Cloud Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph
About The Position
Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Cloud Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Cloud Engineer with proven experience in supporting enterprise web applications and software development teams. A successful candidate will need to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of Linux/Unix and a firm understanding of cloud technologies. Candidate must demonstrate on the job experience upgrading, monitoring, troubleshooting and implementing both on premise and cloud technologies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of related experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Tomcat
- Linux
- In-depth understanding of Linux/Unix
- Firm understanding of cloud technologies
- On the job experience upgrading, monitoring, troubleshooting and implementing both on premise and cloud technologies
- Experience with implementing and maintaining encryption technology (PKI authentication, Vormetric, and KMS).
- Demonstrated experience with web services.
- US Citizenship Required
Nice To Haves
- Experience with building AWS infrastructure or migrating private on-premise solutions to cloud hosting environments.
- Firm Relational Database understanding (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, Kafka)
- Working knowledge of CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible.
- Experience with scripting languages (Shell, Perl, and Python).
- Experience with SysOPs/DevOps.
- Ability to perform cloud performance analysis and optimize distributed cloud systems.
Responsibilities
- Support and troubleshoot web applications. This includes deployment of Tomcat applications using AWS and utilizing application and server logs to identify and resolve issues.
- Demonstrated experience and support for applications hosted in an AWS cloud environment, including deployments, patches, security checks, and maintenance.
- Upgrade and maintain operating systems and application software on LINUX (Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux) and Microsoft Windows platforms.
- Perform software installations, including support for COTS applications.
- Daily monitoring of the network, servers, cloud and applications to ensure full availability and optimum performance.
- Utilize software tools and logs to monitor network and system health.
- Track and manage system certificates, privileged accounts, and database passwords.
- Create and update documentation, including standard operating procedures, administrative instructions, After Action Reports for system outages, task status updates, and customer reports.
- Support for system and data security requirements, and documented system artifacts required for security certification.
- Experience with implementing and maintaining encryption technology (PKI authentication, Vormetric, and KMS).
- Demonstrated experience with web services.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 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.
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, 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 are provided or available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
