DevOps Engineer
SAIC Arlington County, Virginia, United States
Defense and Space Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The DevOps Engineer will build and maintain internal developer platforms, automation scripts, and CLI utilities for both connected and air-gapped environments. They will manage cloud resources, CI/CD pipelines, and ensure secure artifact movement and vulnerability scanning.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and at least five years of experience, or equivalent work experience. A valid Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required, along with strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure, IaC tools, and scripting languages.
Full description
SAIC is seeking DevOps Engineer to join our team. The DevOps Engineer will work at the following SAIC location: Arlington, VA.
Note: This role is primarily onsite at our customer location. The selected candidate will be expected to work onsite a minimum of three (3) days per week. Onsite requirements are subject to change based on program needs.
Job Duties:
- Tool Development: Build internal DevOps tools, CLI utilities, and automation scripts.
- Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation) for both connected and air-gapped environments.
- GitLab for source control and pipelines; Terraform and Ansible as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
- Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Hyper-V sidecar.
- Trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans, evidence (JUnit/SBOM/scan) attached to every change, no manual “click-ops.”
- Checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments.
- Secret hygiene by default, secrets management familiarity, and comfort with vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree and five (5) years experience; Additional work experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
- Go-based CLI tools and API integrations to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong background deploying and managing cloud resources (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with tools such as Terraform.
- Scripting language such as PowerShell or Python for pipeline and OS task automation.
- Proficient with Linux command line and shell scripting (Bash).
- Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS).
- Configuration management experience using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using Docker containers.
Clearance Requirements:
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligible SCI; SCI access must have been debriefed within the last two (2) years.
Desired Skills:
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) experience, RHEL/Windows patching familiarity, and strong documentation habits for handoffs and audits.
- Experience utilizing Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.
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