DevOps Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology in Springfield, Virginia

Job Description:

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Suitability:

Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:

Job Family:

Systems Engineering

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 we can't turn into opportunity. And our work depends on TS/SCI level cleared DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our Intelligence customer in Springfield, VA.

This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment.

The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.

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.


• Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives


• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)


• Administer production, staging and development environments


• 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 and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools


• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation


• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing


• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems


• Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks


• 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


• Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health


• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion


• Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability


• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner


• Aligns to the customer's strategies


• Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline


• Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest


• On-call support may be required

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 related systems programming experience


• Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)


• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)


• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes


• Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes


• Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices


• Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting


• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design


• 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 processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm


• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)


• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA VA Springfield

Additional Work Locations:

COVID-19 Vaccination: GDIT does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, GDIT may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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