Lead DevSecOps Systems Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

Lead DevSecOps Systems Engineer at GDIT focusing on secure platform experiences for development teams and evolving cloud footprint with advanced technologies.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $212,500 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudDockerKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and scale robust, secure CI/CD pipelines, data integrations, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across project-based deployments.
Partner with development teams to seamlessly integrate, automate, and monitor security tool components within automated workflows.
Define guidelines and standards for AWS Cloud and Kubernetes environments, implementing advanced solutions for system security, backups, and redundancy.
Champion DevSecOps culture by mentoring junior/mid-level engineers, educating teams on modern tooling, and resolving complex configuration or performance issues.
Leverage Generative AI engineering tools (such as Claude, Gemini, Copilot) to accelerate the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), pipeline scripts, and automation workflows.
Optimize cloud infrastructure and container ecosystems to ensure cost-efficiency, scalability, and strict adherence to governance standards.
Drive engineering excellence by guiding the preparation of comprehensive technical documentation, processes, and procedures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BA/BS Degree and 8+ years of relevant experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).
Proven experience architecting and managing scalable AWS Cloud infrastructure.
Hands-on experience deploying or supporting Generative AI development workflows, with specific familiarity utilizing AWS Bedrock or similar cloud-native AI/ML services.
Strong expertise deploying, performance tuning, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters utilizing Helm, Docker, container registries, and secure build tools like Kaniko.
Deep hands-on experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code configurations using Terraform.
Proven experience designing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, automated security gates, and advanced Git version control workflows.
Strong proficiency in automation scripting (Ansible, Bash, or Python) and Linux/Unix system administration (RHEL or CentOS preferred).
Active Security+ Certification and familiarity with government standards for security, identity, and data management (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP, IAM).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
Other 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AWS CloudKubernetesGenerative AITerraformAnsibleBashPythonLinux/Unix

Soft Skills

mentoringeducatingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipguidancetechnical documentation

Certifications

BA/BS DegreeSecurity+ Certification