About the role

What will you do at General Dynamics Information Technology?

Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top

Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job

Qualifications

Skills: Cloud Architectures, DevOps, Testing Certifications:
CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA Experience: 7 + years of related
experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description

DevOps Team Lead, a Key

Personnel Role, requires a unique blend of cloud engineering expertise,

operational rigor, and leadership. As a DevOps Team Lead, you understand how to

build resilient systems, ensure operational excellence, and maintain secure,

compliant environments at scale. We’re looking for someone like you to ensure

the reliability and performance of critical systems hosted in OpenShift. At

GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a DevOps Team Lead you will help ensure

today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a DevOps Team Lead

joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO. HOW A

DEVOPS TEAM LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT You will lead the implementation of

resilient cloud architecture, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and

proactive monitoring to meet the stringent performance, compliance, and security

requirements of public sector operations. Job Duties: Leads DevOps team to

support customer system’s operations, sustainment, maintenance, and

customer/user support in multiple environments across several security enclaves.

Direct and manage DevOps team for investigation and resolution of customer

issues, system discrepancies, and other required maintenance activities.

Coordinate and perform software problem analysis, modification testing, system,

and security administration. Create, maintain, update, new and current

documentation related to operations, sustainment, maintenance and customer

support (SLAs, SOPs, etc). Ability to receive code from development team to

perform system builds and hardening. Perform automated testing and security

scans Manage and document system security and work with Development to ensure

all systems are security compliant. Author helm charts to deploy systems to

multiple OpenShift environments (Dev & Ops) Responsible for Infrastructure as

Code and configuration management Manage system level PKI certifications,

including NPEs, in all system environments. Based on customer requirements,

design, implement and monitor user and system metrics for all users and systems

across all environments. WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED Skills/Qualifications

Required: TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph Bachelor's Degree in Information

Technology or STEM field 7+ years of demonstrated experience in leading a team

to perform system sustainment, administration, security, integration, and

testing on a program or project (performing search and discovery across 15

environments) 5+ years demonstrated experience with DoW and ICD Cyber Security

Requirements

and implementation. 3+ years of experience with cloud services.
Current Security+ certification Experience working with an Agile Development
team utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Experience providing input to
the team involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as user
manuals, system documentation, and training materials. Knowledgeable of
containerization, monitoring & logging, and network & security Desired: 5+ years
demonstrated experience with geospatial information system operations and
sustainment. 5+ years demonstrated experience in application software operations
and sustainment. Current CISSP or CISM certification. Familiarity with
Configuration Management and Request for Change process for review and
assessment Experience with delivery of an integrated software development
solution. Experience in System Engineering and project management. Knowledge
and/or experience with NGA enterprise products. Working experience with CI/CD
pipelines (Gitlab, ArgoCD, or similar) Working experience with Service+ and Jira
to track user issues as well as development stories. Understand basic networking
TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift
In-depth knowledge, principles, and methods of enterprise solutions. Be familiar
with researching, designing, developing, and/or modifying enterprise-wide cloud
solutions and/or applications software. Designs, develops, codes, tests and
debugs highly complex new software products or makes significant enhancements to
existing software. Develops and applies advanced methods, theories, and research
techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced software
applications and problems. Factors emerging technologies and product
supportability into design and implementation. Ability to manage storage
capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements. Prepares reports on
analyses, findings, and project progress, and presents results to management
and/or customer personnel. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more
of Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.) Comfortable
using Python and BASH to create systems tooling Provides incident resolution to
users and customers. Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code
repositories Experience with software system design, able to create application
architecture for new applications Experience with integrating security
components with applications and databases Location: On Site US Citizenship
Required The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. 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 Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA MO St.
Louis 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 and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT
offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time
off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental,
military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to
protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability
benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical
illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We
regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are
competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. Our
Identity Verification Process: As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to
complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and
artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity
fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve
the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By
proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric
data for identity verification and security purposes. About Our Work: We are
GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers
technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S.
government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the
power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge
of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading
mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development. Join
our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events
at gdit.com/tc. Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities /
Protected Veterans Opportunity Owned From working with technologies like AI,
cyber and cloud to careers in intelligence and health, we offer endless
opportunities to apply your expertise to create a safer, smarter world. For more
information about GDIT's Privacy Policy, click here: Privacy Policy | GDIT

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud ArchitectureDevOpsOpenShiftKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD PipelinesPythonBashSecurity+ CertificationAgile SAFeHelm ChartsSystem HardeningNetwork SecurityPKI CertificationMonitoring & LoggingTeam LeadershipTerraformCloudformationAWS CDKAnsibleChefPuppetGitlabArgoCDJiraSecurity+CISSPCISMTS/SCICI PolygraphSAFeTCP/IPDNSLoad BalancingNGAGeospatial Information SystemCyber SecurityICDDoDSystem EngineeringAWSAgile

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