DevOps Engineer (w/ Kubernetes)

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: USA VA Springfield
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ197108

Type of Requisition:
Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Python (Programming Language)
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + 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 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

The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. 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 VA Springfield

Additional Work Locations:
USA MO St. Louis

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 50 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.

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

PI281713425

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


The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. 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 VA Springfield



Additional Work Locations:
USA MO St. Louis



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 50 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.


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

PI281713425