Job Description
Responsibilities for this Position
Location: USA DC Washington
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ222175
Type of Requisition: Pipeline
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI
Public Trust/Other Required: None
Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications: Skills: Model Serving, Reliability Management, Reliability Modeling, System Reliability
Certifications: None
Experience: 8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required: Yes
Job Description: Join
GDIT and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges. The
CDAO Advana team is seeking an
Site Reliability Engineer - Model Serving, to join their efforts in the
DC area. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoW military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.
This is a proposal with award expected June 2026. If interested, please apply as we are interviewing and making contingent offers now.
Duties include: Site Reliability Engineering Lead - Model Serving SME - Owns production reliability strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning model serving across Advana enclaves supporting Department of Defense missions, Joint Staff analysts, Combatant Command elements, and Senior Executive Service leadership.
- Defines service-level objectives, alerting philosophy, operational runbooks, and release safety patterns governing production deployment of model artifacts across multiple security domains.
- Establishes reliability governance across serving surfaces by developing operational standards, on-call expectations, escalation pathways, and incident response patterns aligned with enterprise DevSecOps practices.
- Implements reliability engineering methodologies using Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, GitLab Continuous Integration, VMware environments, and hardened deployment pipelines to maintain operational stability, mission assurance posture, and cross-domain readiness.
- Develops automated reliability checks integrated into deployment workflows to validate performance, latency, availability, and operational suitability of production-ready models.
- Leads coordination with Platform One, Cloud One, multi-national engineering teams, and cross-service mission partners to align reliability strategy with evolving architectures, security requirements, and mission priorities.
- Produces mission-critical deliverables including service-level objective documentation, alerting configurations, operational runbooks, reliability scorecards, incident post-action reports, and release safety assessments.
- Strengthens program value by advancing operational readiness, reducing mission risk, and reinforcing deployment consistency across all enclaves. Supports Tier-4 incident response actions by maintaining authoritative reliability artifacts required for rapid triage, operational continuity, and sustained mission performance.
Basic Qualifications: - BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- 8+ years of experience with production reliability strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning model serving
- IAT II - Security+
- TS with SCI eligibility
WHAT CAN GDIT OFFER YOU?- Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
- 401K with company match
- Educational Assistance and eLearning
- Flexible work week
- Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
- Rewards and Recognition programs
- Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging of highly motivated critical thinking
The likely salary range for this position is $169,604 - $229,464. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Travel Required: None
Telecommuting Options: Onsite
Work Location: USA DC Washington
Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at
gdit.com/tc .
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
PI285176635
Join
GDIT and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges. The
CDAO Advana team is seeking an
Site Reliability Engineer - Model Serving, to join their efforts in the
DC area. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoW military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.
This is a proposal with award expected June 2026. If interested, please apply as we are interviewing and making contingent offers now.
Duties include: Site Reliability Engineering Lead - Model Serving SME - Owns production reliability strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning model serving across Advana enclaves supporting Department of Defense missions, Joint Staff analysts, Combatant Command elements, and Senior Executive Service leadership.
- Defines service-level objectives, alerting philosophy, operational runbooks, and release safety patterns governing production deployment of model artifacts across multiple security domains.
- Establishes reliability governance across serving surfaces by developing operational standards, on-call expectations, escalation pathways, and incident response patterns aligned with enterprise DevSecOps practices.
- Implements reliability engineering methodologies using Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, GitLab Continuous Integration, VMware environments, and hardened deployment pipelines to maintain operational stability, mission assurance posture, and cross-domain readiness.
- Develops automated reliability checks integrated into deployment workflows to validate performance, latency, availability, and operational suitability of production-ready models.
- Leads coordination with Platform One, Cloud One, multi-national engineering teams, and cross-service mission partners to align reliability strategy with evolving architectures, security requirements, and mission priorities.
- Produces mission-critical deliverables including service-level objective documentation, alerting configurations, operational runbooks, reliability scorecards, incident post-action reports, and release safety assessments.
- Strengthens program value by advancing operational readiness, reducing mission risk, and reinforcing deployment consistency across all enclaves. Supports Tier-4 incident response actions by maintaining authoritative reliability artifacts required for rapid triage, operational continuity, and sustained mission performance.
Basic Qualifications: - BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- 8+ years of experience with production reliability strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning model serving
- IAT II - Security+
- TS with SCI eligibility
WHAT CAN GDIT OFFER YOU? - Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
- 401K with company match
- Educational Assistance and eLearning
- Flexible work week
- Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
- Rewards and Recognition programs
- Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging of highly motivated critical thinking
The likely salary range for this position is $169,604 - $229,464. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Travel Required: None
Telecommuting Options: Onsite
Work Location: USA DC Washington
Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at
gdit.com/tc .
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
PI285176635
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Part time, Work at office, Immediate start, Remote work, Worldwide, Flexible hours