Type of Requisition:Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:Top Secret
Public Trust/Other Required:None
Job Family:Software Engineering
Job Qualifications:Skills:CI/CD, DevOps, Software Factory
Certifications:None
Experience:8 + years of related experience
ship Required:Yes
Job Description:Job Description SummaryThe DevSecOps Software Developer SME will design, build, troubleshoot, and maintain automation and integration capabilities for mission-focused cloud and software delivery environments. The engineer will reduce manual work, improve repeatability, support secure delivery, and document solutions.
Meaningful Work and Personal Impact- Develop automation that improves consistency, reliability, and delivery speed.
- Support secure software delivery, operational sustainment, and compliance-driven engineering activities.
- Help convert engineering needs into practical scripts, tools, pipelines, documentation, and repeatable processes.
- Provide guidance to less experienced engineers and support team execution under the Cloud and Software Factory leads.
Key Duties and Responsibilities- Apply expert knowledge across the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, debugging, release, and sustainment.
- Design and maintain automation for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, operational support tasks, and integration workflows.
- Develop scripts, tools, services, and process improvements using common scripting, programming, automation, and cloud technologies.
- Analyze user and business needs, translate them into technical designs, and produce diagrams, workflows, and implementation plans.
- Create and maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and evidence artifacts.
- Support secure configuration management, vulnerability remediation, scan integration, and compliance support activities.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across application, operating system, infrastructure, cloud, network, identity, and CI/CD boundaries.
- May coach and provide guidance to less experienced professionals; may serve as a task lead.
- Perform additional duties as assigned in support of program delivery and operational sustainment.
What You Will Need to Succeed- Ability to work independently under limited supervision and follow through on assigned engineering work.
- Practical automation experience with the judgment to build supportable, maintainable solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and comfort working through incomplete requirements or logs.
- Ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, and status clearly to engineers and non-engineers.
- Understanding of security, documentation, change control, and operational stability in a mission environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in federal, DoW, cloud, classified, or other controlled environments.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD or comparable pipeline platforms and source-control workflows.
- Experience with cloud automation, event-driven workflows, containerized applications, and infrastructure as code.
- Cloud, DevOps, security, or infrastructure certifications relevant to the role.
Operating Environment- Engineering team supporting cloud infrastructure, software factory services, automation, security compliance, and production operations.
- Work may include both planned engineering buildout and troubleshooting of mission-impacting issues.
- The engineer will take technical directions from the Technical Delivery Manager, Deputy TDM, or Cloud/Software Factory lead as needed to complete required tasks.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, application, and customer teams.
Required Skills: Experience with scripting or software development, CI/CD or automation tooling, cloud or infrastructure services, source control, technical troubleshooting, and documentation.
Required Certification: DoW 8570/8140 baseline certification such as Security+ CE.
Clearance: Top Secret
Required Experience: 8+ years of related software development, automation, DevOps, cloud, systems engineering, or mission IT experience.
Preferred Skills: Exposure to PowerShell, Python, Bash, GitLab or similar CI/CD tools, containers, cloud services (Azure, AWS), infrastructure as code, security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and controlled or regulated environments.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACEAt 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
- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITYExplore a career in software development at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.
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The likely salary range for this position is $129,813 - $155,250. 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:10-25%
Telecommuting Options:Remote
Work Location:Any Location / Remote
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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.
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