Jr. Cloud Engineer
About The Position
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Jr. Cloud Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Jr. Cloud Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of a federal government customer. You will play a crucial role in supporting the migration of legacy systems to secure, scalable cloud environments, enabling modern, efficient, and mission-ready IT operations. Responsible for designing, deploying, maintaining, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of cloud environments. Handles the installation, configuration, and maintenance of cloud systems under the guidance of the cloud engineering team, while collaborating with engineering, development, and quality assurance teams to establish guidelines for automated monitoring and alerting protocols. Monitors, troubleshoots, and resolves any operational issues in cloud environments, maintaining thorough logs and operational records. Works with cross-functional infrastructure and engineering teams to identify and apply emerging trends and technologies in cloud solutions. Prepares and updates documentation to align with organizational standards and procedures related to cloud operations. Maintain compliance, security baselines, and conditional access policies Automate device provisioning and configuration using scripts and policies WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Experience: 2+ years of related experience
- Technical skills: Cloud computing (AWS and Azure), Python, PowerShell scripting, Microsoft Intune or other MDM tools, basic networking and security principles, and familiarity with programming languages such as C#, Python, or JavaScript
- Security clearance level: TS/SCI
- US citizenship required
- Ability to work onsite, support device lifecycle management and endpoint security, maintain compliance with security baselines and conditional access policies, and automate provisioning/configuration processes; up to 10% travel required
Responsibilities
- Designing, deploying, maintaining, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of cloud environments.
- Handles the installation, configuration, and maintenance of cloud systems under the guidance of the cloud engineering team
- Collaborating with engineering, development, and quality assurance teams to establish guidelines for automated monitoring and alerting protocols.
- Monitors, troubleshoots, and resolves any operational issues in cloud environments, maintaining thorough logs and operational records.
- Works with cross-functional infrastructure and engineering teams to identify and apply emerging trends and technologies in cloud solutions.
- Prepares and updates documentation to align with organizational standards and procedures related to cloud operations.
- Maintain compliance, security baselines, and conditional access policies
- Automate device provisioning and configuration using scripts and policies
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
