Cloud Engineer Senior

About the role

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Cloud Engineer, Sr. 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, Sr. you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared Cloud Engineer, Sr. joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA. How a Cloud Engineer Will Make An Impact In this role, you'll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high‑quality, cost‑effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers’ operations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
• 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
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On‑call support will be required

Requirements

• Must currently possess Top Secret/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
• US citizenship required
• 8+ years of related experience

Skills

• Required: AWS serverless infrastructure components; willingness to learn cross‑domain services; working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash; multi‑platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service); GitLab CI/CD pipelines (typically centered around deploying or updating applications/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, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Desired: background as a system administrator; cross‑domain engineering; AWS Diode; Security+ Certification; understanding of access management and security groups (IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.); ability to write and use unit and functional testing; experience using Jira and Confluence; strong written and oral communication; customer engagement

Benefits

At GDIT: Our benefits package for all US‑based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as 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. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $124,093 - $162,150. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40. Travel Required: None. Telecommuting Options: Hybrid (St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA).