DevOps Engineer (w/ Kubernetes)

General Dynamics Information Technology
Virginia
Public Trust: None
Requisition Type: Pipeline
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

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 DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA.


HOW A DEVOPS ENGINEER 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:

• 5+ 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 Qualifications

• 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 Site

US Citizenship Required

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

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

Certification

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

Posted 2025-08-13

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