Description
We are seeking a skilled DevSecOps Engineer to join our team at Iron EagleX (IEX), a subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in building, maintaining, and enhancing the infrastructure supporting a modern, microservice-based application platform.
Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated application build, test, security scanning, packaging, and deployment.
- Develop and maintain containerized development and deployment workflows using Docker.
- Deploy, configure, and operate applications and supporting services in Kubernetes environments.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts and reusable deployment configurations for microservices and platform components.
- Implement and maintain GitOps-based deployment workflows using tools such as Argo CD.
- Automate infrastructure, environment configuration, application deployment, and operational processes.
- Integrate security controls and automated security testing into the software development lifecycle.
- Work with engineering teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in application dependencies, container images, base images, and deployment configurations.
- Support secure service-to-service communication, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and zero trust architecture patterns.
- Improve platform observability through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, health monitoring, and alerting.
- Troubleshoot application, container, Kubernetes, networking, and deployment issues across development and operational environments.
- Work with developers to improve application deployability, reliability, configuration management, and operational readiness.
- Maintain reusable platform tooling and documentation that simplifies common development and deployment workflows.
- Participate in architecture and engineering reviews with an emphasis on security, reliability, automation, and maintainability.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Current Top Secret/SCI clearance.
- Strong experience with Linux-based development and operational environments.
- Strong experience with Docker and container-based application development.
- Experience deploying and operating applications using Kubernetes.
- Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or similar platforms.
- Experience with GitOps deployment practices and tools such as Argo CD.
- Familiarity with container, dependency, and vulnerability scanning tools and software supply chain security practices.
- Understanding of networking, TLS, DNS, ingress, service discovery, authentication, authorization, and secrets management in distributed systems.
- Familiarity with observability technologies for logging, metrics, tracing, and application health monitoring.
- Experience working with Git-based development workflows and modern Agile/DevOps engineering practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, communication, and collaboration skills.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
- 401K with company match.
- Competitive pay and paid time off.
- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.