DevOps Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology

This position supports CI/CD for applications that are developed in-house that are both public and intranet facing.

QualificationsRequired:

• Ideal candidate must have at least 1 year experience as a web developer or Linux administrator and either at least 2 years of college or some related certification(s) (e.g. RCSA, Docker Certified Associate, or similar).
• If Linux administrator minimum 1-year experience with linux administration skills using technologies for web applications such as Apache, Nginx, and/or HAProxy
• If Developer minimum 1-year experience in an Agile development such as scrum or Kanban If Developer minimum 1-year experience with source code version control management, code merging, Git Flow

Preferred:

• Experience with Linux configuration management tools using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar technologies
• Experience with Bash Scripting, Java, Python, Groovy, and/or Ruby
• Experience with centralized application logging management tools such as Elastic stack, Graylog, Fluentd or similar technologies
• Experience with automated testing integration Experience with Atlassian tools such as Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence. Experience with open source tools.
• In most cases there is not a support mechanism in place accept for reading the documentation. Experience with CI/CD platform such as Jenkins or GitLab Experience with containerized technologies such as Docker

Description

Requisition Type: Regular

Works with Senior DevOps Engineer in support of the tools and processes to design, build, deploy, manage, and monitor of over 20 web applications in dev/staging/production environments. Supports Application servers (RHEL) with updates, user permissions, web application configuration management, and log management. Participates in Agile ritual meetings. The ideal candidate is one who thrives in an autonomous environment surrounded by unsolved problems.

Day-to- Day Duties

• Assisting development teams in deployments
• Troubleshooting delivery failures and application outages
• Modification of current CI pipelines (adding or changing environmental variables, testing steps, or build steps, etc)
• Documentation of current processes and updating documentation with process changes
• Automating processes to reduce time to deployment or increase efficiency
• Analysis of problem areas via logs and monitoring metrics to improve server and application performance
• Product Support Responsibilities

This position supports CI/CD for applications that are developed in-house that are both public and intranet facing. There are approximately 20 web applications that serve to either showcase scientific data via dashboards or curate scientific data. This position will also assist in support of the follow COTS applications: Jenkins, Portainer, Slack, Atlassian Bitbucket, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana, Docker, Apache, HAProxy, Ansible, Docker Registry, SonaType Nexus, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, among others.

Other

Associates Degree and/or Certification Must be able to have a Government Furnished Equipment (GFE Computer), access to the EPA VPN, and access to a VDI Pro machine furnished by VDI. Must be able to attain a background investigation that will enable the candidate to have a security clearance capable of administering systems that are critical to CCTE busines and mission. This is a high risk position.

The likely salary range for this position is $104,000 - $156,000, 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.

View information about benefits and our total rewards program.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

COVID-19 Vaccination

GDIT does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, GDIT may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.