DevOps/API Developer

DevOps/API Developer

Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) LLC is seeking a DevOps/API Developer to support mission-critical government clients. DevOps/API Developer will be responsible to design, build, and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines, API integrations, and infrastructure that power our hybrid environment. You will bridge the gap between our development teams and IT operations, ensuring seamless integration between our on-premises data centers and our gov cloud footprint (AWS and Azure). Your goal is to automate everything, build robust application interfaces, minimize downtime, and accelerate the delivery of secure, high-quality software.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines that deploy software consistently across local servers and cloud environments.
• Use DevOps tools to ensure local hardware and cloud environments are managed as code.
• Design, build, document, and maintain secure, scalable RESTful APIs, microservices, and web services to enable seamless integration between on-premises applications, cloud-native services, and third-party systems.
• Manage and monitor the networking, API request routing, and data synchronization between on-prem storage and cloud-native services.
• Leverage site-reliability best practices to ensure continuous service delivery, API resilience, and high-availability across hybrid environments.
• Embed security scanning, compliance checks, API authentication protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, SAML, API keys), and rate-limiting directly into the development lifecycle.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to automation, consistently identifying opportunities to replace manual workflows with scalable, programmatic solutions and automated API integrations.
• Exhibit excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between engineering complexities and business objectives.
• Maintain composure and provide clear leadership during high-pressure system outages, API failures, or production incidents.

Required Qualifications:

• Must have an active Secret clearance that requires U.S. citizenship. Top Secret/SCI preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
• Six (6) years of progressive experience.
• Active CompTIA Security+ CE certification (or higher DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II compliant certification, such as CYSA+, GSEC, or CISSP).
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong background in API engineering, including experience with API gateways, Open API/Swagger specifications, and web service protocols.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on scripting and programming capabilities (e.g., Python, Bash, Go, or Node.js).

About Capgemini Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.