Polygraph

GD Information Technology•Herndon, VA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Transform technology into opportunity as a DevOps Engineer Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. As a DevOps Engineer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of a secure customer. You will play a crucial role in maintaining critical production applications. Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base. Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base. Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources. Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles.

Requirements

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
8+ years of related experience
TS/SCI w/Polygraph security clearance
US citizenship required
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a strong understanding of software/application development processes and methodologies.
Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities.
Solid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment.
Required Skills – GIT, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch (Logs, Insights, Dashboards), EC2, ECS/ECR, Autoscaling, Elasticache, IAM, ELB, RDS, VPC, Secrets Manager, Lambda, Parameter Store, API Gateway, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Jenkins, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Containerization, Docker, Grafana, Loki.
Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with multiple programming and scripting languages - Python, Java preferred.
Understanding of access management and security groups.
Experience with databases (Aurora, Maria db, MySQL).
Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience.
Able to understand information systems and ensure accuracy of work.
Experience working with container images and platforms (Docker/Kubernetes).
Understanding DevOps/Continuous Integration, serverless framework.
Understanding of microservice design to ensure best practices for security and reliability.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills; shows tact with effective listening and follow through.

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary DevOps engineer for a portfolio of customer-directed applications for a secure customer base.
Collaborate with a highly-skilled, high-performing development team, as well as a wider customer base.
Drive the development and infrastructure of key team resources.
Utilize AWS services, the end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support day-to-day maintenance and development cycles.
Able to maintain status of operations at all times - perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis.
Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking.
Architect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
Establish job orchestration strategies and approaches, maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
Administer production, staging, test and development environments.
Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents, monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
Maintain operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Cloudwatch, Splunk).
Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health.
Drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
Integrate with enterprise authentication services.
Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
On-call support may be required.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
401K with company match
Competitive pay
Paid time off
Variety of medical plan options
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 insurance
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Personal accident insurance
Critical illness insurance
Business travel and accident insurance