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.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .