Cloud Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Engineer with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• We are looking for a Cloud/Observability Engineer to ensure our systems are operating effectively at scale. As an Observability Engineer you will be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing the stability, scalability, and performance of our rapidly evolving infrastructure. Candidate will work closely with cross functional teams, including software engineers, product managers and DevOps engineers to maintain and improve resilient systems.​

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: BA/BS degree

• Required Experience: 6+ years

• Required Technical Skills:

• Documented experience developing and maintaining systems that allow for effective monitoring, logging, and tracing of applications.
• Experience regularly analyzing system performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Experience with detecting anomalies, troubleshooting incidents, monitoring system health and supporting compliance and security efforts.
• Documented experience with monitoring and alerting best practices within a cloud native environment. Associated tools: (CloudWatch, Icinga)
• Experience with DevOps/Platforms: Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience utilizing DevOps tools, such as GitHub and Jenkins, to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
• Regularly review telemetry data and make recommendations for improvements and cost efficiencies based on data.
• Develop and maintain cloud solutions in accordance with customer best practices and guidance.
• Demonstrated experience working with Agile Scrum based development team

• S ecurity Clearance Level: TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Location: On Customer Site, Herndon, VA

• US Citizenship Required

• After-hours on call rotation is a requirement for this position. It is normally one week at a time and rotates approximately every eight weeks.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

6 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required