Senior DevOps CI/CD Engineer – AWS (DevSecOps Champion)
General Dynamics Information Technology3 months ago
Fairfax, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$145k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and enforce secure CI/CD and DevSecOps standards, patterns, guardrails, and secure development practices for AWS-hosted applications.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
- Lead CloudFormation and Terraform infrastructure-as-code implementations with secure configuration baselines.
- Automate secure provisioning, configuration, and deployment across development, test, and production AWS accounts.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls.
- Integrate security testing and compliance checks into delivery workflows and ensure solutions align with contractual, regulatory, and internal cyber requirements.
- Promote signed builds into air-gapped, classified, or network-isolated environments, including artifact transfer and post-deployment verification.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, reusable pipeline templates, documentation, proposal support, technical reviews, and risk assessment input.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cyber Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of relevant IT experience, including significant DevOps, DevSecOps, and production CI/CD experience.
- Hands-on AWS experience with services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail in security-sensitive or regulated environments.
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong experience with CloudFormation, Terraform, secure configuration management, and automation.
- Experience with signed builds, air-gapped or classified environments, artifact transfer procedures, and post-deployment verification.
- Experience with Docker, ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes, including image scanning, runtime security, and least-privilege controls.
- Experience integrating security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows.
- Experience with NIST 800-53/171, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, or customer-specific cyber requirements.
- U.S. citizenship and current Secret clearance, with the ability to maintain or obtain Secret clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS certifications, Security/DevSecOps certifications, secure cloud architecture experience, enterprise DevSecOps or security transformation experience, and experience with AWS Organizations, landing zones, and centralized security services.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Fairfax, Virginia, with 40 scheduled hours per week and 50–75% travel.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account options, and a 401(k) plan with company matching.
- Flexible work weeks where possible and 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.
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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.