Lead Systems Engineer – AWS Cloud

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce secure CI/CD and DevSecOps standards, patterns, and guardrails for AWS-hosted applications, in alignment with GDIT Cyber Security Policy, Cyber Security Handbook, and Cloud/Security standards.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with integrated security scanning, compliance checks, approvals, and testing.
• Lead infrastructure-as-code (IaC) implementations (CloudFormation, Terraform) with embedded security and configuration baselines, supporting secure provisioning of AWS environments.
• Automate secure environment provisioning, configuration, and deployments across development, test, and production AWS accounts, in line with cyber and IT risk management requirements.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, centralized logging) to support secure, observable, and auditable delivery pipelines.
• Integrate identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls into CI/CD workflows as part of DevSecOps practices.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines and AWS solutions comply with applicable contractual and regulatory requirements (e.g., NIST 800-53/171, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 27001) and internal cyber standards.
• Collaborate with application development, cloud platform, cyber security, IT risk, and operations teams to ensure architectures are “DevSecOps-ready” and align with secure development standards.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and documentation for project teams adopting DevSecOps and secure CI/CD practices; develop reusable secure pipeline templates and patterns.
• Support proposals, technical reviews, and risk assessments where secure CI/CD, cloud security, and DevSecOps capabilities are required, including input to labor category mapping and staffing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cyber Security, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Typically 8+ years of relevant IT experience, with significant experience in DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD for production systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch/CloudTrail) in security-sensitive or regulated environments.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using one or more modern platforms (AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform) and secure configuration management and automation.
• Demonstrated experience promoting signed builds into an air-gapped, classified, or otherwise network-isolated target environment, including artifact transfer procedures and post-deployment verification.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g. Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes) including security aspects (image scanning, runtime security, least privilege).
• Demonstrated experience integrating security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows (DevSecOps).
• Experience working under formal security and risk frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53/171, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, customer-specific cyber requirements).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ability to work across cyber, risk, engineering, and program management teams.