DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualifications: Skills: Amazon CloudWatch, Continuous Integrations, Database Management, Systems Engineering Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: DEVOPS ENGINEER PRINCIPAL Transform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a DevOps Engineer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of a secure customer. You will play a crucial role in maintaining critical production applications. ● Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base. ● Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base. ● Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources. ● Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The DevOps Engineer Principal must have: ● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science ● Experience: 8+ years ● Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Polygraph ● US citizenship required AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a strong understanding of software/application development processes and methodologies. Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities. Solid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment. Required Skills – GIT, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch (Logs, Insights, Dashboards), EC2, ECS/ECR, Autoscaling, Elasticache, IAM, ELB, RDS, VPC, Secrets Manager, Lambda, Parameter Store, API Gateway, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Jenkins, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Containerization, Docker, Grafana, Loki. Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with multiple programming and scripting languages - Python, Java preferred. Able to maintain status of operations at all times - perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking. Architect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives Establish job orchestration strategies and approaches, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc). Administer production, staging, test and development environments. Understanding of access management and security groups. Experience with databases (Aurora, Maria db, MySQL). Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems. Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design. Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience. Able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work. Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents, monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage. Maintain operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Cloudwatch, Splunk). Experience working with container images and platforms (Docker/Kubernetes). Understanding DevOps/Continuous Integration, serverless framework. Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health. Understanding of microservice design to ensure best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing. Integrate with enterprise authentication services. Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks. Strong communication and interpersonal skills; shows tact with effective listening and follow through. On-call support may be required. At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. ● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities ● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals ● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off ● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation. #OpportunityOwned #GDITCareers #WeAreGDIT #JET #VA_2026Alumni #GDITEnhanced2026 The likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750. 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. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: None T elecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Herndon Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits a