CI/CD and Platform Automation Engineer

Job ID: 2615384

Location: St. Louis, MO, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-07

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. Anyone without this clearance cannot 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.