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:

Systems Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Kubernetes, Monitoring Tools, Systems Programming

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a DevOps Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA. 

HOW A DEVOPS ENGINEER, SR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

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

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

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

Location: On Customer Site

US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
● 401K with company match
● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

#RoverGSS

The likely salary range for this position is $106,371 - $131,584. 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 MO St. Louis

Additional Work Locations:

USA VA Springfield

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 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

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.