DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph in Herndon, Virginia at General Dynamics Information Technology

Location: USA VA Herndon
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ223995
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:
None
Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

DEVOPS ENGINEER PRINCIPAL

Transform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer Principal 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 Principal, 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
• 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 workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

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#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:
40

Travel 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(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.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 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 mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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