Software Engineer 3
About The Position
Transform technology into opportunity as a Software Engineer Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. The Software Engineer shall be responsible for the engineering, implementation, integration, and sustainment of the Delinea Tools Suite in a Linux environment. This role ensures secure credential management, privileged access controls, secrets management, and automation capabilities that align with mission security and compliance requirements. The Software Engineer shall serve as the SME for all Delinea technologies running on Linux systems and shall collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, and DevOps teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree.
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Top Secret SCI + Polygraph security clearance.
- Experience using the Linux CLI and Linux Suite of Tools.
- Experience developing scripts using Bash/Python.
- Recent software development experience using Python and Java.
- Strong background in Linux administration such as RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Ubuntu.
- Hands-on experience implementing or supporting at least one Delinea product (e.g., Secret Server, Privilege Manager, DevOps Secrets Vault).
- Experience integrating Delinea with directory services (LDAP, Active Directory, FreeIPA).
- Understanding of identity and access management (IAM), privileged access management (PAM), certificate-based authentication, and security best practices.
- Familiarity with API-based integrations, RESTful services, and secrets automation in CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools such as Ansible and SaltStack.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, and associated secret‑handling patterns.
- Experience with the sustainment and support of large Linux clusters including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with the Atlassian Suite of Tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Responsibilities
- Engineering, implementation, integration, and sustainment of the Delinea Tools Suite in a Linux environment.
- Ensuring secure credential management, privileged access controls, secrets management, and automation capabilities that align with mission security and compliance requirements.
- Serving as the SME for all Delinea technologies running on Linux systems.
- Collaborating closely with security, infrastructure, and DevOps teams.
- Troubleshooting system-level issues in distributed environments, including logs, services, networking, and authentication.
- Supporting enterprise security tools or working in a cybersecurity-focused software engineering role.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
