AWS Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED)

AWS Cloud Engineer

The AWS Cloud Engineer will build, deploy, manage, and administer cloud infrastructure designed to deliver complex software products in a production environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Cloud engineering professional with significant experience in developing and deploying repeatable processes, tools, and cloud infrastructure that enable the delivery of software in and on-demand cadence. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration automation, deployment, and continuous integration technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust solutions that can keep pace with software development. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with cross functional team. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team to build, administer, and secure cloud environments, including hybrid environments, in a repeatable and reliable manner
• Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new cloud tooling and infrastructure that extend or replace existing capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineering groups
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements introductions systems and platforms
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Write and update technical documentation such as system documentation, training materials, processes and procedures
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization's capabilities

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands on experience configuring cloud VPCs, subnets, route tables, and gateways
• Demonstrated experience scaling applications written in Java, Python or other programming languages with Cloud Native technologies
• Experience deploying code in AWS utilizing solutions such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
• Experience working with cloud native technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and/or Serverless cloud technologies
• Experience securing cloud environments per NIST 800-53 security controls
• Demonstrated experience achieving customer accreditation of cloud solutions for highly sensitive system
• Active TS/SCI With Poly Required

Desired Qualifications

• AWS Certification: Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience with cloud technologies used with ETL and big data pipelines such as Glue, EMR, HIVE, Spark, S3, SQS, and SNS
• Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes or EKS
• Demonstrated experience using the AWS CDK

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The likely salary range for this position is $170,000 - $230,000. 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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Chantilly

Additional Work Locations: USA VA McLean

Total Rewards 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.

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