Lead DevSecOps Systems Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance resilient, secure CI/CD pipelines, data integrations, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for project-focused deployments.

• Collaborate with development teams to effectively integrate, automate, and monitor security tool components within automated workflows.

• Establish guidelines and standards for AWS Cloud and Kubernetes environments, implementing sophisticated solutions for system security, backups, and redundancy.

• Advocate for a DevSecOps culture by mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, educating teams on contemporary tools, and addressing intricate configuration or performance challenges.

• Utilize Generative AI engineering tools (including Claude, Gemini, Copilot) to expedite the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), pipeline scripts, and automation workflows.

• Enhance cloud infrastructure and container ecosystems to ensure cost-effectiveness, scalability, and strict compliance with governance standards.

• Promote engineering excellence by leading the creation of detailed technical documentation, processes, and procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• BA/BS Degree and 8+ years of relevant experience (or a comparable combination of education and experience).

• Demonstrated experience in architecting and managing scalable AWS Cloud infrastructure.

• Practical experience in deploying or supporting Generative AI development workflows, with particular knowledge of AWS Bedrock or similar cloud-native AI/ML services.

• Strong expertise in deploying, performance tuning, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters using Helm, Docker, container registries, and secure build tools like Kaniko.

• Extensive hands-on experience in building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code configurations with Terraform.

• Proven record in designing and implementing comprehensive CI/CD pipelines, automated security gates, and advanced Git version control workflows.

• High proficiency in automation scripting (Ansible, Bash, or Python) and Linux/Unix system administration (RHEL or CentOS preferred).

• Current Security+ Certification and knowledge of government standards for security, identity, and data management (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP, IAM).

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and wellness packages to support you and your family.

• A robust 401(k) program with a competitive company match.

• Access to paid advanced certifications, higher education, and dedicated professional growth opportunities to keep your skills sharp.

• Generous paid vacation, floating holidays, and time off to ensure you maintain peak performance.

• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness, along with an additional 10 paid holidays each year.

• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program offers up to 160 hours of paid leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Additional 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.