About the Role:
In this role at General Dynamics Land Systems, you are the Enterprise DevSecOps Architect working with internal and external partners to deliver quality, on-time GDLS Software. Together with the team, you will support successful implementation of DevSecOps CICD pipelines through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.
Company Information
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
What We Offer:
Starting your career or you are an experience professional, we offer a Total Rewards package that is Impactful and built for you.

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending
• competitive base pay, incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
• 401k Match (6%)
• Educational Assistance
• 9-80 Work Schedule (This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.)
• On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
• Onsite Cafeteria, remodeled with new equipment Fitness Center, and Outdoor fitness track

Responsibilities/ Assignments
As a DevSecOps Architect, you will:

• Work with engineering teams, SW architects, and IT to develop pipelines that work for individual programs while developing and implementing the enterprise approach of commonization and standardization across the SW engineering department.
• Continuously review and improve the DevSecOps CICD pipelines to ensure a seamless end-to-end process from Build to Deploy across all environments.
• Configure, administer, maintain, and optimize CICD tools like Gitlab, Artifactory, SonarQube and ensure their robust availability in the pipeline.
• Partner with IT and vendors to evaluate tool upgrades, plug-ins, and critical tickets. Work with IT and teams across the organization to troubleshoot DSO issues.
• Report the status of pipeline implementation through metrics.

• Embrace the subject matter expert role to lead best practices across DevSecOps, CICD, Rapid Release, and related end-to-end automation. Train and coach global team members to ensure proper use of all tools.

• Stay current with relevant emerging technologies and assess their application to DevSecOps. Develop a roadmap to build new capabilities and features into GDLS pipelines. Conduct POCs on roadmap items to ensure functionality before full-scale integration.

In this role, you are the Enterprise DevSecOps Architect working with internal and external partners to deliver quality, on-time GDLS SW. Together with the team, you will support successful implementation of DevSecOps CICD pipelines through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.
Candidates should have demonstrated strengths and experience in some of the following areas:

• Development experience using platforms such as Java, Python, .NET, JS
• Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Groovy, or Artifactory. You have demonstratable experience developing and implementing pipelines
• Experience working with Maven or Gradle
• Experience maintaining production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation
• Experience performing complex troubleshooting and performance tuning of various issues within the CICD tool chain using industry standard monitoring tools
• Effective communication and attention to detail
• Well versed with SAFe/Agile

Other beneficial experience:

• IT security practices including encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing
• Experience with security scanning tools such as X-ray, CheckMarx, Twistlock, or gitleaks
• Management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure
• Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)
• Experience in Java application development, deployment, configuration, and Unix
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications / What you must have

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10 or more years of experience working with Industry standard DevSecOps CI/CD Tools including: source code repository management, CI pipeline configuration, and/or binary repository management.
• Be a self-starter and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• The candidate will need to have strong written and oral communication skills.

Additional Information

• This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance. (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)
• Prior experience working on ground based Military Vehicles desired.
• Able to bring continuous improvement processes and methodologies to the position.
• Able to work overtime when required.
• Limited travel may be required.

GDLS considers factors such as, scope/responsibilities of the position, candidate experience, education/training background, in addition to local market comparable and business considerations when extending an offer.