Senior DevSecOps Engineer

$114,750 - $155,250/Yr

General Dynamics - Falls Church, VA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Falls Church, VA

10,001+ employees

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer at GDIT is responsible for ensuring the seamless integration of security within the cloud development process. This role focuses on continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), automated deployment of containers on AWS, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to meet security and governance requirements. The engineer will play a crucial role in transforming client operations through innovative cloud solutions, ensuring that applications are secure, scalable, and compliant with federal standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the opportunity as a Cloud Developer Advisor and help ensure the mission is never interrupted.
• Design, develop and maintain automated deployment of containers on AWS cloud utilizing the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.
• Utilize CI/CD tools and applications including GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, and Flux.
• Partner with cross functional teams, such as Security, Architecture, Governance, and other teams to comply with governance and security requirements.
• Responsible for creating, configuring, and maintaining application specific GitLab pipelines.
• Integrate security measures directly into the CI/CD process, ensuring that all applications deployed meet federal security standards and best practices.
• Provide ongoing support for AWS-based infrastructure, including setting up EC2 instances, managing RDS databases, and ensuring that applications are deployed and scaled appropriately within the cloud environment.
• Ensure platform implementation has appropriate design patterns and coding standards in place.
• Work with emerging technologies to develop solutions supporting development and migration (to AWS cloud) efforts that support the client's mission.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/combined education and 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing container (Docker) solutions on Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an HHS High Risk Public Trust (Tier 4) clearance.
• Working knowledge of AWS and Cloud Computing concepts.
• Hands-on experience using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code/automation technology and one or more technologies for CI/CD systems like Jenkins, Kubernetes, ELK stack, Splunk etc.
• Hands-on experience with other IaC automation technologies like Ansible and CloudFormation.
• Experience with Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring and Automated Scaling solutions.
• Networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Using Git as version control platform.
• Strong hands-on coding in one or multiple of the mainstream languages like Python, Java etc.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in RDBMS.

Nice-to-haves

• Terraform certification is preferable.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible work weeks
• Paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance