Lead DevSecOps Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology1 month ago
Chantilly, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$170k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and evolve an unclassified DevSecOps environment for multi-team software development and modernization.
- Define the DevSecOps strategy, technical vision, roadmaps, reference architectures, templates, and playbooks across the application portfolio.
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and data pipelines for Intelligence Community applications and mission workflows.
- Embed static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, secrets management, compliance checks, and other security controls into delivery pipelines.
- Create code assessment frameworks, modernization recommendations, metrics, and dashboards covering application health, technical debt, security posture, delivery performance, and modernization progress.
- Evaluate and standardize container, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, security, observability, and delivery tools across teams.
- Partner with systems engineering and solution architecture leaders to align DevSecOps practices with architecture, integration, performance, and customer objectives.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development, infrastructure, and security engineers.
- Implement observability, monitoring, logging, incident response, reliability, availability, and performance improvement patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, software engineering, or systems engineering.
- Demonstrated experience leading DevOps or DevSecOps implementations for complex software portfolios or large programs.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
- Experience designing and implementing data pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, NiFi, Airflow, Spark, or cloud-native data services.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Strong secure software development background, including integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets management into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience supporting or integrating systems for the Intelligence Community or similar high-security environments.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret SCI with Polygraph clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with IDIQ or multi-award contract vehicles, AWS, Azure, GCP, or IC-specific clouds, cloud-native architectures, microservices, API-first and event-driven systems, observability stacks, IC security and compliance frameworks, code assessment methodologies, multi-team standardization, and relevant AWS/Azure DevOps, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD, CISSP, Security+, or SAFe DevOps certifications.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Chantilly, Virginia, with no travel required and a 40-hour scheduled work week.
- Medical, dental, vision, HSA, and 401(k) plan options with company matching.
- 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.
- Full-flex work weeks where possible and other work/life balance benefits.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesOpenShiftPrometheusSplunkTerraform
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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.