{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d197db4ae856c7c9230c092f","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d197db4ae856c7c9230c092f","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d197db4ae856c7c9230c092f","title":"DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph","description":"Clearance Level\nTop Secret SCI + Polygraph\nCategory\nSoftware Engineering\nLocation\nHerndon, Virginia\n(Onsite Workplace)\n\nKey Skills For Success\n\nAmazon CloudWatch\n\nContinuous Integrations\n\nDatabase Management\n\nSystems Engineering\n\nREQ#: RQ223995\nPublic Trust: None\nRequisition Type: Regular\nYour Impact\n\nOwn your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.\n\nJob Description\n\nTransform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.\n\nMEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT\nAs a DevOps Engineer, 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.\n Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base.\n Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base.\n Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources.\n Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED\nBring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The DevOps Engineer Principal must have:\n Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience\n Experience: 8+ years\n Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Polygraph\n US citizenship required\n\nAWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a strong understanding of software/application development processes and methodologies.\n\nCompetent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities.\n\nSolid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment.\n\nRequired Skills:\n\nGIT, 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.\nDirect experience and demonstrated proficiency with multiple programming and scripting languages - Python, Java preferred.\nAble 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.\nArchitect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.\nEstablish job orchestration strategies and approaches, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).\nAdminister production, staging, test and development environments.\nUnderstanding of access management and security groups.\nExperience with databases (Aurora, Maria db, MySQL).\nEstablish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.\nKnowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.\nStrong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.\nProvides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience. Able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work.\nManage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents, monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage.\nMaintain operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Cloudwatch, Splunk).\nExperience working with container images and platforms (Docker/Kubernetes).\nUnderstanding DevOps/Continuous Integration, serverless framework. Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health.\nUnderstanding of microservice design to ensure best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.\nIntegrate with enterprise authentication services.\nMaintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills; shows tact with effective listening and follow through.\nOn-call support may be required.\n\nAt GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.\n Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities\n Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals\n Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off\n Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace\n\nOWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY\nExplore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.\n\n#OpportunityOwned\n#GDITCareers\n#WeAreGDIT\n#JET\n#VA_2026Alumni\n#GDITEnhanced2026\n\nWork Requirements\nYears of Experience\n\n8 + years of related experience\n\n* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree\n\nCertification\n\nAWS Certified Developer - Associate | Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Amazon Web Services (AWS)\n\nTravel Required\n\nNone\n\nCitizenship\n\nU.S. Citizenship Required\n\nSalary and Benefit Information\n\nThe 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.\n\nOur Identity Verification Process\n\nAs 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.\n\nAbout Our Work\n\nWe 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. 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