Cloud Engineer, Jr.
About The Position
GDIT is hiring a junior Cloud Engineer to join its Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, supporting an intelligence customer in St. Louis, Missouri, or Springfield, Virginia. The role provides cloud operations and managed services, including automation of the installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services. The engineer will help deliver cost-effective cloud solutions and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customer operations. The position requires a current Top Secret/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain Top Secret SCI with polygraph. U.S. citizenship is required. The role is hybrid and requires on-call support. The likely salary range is $97,750–$132,250, with compensation dependent on experience, location, and other factors.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of related experience.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Must currently possess Top Secret/SCI clearance and be able to obtain Top Secret SCI with polygraph.
- 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 and 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
- Experience with multi-platform integration connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, and Self Service.
- Knowledge of AWS serverless infrastructure components.
- Background as a system administrator.
- Cross-domain engineering experience.
- AWS Diode experience.
- 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 deployments across development, test, and production systems.
- Integrate with enterprise authentication services.
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure, including autoscaling, support for new services, and cost, authentication, and search optimizations.
- 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, hardening, documentation, and continuity of recurring tasks.
- Enforce security and reliability best practices and drive security initiatives such as access control and vulnerability testing.
- Work with A&A teams to maintain system 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, including some with Health Savings Accounts.
- Dental plan options.
- Vision plan.
- 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contribution options and company match.
- Full flex work weeks where possible.
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability benefits.
- Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
