DevOps Engineer, Sr.

$116,979 - $131,584/Yr

GD Information Technology, Inc. - Springfield, VA

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Remote - Springfield, VA
10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at GDIT, you will play a crucial role in delivering innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by our clients. Your primary focus will be on application development, ensuring that the end-user experience is prioritized while also fostering your own career growth. This position requires a Top Secret/SCI clearance, and you will be working closely with our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA. Your responsibilities will include automating and optimizing service deployments, integrating with enterprise authentication services, and establishing robust system monitoring while adhering to security protocols across development, testing, and production environments. You will also be tasked with building, testing, and maintaining custom Helm Charts and OpenShift Operators, as well as improving existing build and deployment processes using GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Your expertise will be essential in creating FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images, maintaining up-to-date documentation, and determining metrics for dashboards and service health. This role is pivotal in ensuring operational solutions are effectively followed up and validated for completion.

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
  • Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using GitLab and ArgoCD
  • Build, test, and maintain custom OpenShift Operators
  • Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using GitLab CI/CD pipelines to create complex CI templates and custom runners
  • Implement configuration management disciplines to maintain container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
  • Create FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images
  • Maintain up-to-date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
  • Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
  • Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

Requirements

  • 8+ years of related experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
  • 3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift
  • 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms
  • Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
  • 3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images
  • 3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from GitLab
  • Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds
  • Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • 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

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk
  • Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or APIs
  • Go programming language experience

Benefits

  • 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
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid military leave
  • Paid bereavement leave
  • Paid jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Business travel and accident insurance
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