Senior Cloud Platform and DevSecOps Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph
General Dynamics Information Technology10 days ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement Azure platform services, landing-zone components, network integration, policy, logging, identity hooks, secrets management, and workload-hosting patterns.
- Develop and maintain version-controlled infrastructure-as-code modules using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Ansible, or approved equivalents.
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, registries, package repositories, image repositories, and artifact mirrors for disconnected delivery.
- Implement software supply-chain controls including SBOM generation, dependency and image scanning, signing, provenance, allowlists, and promotion gates.
- Develop hardened container images, deployment templates, configuration standards, and environment-specific overlays for applications, data services, and AI inference workloads.
- Automate platform provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, certificate and secret rotation, compliance checks, and routine operations.
- Integrate platform telemetry with Azure Monitor, Sentinel, Dynatrace, ServiceNow, and enterprise observability systems.
- Partner with Security and RMF staff to implement controls and produce reusable evidence from code, pipeline, scan, and configuration outputs.
- Troubleshoot complex platform failures, lead technical recovery when assigned, document root causes, and improve platform practices.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and help domain teams adopt approved platform patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related STEM field, or approved equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of cloud, platform, systems, or DevSecOps engineering experience, including at least 3 years delivering production platform automation.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and U.S. citizenship are required.
- Hands-on Azure or Azure Government experience with networking, compute, storage, identity integration, policy, monitoring, and secure configuration.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Ansible, or equivalent, including module design, state and change management, testing, and peer-reviewed promotion.
- Experience building or operating CI/CD and artifact or container services in enterprise or disconnected environments using GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus/Artifactory, Harbor, Kubernetes/OpenShift, or comparable platforms.
- Strong Linux and Windows administration fundamentals and proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or another automation language.
- Experience with container hardening, image and dependency scanning, SBOMs, secrets management, certificate handling, and rollback or recovery.
- Working knowledge of RMF/STIG controls, change management, operational acceptance, logging and audit, and classified data-handling requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical work, review code and designs, communicate risk early, and respond calmly during production issues.
- Preferred qualifications include Azure Administrator Associate or DevOps Engineer Expert certification, Terraform certification, GPU/AI platform experience, ML artifact or offline Python wheelhouse experience, ServiceNow change/CMDB integration, policy-as-code, compliance-as-code, infrastructure testing, chaos or resilience testing, and FinOps automation.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, HSA, disability, life, accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance options are available.
- 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 are offered.
- The company provides an AI-powered career development tool and internal mobility support.
- The role is full-time at 40 scheduled hours per week, onsite in Chantilly, Virginia, with no travel required.
- GDIT offers full-flex work weeks where possible and a military-friendly workplace.
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.