DevOps Engineer

Req ID: RQ231762

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Confidential

Public Trust/Other Required: Other

Job Family: Software Engineering

Skills:

AWS CloudFormation,DevOps,DevOps Tools,DevSecOps,Infrastructure As Code (IaC)

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

Job Description:

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team to support Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Agile Tools, Licensing and Shared Services (ATLAS) program.

NOTE: This position is contingent upon contract award, projected in January 2027.

As a DevOps Engineer supporting the ATLAS software-delivery ecosystem, you will be trusted to operate secure enterprise platforms and automate reliable build, test, deployment, and observability services. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team supporting CMS digital modernization and the delivery of secure, scalable healthcare services. You will install, configure, operate and maintain DevOps tools, CI/CD build agents and supporting server, container and cloud infrastructure under the direction of senior engineering staff. Perform tool upgrades, patching, backups, user and access provisioning, and license management. Monitor system health, utilization and logs, and respond to alerts and incidents, escalating complex issues as required. You will also develop scripts to automate routine tasks, maintain system documentation and runbooks, and support application teams onboarding to tools and pipelines.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT:

• Collaborating with developers, senior engineers, security teams, and CMS stakeholders to improve platform reliability, developer experience, and software-delivery outcomes.

• Operating and optimizing CloudBees CI on AWS EKS, including Jenkins controllers, Kubernetes build agents, GitHub integrations, and pipelines supporting approximately 70,000 builds per month.

• Administering Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, JMaaS, and Structurizr while maintaining dashboards, alerts, quality gates, performance tests, access controls, and platform integrations.

• Automating infrastructure, configuration, testing, security scanning, and deployments; monitoring platform health and resolving build, deployment, telemetry, and environment issues.

• Applying CMS and NIST security requirements, supporting continuous ATO activities, and maintaining runbooks, architecture diagrams, pipeline documentation, and release and change records.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED - REQUIRED:

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may be considered in place of a degree.

Years of Experience: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, or systems administration.

Technical Skills:

• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using CloudBees CI, Jenkins, or a comparable enterprise platform.

• Experience with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes or EKS, GitHub integrations, and dynamically provisioned build agents.

• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer, Python, Bash, or comparable technologies.

• Experience integrating automated testing, code-quality controls, vulnerability scanning, and container security into CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, patching, secure configurations, and vulnerability remediation.

• Understanding of CMS or federal security requirements, NIST guidance, FISMA controls, and ATO processes.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across pipelines, applications, containers, observability platforms, and cloud infrastructure.

Schedule: CMS business hours (9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET) for non-production support; on-call rotation for 24×7 production support

Location: Remote (CONUS), with the ability to travel to CMS Headquarters in Bethesda, MD several times a year.

Travel: Up to 10%

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Relevant AWS, CloudBees, Kubernetes, Grafana, SonarQube, DevOps, or security certification.

• Experience administering CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center, managed controllers, and Kubernetes-based build agents at enterprise scale.

• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, JMeter/JMaaS, Structurizr, Artifactory, Xray, or test-management platforms.

• Experience creating dashboards, Prometheus scrape targets, alerting rules, SonarQube Quality Gates, and performance-test integrations.

• Familiarity with SSO, SAML, LDAP, RBAC, secrets management, and least-privilege access.

• Experience with high availability, zero-downtime upgrades, SRE practices, DORA metrics, and AWS cost optimization.

• Experience supporting CMS or another federal agency within continuous A&A, FISMA, and ATO boundaries.

• Experience supporting CMS, federal healthcare, or another federal government environment.

• Familiarity with CMS information security requirements and federal security and compliance frameworks.

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

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

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The likely salary range for this position is $114,750 - $155,250. 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.

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, 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. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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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