DevSecOps Engineer

General Dynamics • Raleigh, NC

4d • Remote

About The Position

Seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our expanding DevSecOps (DSO) team. This new DevSecOps Engineer role provides critically needed support to the DevSecOps/Middleware team, working as part of the Managed Application, Infrastructure, Networking, Enterprise, and Security Services (MAINES) contract. The DSO Engineer works in unison with several matrixed teams across client and contractor organizations. This role regularly interfaces with clients, software developers, and software engineers and functions as a primary technical point of contact and must be experienced and comfortable in a client-facing role. This role frequently functions as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders and is expected to facilitate collaboration and communication between stakeholder groups (e.g., during cloud intake process meetings, translating technical progress/milestones to Deployment Managers (DMs) and application owners). The ideal candidate for this role possesses a high degree of attention to detail and the ability to work both in a self-directed manner, and as part of a team. The ideal candidate will also have prior practical experience establishing and documenting technical processes. General Duties and Responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to: Contributes to the completion of major engineering programs and may function in a project leadership role. Develops solutions to a variety of highly complex engineering problems of advanced scope and complexity. Performs highly complex systems design, development, and integration form the start of a systems life cycle to the end. Oversight of highly complex infrastructure including installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools. Performs highly complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis. Performs continual maintenance and provides highly complex solutions for security, backup and redundancy problems. Prepares and maintains a wide range of documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects. Provides guidance to less-experienced Systems Engineers. Maintains current knowledge of rapidly changing technology and works with management to evolve current processes. Serves in a client-facing role and regularly interacts with multiple stakeholders. May coach and review the work of less-experienced professionals. May serve as a team or task leader. (Not a people manager)

Requirements

• 4+ years' experience as a DevSecOps developer or Systems Engineer who develops and manages the CI/CD pipelines of a wide variety of applications.
• Ability to act as a liaison between Application Owners, Application Developers, and multiple supporting teams, such as Cloud Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, Security Engineers, etc.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across multiple applications.
• Ability to manage, maintain, and enhance existing CI/CD pipelines within GitHub.
• Experienced in providing DevSecOps implementation using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps, GitHub experience preferred.
• Ability to work with AWS via console and command line.
• Ability to configure and deploy Kubernetes clusters, practical experience with AWS EKS and comfort with kubectl commands preferred.
• 3+ years' practical experience with infrastructure as code deployments, Terraform experience preferred.
• GitHub (1-2 years of practical application in an organization)
• Jenkins (1-2 years of practical application in an organization)
• AWS (1-2 years of practical application in an organization)
• RHEL (5 years of practical application in an organization)
• Kubernetes (2 years practical application in an organization)
• Docker (1-2 years of practical application in an organization)

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certifications (Certified DevOps Engineer)
• Kubernetes Certification (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
• BA/BS (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of relevant Computer Science/Information Technology experience
• Experience developing enterprise-level applications
• Highly proficient problem-solving ability
• Ability to apply principles of process improvement & best practices in process documentation
• Ability to independently provide direct support in a client-facing role
• Ability to manage multiple, high-priority projects, tasks, and deadlines and shift focus as necessary
• EKS deployed on Fargate (experience desirable, but not required)

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the completion of major engineering programs and may function in a project leadership role.
• Develops solutions to a variety of highly complex engineering problems of advanced scope and complexity.
• Performs highly complex systems design, development, and integration form the start of a systems life cycle to the end.
• Oversight of highly complex infrastructure including installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Performs highly complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis.
• Performs continual maintenance and provides highly complex solutions for security, backup and redundancy problems.
• Prepares and maintains a wide range of documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects.
• Provides guidance to less-experienced Systems Engineers.
• Maintains current knowledge of rapidly changing technology and works with management to evolve current processes.
• Serves in a client-facing role and regularly interacts with multiple stakeholders.
• May coach and review the work of less-experienced professionals.
• May serve as a team or task leader.

Benefits

• 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.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees