CDAO Advana - DevSecOps Engineer

Devsecops Engineer

Location: USA DC Washington Full Part/Time: Full time Job Req: RQ220269 Type of Requisition: Pipeline Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Cyber and IT Risk Management Job Qualifications: Skills: Cloud DevOps, GitLab, IT Modernization, Strategy Development Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description: Join GDIT and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges. The CDAO Advana team is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join their efforts in the DC area. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities. This is a proposal with award expected June 2026. If interested, please apply as we are interviewing and making contingent offers now. Duties include:

• Executes enterprise DevSecOps modernization for the Advana program by architecting, operating, and optimizing software-factory pipelines across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS to support mission-critical analytics for Defense Department leadership, Combatant Commands, and intelligence-driven operational communities.
• Designs integrated development, security, testing, and deployment workflows using GitLab, Jenkins, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Nexus, Harbor, SonarQube, Anchore, Trivy, Sysdig, and OpenSCAP to maintain software integrity, traceability, and compliance across development, test, integration, staging, and production environments.
• Leads continuous pipeline development, automation scripting, and multi-environment integration activities supporting IL2, IL5, IL6, and JWICS enclaves.
• Sets the DevSecOps strategy for the program, evaluates emerging commercial and open-source tooling, develops adoption recommendations, and drives modernization initiatives that strengthen automation coverage and operational resilience.
• Coordinates incident-response activities across engineering, cybersecurity, and platform-operations teams, escalates critical issues to program leadership, and governs change-control processes, audit schedules, and compliance reporting.
• Designs secure CI/CD pipelines that automatically build, test, scan, and deploy Advana IaC, CaC, and application code.
• Develops and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code repositories encoding classification-specific security baselines.
• Runs automated STIG and NIST compliance checks, dynamic scans, and remediation workflows after each change. Implements observability and incident-response hooks feeding metrics, logs, and alerts into the SIEM.
• Maintains documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials for all DevSecOps tooling and security policies.
• Enforces protected branches, merge-request approvals, signed-commit requirements, artifact-signing procedures, and automated pre-receive checks for SAST, secret-leak detection, and IaC linting.
• Maintains continuous vulnerability monitoring, artifact governance, and repository integrity.
• Produces architecture updates, maturity assessments, performance reports, and roadmap recommendations that accelerate release cycles, strengthen compliance posture, and enhance mission readiness across the Advana enterprise.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• 8+ years of experience developing DevSecOps modernization
• Experience optimizing software-factory pipelines
• Security+
• TS with SCI eligibility

What Can GDIT Offer You?

• Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
• 401K with company match
• Educational Assistance and eLearning
• Flexible work week
• Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
• Rewards and Recognition programs
• Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging of highly motivated critical thinking

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. 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 DC Washington Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: 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. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc. Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans