DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph

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Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualifications: Skills: Amazon CloudWatch, Continuous Integrations, Database Management, Systems Engineering Certifications: AWS Certified Developer - Associate | Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: Transform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a DevOps Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of a secure customer. You will play a crucial role in maintaining critical production applications. ● Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base. ● Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base. ● Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources. ● Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The DevOps Engineer Principal must have: ● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience ● Experience : 8+ years ● Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Polygraph ● US citizenship required AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a strong understanding of software/application development processes and methodologies. Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities. Solid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment. Required Skills: • GIT, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch (Logs, Insights, Dashboards), EC2, ECS/ECR, Autoscaling, Elasticache, IAM, ELB, RDS, VPC, Secrets Manager, Lambda, Parameter Store, API Gateway, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Jenkins, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Containerization, Docker, Grafana, Loki. • Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with multiple programming and scripting languages - Python, Java preferred. • Able to 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. • Architect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives. • Establish job orchestration strategies and approaches, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc). • Administer production, staging, test and development environments. • Understanding of access management and security groups. • Experience with databases (Aurora, Maria db, MySQL). • Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems. • Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design. • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills. • Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience. Able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work. • 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 operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Cloudwatch, Splunk). • Experience working with container images and platforms (Docker/Kubernetes). • Understanding DevOps/Continuous Integration, serverless framework. Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health. • Understanding of microservice design to ensure best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing. • Integrate with enterprise authentication services. • Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills; shows tact with effective listening and follow through. • On-call support may be required. At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplaceOWN YOUR OPPORTUNITYExplore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.#OpportunityOwned#GDITCareers#WeAreGDIT#JET#VA_2026Alumni#GDITEnhanced2026 The likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750. 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:40Travel Required: None Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Herndon Additional Work Locations: 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(