What are the responsibilities and job description for the CI/CD and Platform Automation Engineer position at SAIC?
Job ID: 2615269
Location: Vienna, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-08-04
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is hiring a DevOps or CI/CD Engineer to support automated, secure, high-performance CI/CD pipelines for Esri technologies. You will design next-generation build and release infrastructure for cloud and on-prem environments.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Location: Vienna, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-08-04
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is hiring a DevOps or CI/CD Engineer to support automated, secure, high-performance CI/CD pipelines for Esri technologies. You will design next-generation build and release infrastructure for cloud and on-prem environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins.
- Architect Docker-based build and test environments.
- Manage Python packaging workflows and complex Conda environments.
- Administer build infrastructure: runners, nodes, registries.
- Implement automated security scanning, SBOMs, and artifact compliance.
- Develop monitoring frameworks for build performance and reliability.
- Modernize legacy workflows into fully automated processes.
- Oversee secure software supply chain practices.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI is required to be considered for this role.
- Willing and able to pass a polygraph.
- 1 years of DevOps/CI/CD or platform automation experience.
- Hands-on experience with YAML pipelines.
- Experience with Python or JavaScript scripting.
- Experience with Ansible, AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar IaC tools.
- Docker expertise; Linux familiarity.
- Understanding of dependency management, artifact signing, and SBOM tools.
- Exposure to AWS/Azure compute and storage services.
- Bachelor's in CS, Engineering, DevOps, or equivalent experience.
- Active or Current TS/SCI.
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree.
- Experience with ESRI products
- Release-engineering or automated operations experience.
- Experience in SAST/DAST or container security scanning.
- Kubernetes experience.
- DevSecOps exposure.
- Security certification.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum.
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Salary : $160,001 - $200,000