Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Subject Matter Expert
The CI/CD Subject Matter Expert (SME) is the technical authority for building and operating secure, reliable, and efficient delivery pipelines across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. In this role, the CI/CD Subject Matter Expert owns the last mile to production. You will design, implement, and operate continuous deployment practices that move changes safely and automatically from approved to live, with policy, security, and evidence built in. Your responsibilities include release orchestration, progressive delivery (blue/green, canary, feature flags), automated rollback, post-deployment verification against SLOs, and end-to-end traceability in ITSM. Youll make deployments predictable for executives, painless for engineers, invisible to end users, and auditable for compliance. You will align day-to-day practices to federal frameworks (NIST RMF/CSF, Zero Trust/TIC 3.0, SSDF) and sustain ATO requirements through automation.
Timeline:This is a contingent posting, expected to start in August, 2026
HOW the CI/CD SME WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
You will replace legacy deployment practices with gated, observable, and reversible deployments that run without drama. By baking risk controls into the pipeline, pre-prod contract tests, change approvals as code, traffic shaping, health checks, and error-budget-aware promotion, you will cut change failure, shrink MTTR, and raise deployment frequency without increasing incidents. Youll standardize a paved road to production, so teams spend their time building features, not handcrafting releases; leadership sees accurate, real-time status and rollback readiness; auditors see consistent records and evidence generated automatically with every deploy.
WHAT YOULL NEED TO SUCCEED:
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
If youre passionate about making production deploys fast, safe, observable, and reversible, while meeting federal rigor and audit needs, wed like to meet you.
