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General Dynamics Information Technology · 2 days ago

Continuous Integration /Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Subject Matter Expert

United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$166K/yr - $224K/yr

10+ years exp

General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government. They are seeking a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Subject Matter Expert to design and implement secure, reliable, and efficient delivery pipelines, ensuring compliance with federal frameworks and improving deployment practices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingConsultingCyber SecurityInformation Technology

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

Release orchestration, progressive delivery (blue/green, canary, feature flags), automated rollback, post-deployment verification against SLOs, and end-to-end traceability in ITSM

Make deployments predictable for executives, painless for engineers, invisible to end users, and auditable for compliance

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

Cut change failure, shrink MTTR, and raise deployment frequency without increasing incidents

Standardize a 'paved road' to production, so teams spend their time building features, not handcrafting releases; leadership sees accurate, real-time status and rollback readiness; auditors see consistent records and evidence generated automatically with every deploy

Design deployments to measurable targets, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR, SLO burn and publishes trends transparently

Explain rollout plans and risks in plain language for executives, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders; write crisp runbooks and 'go/hold/rollback' criteria

Coach teams onto the paved road; run release readiness reviews; build a community of practice for deployment excellence

Coordinate cross-vendor release trains, enforce handoff OLAs, and lead post-incident learning that becomes pipeline policy

Maintain versioned deployment standards and exception processes; ensure OneVA TRM alignment where applicable; keep documentation current

Qualification

Continuous DeploymentContinuous IntegrationDevOpsSecurity ComplianceRelease OrchestrationFeature ManagementDeployment AutomationContainers & PlatformsITSM IntegrationOutcome OrientationEnablement & LeadershipRisk Management MindsetCollaboration in SIAMDiscipline & GovernanceCost & Performance AwarenessClear Communication

Required

10 + years of related experience

Education: 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

Public Trust security clearance level

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

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

Rest and recharge with paid vacation and 10 company-paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Paid military leave

Paid bereavement leave

Paid jury duty leave

Short and long-term disability benefits

Life insurance

Accidental death and dismemberment insurance

Personal accident insurance

Critical illness insurance

Business travel and accident insurance

Company

General Dynamics Information Technology

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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.

Founded in 1999

Falls Church, Virginia, USA

10001+ employees