[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

GDIT has an opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to design, build, automate, and maintain cloud-native deployment and container orchestration capabilities on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role is responsible for expanding enterprise CI/CD automation using GitLab, enabling secure and scalable deployments, and supporting mission-focused application teams across the ICAM ecosystem. This is a fully remote position.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact:

• The ideal candidate is a hands-on DevOps engineer with deep experience in AKS, GitLab pipeline automation, container orchestration, and cloud-native operational patterns.
• You will support engineering teams by providing secure, repeatable build-and-release automation while ensuring services are deployed reliably and monitored effectively.
• Your work directly improves deployment velocity, operational resilience, and modernization efforts in support of enterprise ICAM mission requirements.

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, including node pools, workload identities, ingress controllers, and security configurations.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build automation, containerization, quality gates, security scanning, and production release workflows.
• Build and maintain Helm charts, YAML manifests, templates, and reusable AKS deployment patterns.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM) for provisioning and managing cluster and cloud resources.
• Collaborate with application teams to containerize applications, troubleshoot deployments, and optimize runtime performance.
• Implement and maintain observability tools (Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK) for monitoring cluster health, logs, and metrics.
• Ensure secure handling of secrets, certificates, and configuration values using Key Vault or equivalent tools.
• Troubleshoot AKS workloads, GitLab CI/CD failures, pipeline performance, Kubernetes scaling issues, and service connectivity problems.
• Document operational procedures, IaC patterns, deployment workflows, troubleshooting guides, and DevOps standards.
• Support Zero Trust, compliance, and enterprise security requirements through hardened DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 5 years’ experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Minimum of an active Secret security clearance.
• Current DoD 8140 certification (Security+ CE or higher).

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes operations, container lifecycle, networking, scaling, and security.
• Expertise with GitLab (runners, pipeline configuration, security scanning, artifact management).
• Proficient with Docker, Helm, YAML, and Kubernetes manifests.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
• Ability to troubleshoot cluster issues, deployments, pods, services, and containerized workloads.
• Excellent documentation and cross-team collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.