Cloud Developer Principal

General Dynamics•Mary Esther, FL

43d•$102,000 - $138,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cloud Developer Principal supporting the Special Warfare (SW) community with focus delivering cloud-based solutions for the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) - Technology Integration & Support Cooperative (TISC), delivering development, integration, support, and sustainment through a cooperative composed of multi-programs, contributing partners, using commands, and other organizations. Additionally, you will support the SW TISC, providing Air Force Special Warfare focused systems integration, development, operations, maintenance, support, and training. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiators. As a Cloud Developer Principal, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an excited Cloud Developer Principal joining our team to ensure Special Operation Forces missions are successfully executed around the world. HOW A CLOUD DEVELOPER PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT: In this role you will work in unclassified and classified workspaces, and will: Work with a group of amazing people, collaborating on complex problems with a commitment to customer success Assist in the deconstruction and interpretation of requirements supporting team projects Ensure solutions and activities delivered are aligned with the strategy and vision of the organization Automate deployment of elastic, highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems within a commercial cloud environment. When needed, migrate legacy on-premises services leveraging established and well-accepted design patterns while developing new solutions using automation tools and adhering to Agile, DevOps/DevSecOps development and implementation best practices Provide continuous integration, operations, maintenance, support, training services and applicable baseline analysis for SW Command and Control Mission Systems to include associated wearable systems, unclassified and classified configurations, networks, interfaces, software, appliances, and specialty devices Provide continuous integration, operations, maintenance, support, and training services for SW cloud applications, enabling Special Operations Forces missions around the world Commit to staying abreast of both emerging technologies and evolving customer goals and objectives Engage with stakeholders and supporting teams to ensure customer expectations, satisfaction, risks and cost are managed Work to enhance team effectiveness, fostering a culture of unparalleled technical acumen to achieve maximum effectiveness in delivering services and solutions in accordance with customer and end-user requirements Advocate for and articulate Development, Integration, Testing and product sustainment activities, contributing to processes and outcomes that enhance productivity Adhere to standards, policies, protocols, procedures and best practices to embody "Best of Breed" Development & Engineering Participate in system design discussions for Future State, Concepts, and planned or active Development & Engineering projects Participate in strategic engagements and events, as required Brief stakeholders on planned and active projects and activities

Requirements

5+ years of combined DoD and/or Commercial industry IT experience
Two (2) of the five (5) years' experience must be implementing/sustaining enterprise-level solutions in a production cloud environment
Understanding of DoD and Air Force Special Operation
Working knowledge of many IT technologies is crucial for success, examples include: Firewalls: Forcepoint, Apache Tomcat AWS Cloud Computing Technologies/Services/Techniques: Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation Scripts, Ansible Playbooks, Command Line Interface, Containerization (Docker), Postfix, Bind Scripting: Jenkins, Bash Identity Access Management/Active Directory: KeyCloak, Windows Active Directory, Red Hat Single Sign On, Public Key Infrastructure, certificates Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL), Windows GitLab, GitHub
Requires a highly experienced and working knowledge of Cloud-based IaaS technologies and service delivery models
Strong knowledge of IT Development, Engineering, Integration & Testing processes
Strong understanding of DoD Cyber Security standards including Security Technical Implementation Guides, SCAP, Risk Management Framework
Familiarity with Department of Defense Architecture Framework viewpoints
Ability to successfully work independently as well as within team settings
Excellent communication skills
Must have a SECRET clearance (Interim SECRET acceptable to start) with the ability to obtain a TOP SECRET with SCI eligibility (TS/SCI)
The ability to think and operate independently as well within group and/or team environments
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to research and present solutions
Bachelor of Science degree in an IT field, or equivalent Technical Training, Certifications and experience
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Current 8140 Information Assurance certification (minimum Sec+ CE)
US Citizenship

Nice To Haves

Linux+

Responsibilities

Work with a group of amazing people, collaborating on complex problems with a commitment to customer success
Assist in the deconstruction and interpretation of requirements supporting team projects
Ensure solutions and activities delivered are aligned with the strategy and vision of the organization
Automate deployment of elastic, highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems within a commercial cloud environment.
When needed, migrate legacy on-premises services leveraging established and well-accepted design patterns while developing new solutions using automation tools and adhering to Agile, DevOps/DevSecOps development and implementation best practices
Provide continuous integration, operations, maintenance, support, training services and applicable baseline analysis for SW Command and Control Mission Systems to include associated wearable systems, unclassified and classified configurations, networks, interfaces, software, appliances, and specialty devices
Provide continuous integration, operations, maintenance, support, and training services for SW cloud applications, enabling Special Operations Forces missions around the world
Commit to staying abreast of both emerging technologies and evolving customer goals and objectives
Engage with stakeholders and supporting teams to ensure customer expectations, satisfaction, risks and cost are managed
Work to enhance team effectiveness, fostering a culture of unparalleled technical acumen to achieve maximum effectiveness in delivering services and solutions in accordance with customer and end-user requirements
Advocate for and articulate Development, Integration, Testing and product sustainment activities, contributing to processes and outcomes that enhance productivity
Adhere to standards, policies, protocols, procedures and best practices to embody "Best of Breed" Development & Engineering
Participate in system design discussions for Future State, Concepts, and planned or active Development & Engineering projects
Participate in strategic engagements and events, as required
Brief stakeholders on planned and active projects and activities

Benefits

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.

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