Deploy Automation Engineer

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being and support of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

We are GDIT. As one of the largest IT and mission services providers to the government, we own our opportunities to better enable healthcare organizations to identify theirs.

You can make GDIT your place. You make it your own by turning obstacles into action. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you’ll play an important role in providing the technologies and services that millions of healthcare professionals depend on, every day. Our work depends on a Deploy Automation Engineer joining our team remotely to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) activities.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. GDIT supports CMS with new functionality development for Plan Management, Eligibility & Enrollment (E&E), Financial Management, Marketplace Consumer Record, and other Marketplace Health Exchange functional areas. As a Deploy Automation Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

Our work depends on Deploy Automation Engineer joining our team to analyze, design, code, and test multiple components of automated deployment pipelines across multiple application systems, and to perform maintenance, enhancements and troubleshooting of deployment tools. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.

At GDIT, we put our people first. As a Deploy Automation Engineer, a typical day will include:

  • Seting-up, maintaining, and performing ongoing development of continuous build/ integration infrastructure.
  • Creating and maintaining fully automated Continuous Integration (CI) build processes for multiple Linux environment environments.
  • Creating/updating build and deployment scripts.
  • Supporting Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) tools integration/ operations/ change management, and maintenance.
  • Supporting full automation of CI/Testing.
  • Developing policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
  • On-boarding/ training and supporting developers from source control, through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards.
  • Enabling DevOps by moving code from Dev/ Test to Staging and Production.
  • Troubleshooting issues along the CI/CD pipeline.
Required Skills:
  • Bachelor’s Degree and/or 5+ years of relevant hands-on Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) )/DevOps Development experience on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Infrastructure
  • Expert experience with RedHat Ansible, Jenkins, and with GIT
  • Advanced experience with Linux Operations
  • Advanced experience with Packer, Groovy, OpenShift, and Ansible Automation Platform
  • Advanced experience with Sonar, Nexus, and Docker
  • Advanced experience with Bash and Java
  • Hands-on experience with Python and Terraform
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and frameworks such as, but not limited to: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban
  • Must be able to obtain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
  • Must have established residency in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years.
Preferred Skills:
  • Proficient with Scala
  • Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
  • Strong organizational, attention-to-detail, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
  • AWS Certification(s)
  • Agile certification in SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, CSM or other agile certifications
  • Healthcare Service Industry or Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) experience
  • Experience working with JIRA and Confluence
  • Ability to interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority
WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:
  • 401K with company match
  • Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
  • Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
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
  • Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
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