DevOps Engineer, Sr.

Job Description :

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps, Sr. 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, Sr. you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

Our work depends on a TS / SCI cleared DevOps Engineer, Sr. 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 $116,979 - $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 :

Travel Required : None

None

T elecommuting Options :

Onsite

Work Location : USA VA Springfield

USA VA Springfield