Req ID: RQ178772

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Job Family: Cloud

Skills:

Cloud Based Services,Cloud Computing,Cloud Operations

Certifications:

None - None - N/A

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a cloud engineer joining our team to support the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) highly visible mission-critical systems. Customer is seeking a cloud engineer passionate about new technologies and solving complex problems. Successful candidate will have extensive experience engineering efficient continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and developing strategic plans to introduce or improve IaaS best practices.

This engineer will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of Linux-based cloud computing environments and supporting tools and infrastructure. Candidates must have a deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, Linux operating systems, and networking.

Responsibilities:

Provide support to operations teams during resource deployment activates across EPA Azure and AWS.

Provide matrixed-operational support to Unix Hosting team for assigned servers, including on-call rotation duties as necessary.

Create and maintain Gitlab CI/CD pipelines and project spaces.

Create new project spaces during customer onboarding process.

Test and upgrade terraform and cloud providers.

Convert often used Terraform code into modules to simplify deployments.

Identify OS specific deployment improvements that can be made to existing CI/CD pipeline. Collaborate with operations team to improve deployment times and capabilities.

Identify and review cloud services with potential benefit to operations teams. Collaborate with architecture and operations teams to evaluate services.

Produce detailed documentation on Cloud Operations and associated work to assist Unix and Windows teams.

Provide Service Now ticket support.

Attend ADC calls as a NCC cloud operations representative and provide technology and process guidance.

Attended EPA FRR calls as a cloud operations team representative and provide technology and process guidance. Implement required project updates to meet FRR requests.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: BA/BS

Required Experience: 5-10 years of related experience

Desired Qualifications:

Strong technical skills in at least one cloud computing platform such as AWS and Azure.

Strong technical skills in Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system

Experience with cloud infrastructure management tools such as Terraform and Gitlab.

Experience with at least one scripting language such as Powershell, Perl, or Bash.

Experience with cloud security and networking best practices.

Experience in a DevSecOps or Agile environments.

Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Strong communication and teamwork skills with a willingness to collaborate and mentor peers.

Cloud computing certification of associate level or higher.

Security Clearance Level: Ability to obtain and maintain public trust clearance.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated experience working with PKI certificates and X509 protocols. 

Familiar with Serverless framework (Lambda), Step Functions 

Demonstrated experience using task tracking and version control technology such as GitHub or JIRA.

Demonstrated experience integrating with Sponsor enterprise systems, such as Identity and Access Management, Auditing, Email, and hosted DevOps services. 

Demonstrated experience working with Agile Scrum based development team.

Preferred Skills:

Familiarity with Python development best practices.  

AWS Developer or DevOps Certification

The likely salary range for this position is $80,226 - $133,973. 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.

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.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.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.