DevOps Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology22 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$115k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, operate, maintain, upgrade, patch, back up, and administer DevOps tools, CI/CD build agents, and server, container, and cloud infrastructure.
- Operate and optimize CloudBees CI on AWS EKS, including Jenkins controllers, Kubernetes build agents, GitHub integrations, and pipelines supporting approximately 70,000 builds per month.
- Administer Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, JMaaS, and Structurizr, including dashboards, alerts, quality gates, performance tests, access controls, and platform integrations.
- Automate infrastructure, configuration, testing, security scanning, and deployments using infrastructure-as-code and scripting tools.
- Monitor system health, utilization, logs, telemetry, and alerts; troubleshoot and resolve build, deployment, environment, and observability issues and participate in incident response.
- Support application teams onboarding to tools and pipelines and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, pipeline documentation, release records, and change records.
- Apply CMS and NIST security requirements and support continuous ATO, FISMA, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration, and access-control activities.
- Provide non-production support during CMS business hours and participate in an on-call rotation for 24×7 production support.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, or systems administration.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, with additional relevant experience accepted in place of the degree.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with CloudBees CI, Jenkins, or a comparable enterprise platform.
- Experience with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes or EKS, GitHub integrations, and dynamically provisioned build agents.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer, Python, Bash, or comparable technologies.
- Experience integrating automated testing, code-quality controls, vulnerability scanning, and container security into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, patching, secure configurations, and vulnerability remediation.
- Understanding of CMS or federal security requirements, NIST guidance, FISMA controls, and ATO processes.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across pipelines, applications, containers, observability platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
- Relevant AWS, CloudBees, Kubernetes, Grafana, SonarQube, DevOps, or security certification is preferred.
- Experience with enterprise-scale CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center, managed controllers, Kubernetes build agents, dashboards, Prometheus scrape targets, alerting rules, SonarQube Quality Gates, and performance-test integrations is preferred.
- Familiarity with SSO, SAML, LDAP, RBAC, secrets management, least-privilege access, high availability, zero-downtime upgrades, SRE practices, DORA metrics, and AWS cost optimization is preferred.
- Experience supporting CMS, federal healthcare, or another federal government environment and continuous A&A, FISMA, and ATO boundaries is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote work within the continental United States with a full-flex work week where possible.
- CMS business-hours schedule for non-production support plus an on-call rotation for 24×7 production support.
- Up to 10% travel, including travel to CMS Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland several times a year.
- Medical, dental, vision, and health savings account plan options.
- 401(k) plan with company match and pre-tax and post-tax contribution options.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury-duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance benefits.
- The position is contingent upon contract award, projected in January 2027.
- Identity verification using biometrics and artificial intelligence is required during the hiring process, including camera use during virtual interviews.
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About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.