DevSecOps Software Developer SME

Requirements

• Automation, Design, DevOps Certifications:
• None Experience:
• 10 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
• Yes
• Job Description:
• Job Description Summary
• The 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.
• Experience in federal, DoD, 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: DoD 8570/8140 baseline certification such as Security+ CE.
• Clearance: Top Secret
• Required Experience: 10+ 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 PLACE
• At 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 OP

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Additional Information

Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualifications:

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