General Dynamics Information Technology · 1 day ago
Continuous Integration /Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Subject Matter Expert
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$166K/yr - $224K/yr
10+ years expGeneral Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting and technology solutions. They are seeking a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment Subject Matter Expert to build and operate secure delivery pipelines across on-prem and multi-cloud environments, ensuring efficient deployment practices and compliance with federal standards.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingConsultingCyber SecurityInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and operate continuous deployment practices that move changes safely and automatically from 'approved' to 'live', with policy, security, and evidence built in
Own the last mile to production
Align day-to-day practices to federal frameworks (NIST RMF/CSF, Zero Trust/TIC 3.0, SSDF) and sustain ATO requirements through automation
Replace legacy deployment practices with gated, observable, and reversible deployments that run without drama
Bake risk controls into the pipeline, pre-prod contract tests, change approvals as code, traffic shaping, health checks, and error-budget-aware promotion
Standardize a 'paved road' to production, so teams spend their time building features, not handcrafting releases
Ensure leadership sees accurate, real-time status and rollback readiness; auditors see consistent records and evidence generated automatically with every deploy
Qualification
Required
10 + years of related experience
Bachelor's Degree. In lieu of a degree, an additional four years of related experience required
10+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering with hands-on ownership of production deployments at enterprise scale; 3+ years in regulated or federal environments (VA/DoD/DHS/HHS or highly regulated industry)
Demonstrated results improving DORA metrics (deployment frequency ↑, lead time ↓, change failure rate ≤5–10%, MTTR ↓20–40%) using progressive delivery and automated rollback
Demonstrated results improving delivery KPIs (e.g., lead time ↓30–50%, change failure rate ≤5–10%, MTTR ↓20–40%) while sustaining ATO/ConMon obligations
Proven implementation of feature-flag-driven releases, blue/green and canary strategies, and zero-downtime database changes (online migrations, backward-compatible schemas)
Experience integrating deployments with ITSM (automated change models/approvals, deployment records, back-out plans) and generating audit-ready evidence for RMF/ConMon
Track record operating in multi-vendor/SIAM environments with cross-team release trains and joint incident 'swarming'
Deep experience with tools/patterns for blue/green, canary, and traffic shaping (e.g., gateways, service mesh, rollout controllers); automated promotion based on SLOs, synthetic checks, and real-user signals; automatic rollback on guardrail breach
Design of flag strategies (kill switches, dark launches, percentage rollouts), flag lifecycle hygiene, and blast-radius containment; governance to prevent 'flag debt'
OPA/Conftest, Sentinel, Checkov, Cloud Custodian; required tags/encryption, CIS/STIG baselines; pre-merge and pre-deploy enforcement
GitOps/desired-state reconciliation (e.g., Argo CD/Flux) for infra and apps; immutable artifacts; environment drift detection and auto-reconcile; promotion through environment rings
Kubernetes/OpenShift operations (admission control, image policies, mTLS/service mesh), serverless and event-driven patterns; blue/green & canary releases
Telemetry-based health checks, canary analysis, error rates/latency budgets, capacity/perf gates, and automated smoke/contract tests in production-like paths
Policy-as-code (tags, encryption, network controls), SSDF/supply-chain controls (SBOM, signed artifacts, provenance), secrets management, and OSCAL/RMF evidence emission per deploy
ServiceNow (or equivalent) change models, risk scoring, approvals-as-code, deployment records, and back-out plans tied to pipeline events; status page and comms hooks for RevOps
Fault injection/chaos experiments in pre-prod, controlled in-prod experiments with guardrails; DR runbooks validated via scripted drills
Ephemeral environments, right-sized runners, cache strategies, and parallelization; collaboration with FinOps on cost per deploy and pipeline ROI
Designs deployments to measurable targets, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR, SLO burn and publishes trends transparently
Explains rollout plans and risks in plain language for executives, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders; writes crisp runbooks and 'go/hold/rollback' criteria
Coaches teams onto the paved road; runs release readiness reviews; builds a community of practice for deployment excellence
Uses counter-metrics (e.g., speed paired with quality) to prevent gaming; enforces 'small, reversible changes' and safe-to-fail defaults
Coordinates cross-vendor release trains, enforces handoff OLAs, and leads post-incident learning that becomes pipeline policy
Maintains versioned deployment standards and exception processes; ensures OneVA TRM alignment where applicable; keeps documentation current
Preferred
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Application Developer
Docker Certified Associate
Benefits
Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you build your skills and own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and 10 company-paid holidays
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
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
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
Company
General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology is an IT consulting company that specializes in cyber security, AI, and quantum computing. It is a sub-organization of General Dynamics.
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