DevSecOps Engineer

An Iron EagleX Opportunity

Iron EagleX, a GDIT company, contributes to the U.S. government’s mission of protecting our nation and enables our customers to make quicker decisions and act faster than our adversaries.

Clearance Level

Top Secret/SCI

Category

Cyber and IT Risk Management

Location

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

(Hybrid Workplace)

Key Skills For Success

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Docker (Software)

Kubernetes

**REQ#:**RQ230272

**Public Trust:**None

**Requisition Type:**Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.

Job Description

YOUR IMPACT

Own your opportunity to work with the largest government agency in the nation. Make an impact by advancing the Department of War’s mission to keep our country safe and secure.

OUR COMPANY

Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Iron EagleX is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to build, maintain, and enhance the infrastructure supporting a modern, microservice-based application platform. You will collaborate with software engineers, security teams, and platform stakeholders to automate and secure application build, testing, deployment, and operations across multiple environments. This role is ideal for someone comfortable working across development and infrastructure, troubleshooting distributed systems, embedding security throughout the software delivery lifecycle, and enabling teams to deliver reliable, secure software without unnecessary operational complexity.

JOB DUTIES (INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

• 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, including dependency, container, source code, and vulnerability scanning.

• 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.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related role.

• 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.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Clearance: Current TS/SCI Clearance is required

• Experience:8+ years of related experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

• Role requirements: Work is onsite on Ft Bragg, NC, three days on site hybrid schedule.

• Due to US Government Contract Requirements, only US Citizens are eligible for this role

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCE:

• Building and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines that automate application builds, testing, security scanning, packaging, and deployment.

• Developing containerized workflows and operating microservice-based applications across Docker and Kubernetes environments.

• Implementing reusable Helm charts and GitOps deployment workflows using tools such as GitLab CI/CD and Argo CD.

• Integrating vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and other security controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

• Collaborating with software engineers, security teams, and platform stakeholders to improve automation, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.

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, competitive pay and paid time off

• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results. #iexjobs

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

8 + years of related experience

• may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. 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.

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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