Systems Engineer Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology • USA NC Fort Bragg - Fort Bragg (NCC004), NC

12h • $144,500 - $195,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Developer Sr Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. As a Cloud Developer Sr Principal you will lead a team of diverse architects and engineers with backgrounds in PaaS, DevOps, Security, and IaaS operations in order to spread knowledge and practices. All in support of the Government Program Office’s global cloud and platform services environments. Responsible for the engineering and life-cycle management of, mostly cloud-based, platforms to attain a high degree of reliability and security.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree recommended
• DoD 8570 Level II (Security +)
• 5+ years of related experience
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
• Adept Shell/BASH scripter
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and S3.
• 2+ years of experience working with container orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes.
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks along with an ability to offer and implement solutions to address these.
• Experience creating dashboards to track service health that appeal to both technical and non-technical audiences preferably with Splunk.
• Secret to start, must be able to obtain TS/SCI
• US citizenship required

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with identity and access management technologies and solutions.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies; using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions, specifically Splunk
• Any of the following: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or any Professional level of the above-mentioned certs where applicable
• 1+ years’ experience working with Gitlab
• Skilled at creating Ansible playbooks, working with AWX/Ansible Tower

Responsibilities

• Lead / manage team of up to 10 admins and engineers, responsible for communicating with the customer to achieve results and ensure tasks and projects are completed on time and within scope
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, performance for cloud-hosted applications.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal