CI/CD and Platform Automation Engineer

Location: Vienna, VA – on-site with up to 10% travel.

Clearance: Active TS/SCI with polygraph required.

About the role

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, and 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.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph (required to be considered).
• 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.

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.

Pay

Target salary range: $160,001 – $200,000.