# DevOps Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Any Location / Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $127,500 - $172,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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 is a fully remote position.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on DevOps engineer with deep experience in AKS, GitLab pipeline automation, container orchestration, and cloud-native operational patterns.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 5 years’ experience.

- Minimum of an active Secret security clearance.

- Current DoW 8140 certification (Security+ CE or higher).

Technical Skills:

- 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:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Azure Devops
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Docker Kubernetes Architecture
- GitLab
- Terraform
- Bicep
- ARM
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- YAML

### Nice to have
- ArgoCD
- Flux
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Consul Connect

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