets, namespaces, ingress. YAML manifest authoring and kubectl commands
• Storage & Networking: Persistent volumes (PV/PVC, CSI Drivers), service discovery, OVN-Kubernetes for pod communication
• OpenShift Command Line Interface: All commands-login, project creations (oc new-project), app deployment (oc new - app), expolos (oc expose), logs/debug (oc rsh/logs), and admin tasks (oc adm policy for RBAC)
• Application Development: Microservices in Java/Node.js/Python/Go; REST APIs, YAML for K8s resources
• Programming web and client/server applications using Java, Typescript/JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Spring Boot
• Frontend frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular
• FS Maximo
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Desired skills and abilities:
• Maximo Application Suite Skills (MAS):
• Cluster Administration: Installing, configuring, and maintaining OpenShift 4.16+ clusters
• Container/Pod Management: Deploying scaling and managing containerized applications
• MAS Operator Lifecycle: Understanding operators to manage the lifecycle of MAS components
• Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in Bash or Ansible for automating Day 2 operations
• Security: Managing roles (RBAC), secrets, and security context constraints (SCCs)
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with upgrading Spring Boot. Hibernate/JPA especially from much older versions to newer versions
• Demonstrated hands - on experience with Linux based or Windows-based systems and shell scripting
• Demonstrated hands - on experience with build automation technologies such as Gradle, Maven, Jenkins etc
• Demonstrated hands - on experience with WebSphere or Tomcat
• Container security tools like Podman for rootless containers
• Working in an Agile development environment
• Jira, Confluence,
• Version Control & Collaboration: Git (GitHub/GitLab)
• Familiarity with customer security requirements, compliance tools and processes
• Desired certifications:
• RedHat certified Cloud-native Java Developer (EX378) or earlier EX283 certification
• RedHat certified OpenShift Administrator (EX280)
• RedHat Certified Systems Administrator (RHSCA) for Linux
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CAK) or Application Developer (CKAD) for K8's
• Location: Chantilly, VA - customer site

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

7 + years of related experience

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

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required