DevOps Engineer Senior, Team Lead

$126.40K - $162.40K/yr

Full-time

Posted 7 days ago


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REQ#: RQ220438Public Trust: None Requisition Type: Regular Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nations safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

DevOps Team Lead, a Key Personnel Role, requiresa unique blend of cloud engineeringexpertise, operational rigor, and leadership. As a DevOps Team Lead, you understand how to build resilient systems, ensure operational excellence, andmaintainsecure, compliant environments at scale.Werelooking for someone like you to ensure the reliability and performance of critical systems hosted in OpenShift.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a DevOps Team Lead you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a DevOps Team Lead joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO.

HOW A DEVOPS TEAM LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

You will lead the implementation of resilient cloud architecture, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and proactive monitoring to meet the stringent performance, compliance, and security requirements of public sector operations.

Job Duties:

  • Leads DevOps team to support customer systems operations, sustainment, maintenance, and customer/user support in multiple environments across several security enclaves.
  • Direct and manage DevOps team for investigation and resolution of customer issues, system discrepancies, and other required maintenance activities.
  • Coordinate and perform software problem analysis, modification testing, system, and security administration.
  • Create, maintain, update, new and current documentation related to operations, sustainment, maintenance and customer support (SLAs, SOPs, etc).
  • Ability to receive code from development team to perform system builds and hardening.
  • Perform automated testing and security scans
  • Manage and document system security and work with Development to ensure all systems are security compliant.
  • Author helm charts to deploy systems to multiple OpenShift environments (Dev & Ops)
  • Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
  • Manage system level PKI certifications, including NPEs, in all system environments.
  • Based on customer requirements, design, implement and monitor user and system metrics for all users and systems across all environments.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Skills/Qualifications

Required:

  • TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or STEM field
  • 7+ years of demonstrated experience in leading a team to perform system sustainment, administration, security, integration, and testing on a program or project (performing search and discovery across 15 environments)
  • 5+ years demonstrated experience with DoW and ICD Cyber Security Requirements and implementation.
  • 3+ years of experience with cloud services.
  • Current Security+ certification
  • Experience working with an Agile Development team utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Experience providing input to the team involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, and training materials.
  • Knowledgeable of containerization, monitoring & logging, and network & security

Desired:

  • 5+ years demonstrated experience with geospatial information system operations and sustainment.
  • 5+ years demonstrated experience in application software operations and sustainment.
  • Current CISSP or CISM certification.
  • Familiarity with Configuration Management and Request for Change process for review and assessment
  • Experience with delivery of an integrated software development solution.
  • Experience in System Engineering and project management.
  • Knowledge and/or experience with NGA enterprise products.
  • Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, ArgoCD, or similar)
  • Working experience with Service+ and Jira to track user issues as well as development stories.
  • Understand basic networking TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • In-depth knowledge, principles, and methods of enterprise solutions.
  • Be familiar with researching, designing, developing, and/or modifying enterprise-wide cloud solutions and/or applications software.
  • Designs, develops, codes, tests and debugs highly complex new software products or makes significant enhancements to existing software.
  • Develops and applies advanced methods, theories, and research techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced software applications and problems.
  • Factors emerging technologies and product supportability into design and implementation.
  • Ability to manage storage capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements.
  • Prepares reports on analyses, findings, and project progress, and presents results to management and/or customer personnel.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
  • Comfortable using Python and BASH to create systems tooling
  • Provides incident resolution to users and customers.
  • Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code repositories
  • Experience with software system design, able to create application architecture for new applications
  • Experience with integrating security components with applications and databases

Location: On Site

US Citizenship Required

Work Requirements
Years of Experience

7 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. 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.
View information about benefits and our total rewards program.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology 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 over 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber and application development. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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GDIT is 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. Its 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. The company operates across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber, and application development.

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Falls Church, VA, US



Frequently asked questions

Q: What skills or qualities help someone succeed as a Senior Devops Engineer?

A: To succeed as a Senior DevOps Engineer, key technical skills include expertise in containerization (e.g., Docker), orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform), as well as proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Soft skills such as strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration abilities are also crucial, as Senior DevOps Engineers often lead cross-functional teams and drive process improvements. By combining these technical and soft skills, Senior DevOps Engineers can effectively bridge the gap between development and operations, driving efficiency, reliability, and innovation in software delivery.

Q: What is the career path for a Senior Devops Engineer?

A: A Senior DevOps Engineer's typical career progression involves starting as a Junior DevOps Engineer, then advancing to a DevOps Engineer role, followed by Senior DevOps Engineer, and eventually, a Technical Lead or Engineering Manager position. Key opportunities for skill development include mastering cloud computing platforms, containerization, and automation tools, as well as expanding into areas like site reliability engineering, security, and data analytics. Long-term career prospects for Senior DevOps Engineers may include transitioning into leadership roles, such as Director of Engineering or Chief Technology Officer, or pursuing specialized roles like Cloud Architect or SRE Lead.



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