Cloud Engineer, Jr.

General Dynamics Information Technology • St. Louis, MO

1d • $97,750 - $132,250 • Hybrid

About The Position

GDIT is hiring a junior Cloud Engineer to support an intelligence customer as part of its Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team. The role provides cloud operations and distributed managed services, automating the installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services. The position is listed as hybrid in St. Louis, Missouri, or Springfield, Virginia, and requires a current Top Secret/SCI clearance. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of related experience.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance; ability to obtain Top Secret SCI with polygraph.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Willingness to learn cross-domain services available at the customer agency.
• Working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Bash.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically for deploying or updating applications or services in OpenShift or AWS.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes.
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/continuous integration tools.
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, and virtual and physical infrastructure design.

Nice To Haves

• Multi-platform integration connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, and Self Service.
• Experience with AWS serverless infrastructure components.
• Background as a system administrator.
• Cross-domain engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS Diode.
• Security+ certification.
• Understanding of access management and security groups, including IAM, S3 buckets, SSH, and VPN.
• Ability to write and use unit and functional tests.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Customer engagement experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments across development, test, and production systems.
• Integrate systems with enterprise authentication services.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure, including building out autoscaling, supporting new services, and optimizing cost efficiency, authentication, and search.
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security- and system-related incidents.
• Monitor and analyze system performance, including server load and resource usage.
• Apply configuration management practices to maintain software revisions, security patches, system hardening, and documentation, and ensure continuity of recurring tasks.
• Enforce security and reliability best practices and drive initiatives such as access control and vulnerability testing.
• Work with A&A teams to maintain systems’ security requirements.
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validate their completion.
• Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
• Provide on-call support.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contribution options and a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed